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Elizabeth Schepke
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Department of PediatricsAbout Elizabeth Schepke
Elizabeth Schepke is a researcher in pediatrics at the Institute of Clinical Sciences and senior consultant at the Childhood Cancer Centre at Sahlgrenska University. Her research focuses on children and young people treated for medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children, and how late complications after treatment for childhood brain tumors can be prevented and recovery improved.
Elizabeth Schepke was named Childhood Cancer Researcher of the Year, September 2026, read the article on GU.se
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40 years of follow-up: Incidence, diagnoses and long-term survival in children diagnosed with central nervous system tumors in Sweden
1984-2021
Elizabeth Habib Schepke, Päivi M Lähteenmäki, Kleopatra Georgantzi, Per-Erik Sandström, Per Nyman, Helena Mörse, Anders Öberg, Helena Carén, Magnus Sabel
Neuro-Oncology Pediatrics - 2025 -
Brain tumors in children - National population-based studies on classification, diagnostics and long-term
follow-up
Elizabeth Schepke
2023 -
Supratentorial CNS-PNETs in children; a Swedish population-based study with molecular re-evaluation and long-term
follow-up
Elizabeth Schepke, Maja Löfgren, T. Pietsch, Teresia Kling, C. Nordborg, Thomas Olsson Bontell, S. Holm, A. Oberg, P. Nyman, M. Eliasson-Hofvander, Magnus Sabel, Birgitta Lannering, Helena Caren
Clinical Epigenetics - 2023 -
DNA methylation alterations across time and space in paediatric brain
tumours
Anna Wenger, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Elizabeth Schepke, Maja Löfgren, Thomas Olsson Bontell, M. Tisell, Daniel Nilsson, Teresia Kling, Helena Carén
Acta Neuropathologica Communications - 2022 -
DNA methylation profiling improves routine diagnosis of paediatric central nervous system tumours: A prospective population-based
study
Elizabeth Schepke, Maja Löfgren, T. Pietsch, Thomas Olsson Bontell, Teresia Kling, Anna Wenger, Sandra Ferreyra Vega, Anna Danielsson, Sandor Dosa, S. Holm, A. Oberg, P. Nyman, M. Eliasson-Hofvander, P. E. Sandstrom, S. M. Pfister, Birgitta Lannering, Magnus Sabel, Helena Caren
Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology - 2022 -
Effects of the growth pattern of medulloblastoma on short-term neurological impairments after surgery: results from the prospective multicenter HIT-SIOP PNET 4
study
Elizabeth Schepke, Magnus Tisell, C. Kennedy, S. Puget, P. Ferroli, M. Chevignard, F. Doz, B. Pizer, S. Rutkowski, M. Massimino, A. Navajas, E. Schwalbe, D. Hicks, S. C. Clifford, T. Pietsch, Birgitta Lannering
Journal of Neurosurgery-Pediatrics - 2020 -
Stem cell cultures derived from pediatric brain tumors accurately model the originating
tumors.
Anna Wenger, Susanna Larsson, Anna Danielsson, Kirstine Juul Elbæk, Petronella Kettunen, Magnus Tisell, Magnus Sabel, Birgitta Lannering, Claes Nordborg, Elizabeth Schepke, Helena Carén
Oncotarget - 2017 -
Stability of patient-derived in vitro cultures of stem-like cells from high-grade paediatric brain
tumours.
Susanna Larsson, Anna Danielsson, Anna Wenger, Magnus Tisell, Magnus Sabel, Birgitta Lannering, Elizabeth Schepke, Helena Carén
Neuro-Oncology - 2016