Stefan Pfister

Stefan Pfister is Director of the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and Head of Pediatric Neurooncology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), working with Heidelberg University Hospital and the NCT. His specialisms are paediatric neuro-oncology, brain tumour genomics and molecular classification. He led the molecular subgrouping of medulloblastoma and ependymoma, work that redefined childhood brain tumours into molecular subgroups. He also co-developed the DNA methylation-based classifier for central nervous system tumours, reported in Nature. His publications are listed on PubMed.