Preface

The 24th meeting “Experimental Neuro-Oncology” again took place in Minden under the responsibility of Prof. Bernhard Erdlenbruch. The meeting, inaugurated in the early nineties, is an interdisciplinary meeting of the GPOH to join researchers working in the fields of pediatric oncology, neurosurgery, neuropathology, neurology, radiotherapy, pharmacology, biology and molecular biology and to discuss actual topics in neurooncology with a main focus in pediatric tumors. Various actual themes in pediatric neurooncology were discussed in detail. The mechanism of action and the use of various histone deacetylase-inhibi…