Prof. Dr. Martin Sauer is senior physician and deputy medical director of the Clinical Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology and head of the interdisciplinary stem cell transplant program at the MHH according to JACIE.
He studied Human medicine at the Universities of Regensburg, Erlangen and Rennes. He trained as a specialist in pediatrics and adolescent medicine under Prof. Zintl at the "Jussuf Ibrahim" Children's Hospital at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His specialty training in pediatric hematology/oncology and blood stem cell transplantation took place at the University of Minnesota, one of the world's largest Facilities or Institutions for pediatric bone marrow transplantation. His clinical teachers and mentors included Norma Ramsay, John Kersey, John Wagner, Josef Neglia and Charles Peters. His scientific training in the field of experimental blood stem cell transplantation and adoptive immunotherapy took place under Bruce Blazar.
His work focuses on the transplantation of children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and cell therapy approaches with genetically modified immune cells and hematopoietic stem cells.