Dr. Irene Slavc is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist who specialized in pediatric neuro-oncology. Dr. Slavc received her MD in 1980 from the Medical University of Graz, Austria. She completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz. From 1987 to 1989 she conducted a research fellowship in genetics supported by a Max Kade Foundation scholarship grant at the Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Following her faculty appointment at the Medical University of Graz in 1992 she spent another two years in research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Since 1994 Dr. Slavc has been an attending pediatrician and associate professor of the pediatric neuro-oncology program, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests focus on translational lab research, intracerebrospinal fluid treatment of pediatric brain tumors, atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors, and metronomic and targeted antiangiogenic treatment of recurrent brain tumors in children. Dr. Slavc has authored or co-authored more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals.