In the fifth episode of "Mit Brain and Heart", the joint podcast by the FAZ and the Hertie Foundation, Prof. Michael Platten, Head of the Neurological Clinic at the University Hospital Mannheim and who specializes in brain tumors, explains this special area of ​​neuroimmunology.

He explains how the nervous and immune systems are linked and how it could be possible within the next decade to specifically attack existing tumors with a vaccination.

Lucy Schmidt

Editor in the "Life" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.

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