Crazy 8 Grantee
Heinrich Kovar, PhD
Heinrich Kovar, PhD Is the team lead for the Crazy 8 project that is tracking ewing sarcoma origin.
Dr. Kovar been head of the Molecular Biology of Solid Tumors group at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute since 1988 and scientific director of the institute from 2001 to 2017. In his scientific work, the molecular biologist currently focusses on the generation and characterization of Ewing sarcoma models, and on mechanisms of Ewing sarcoma plasticity as the basis for disease susceptibility and progression.
You cannot just neglect these problems and say okay, we’ve tried for a long time and we can’t do anything about it. That’s not helping the kids. You have to take the risk.
Heinrich Kovar, PhD