Melanie Schranz, PhD

Bonifazius Tower A
18th floor, room 18.05
Phone: +49 6131 17 6712
Mail: melanie.schranz@uni-mainz.de


Research Areas

  • Health services research
  • Psychosocial care for cancer patients
  • Mental health of cancer patients
  • Quality of life research
  • Barriers to lay resuscitation
  • Qualitative research

Ongoing Projects

  • Update of the EORTC QLQ Reference Values Manual (EORTC RefVal)
  • Collection of data on health-related quality of life in CAR-T cell therapy with becucabtagene-autoleucel [trade name: Tecartus] in relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma (Tecartus)
  • Glioma patients in outpatient care - optimization of psychosocial care for neuro-oncological patients (GLIOPT)
  • Motives for using cancer counseling centers - the perspective of people seeking advice and referring physicians (MONUK)
  • Barriers to resuscitation by laypersons - The perspective of the emergency personnel (BaLaRea - SE)
  • Improvement of the supply of medicines to children and adolescents by increasing the safety of drug therapy (KiDSafe)
  • Development of an international questionnaire to assess patient-reported quality of life related to COVID-19 disease (COVID-19 QLQ)

Functions

  • Head of the PRO-Unit at the University Centre for Tumour Diseases (UCT) at the University Medical Center Mainz
  • Coordination of the Patient Participation Board (PPB) at the UCT Mainz