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Translational research for planning and verification of ion beam therapy

Our research group focuses on further exploiting and developing the potential of proton and heavier ion beams in radiotherapy and to translate the basic knowledge that has been gained in research projects into successful clinical applications. Our primary research partner is the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Facility (HIT) at the University Hospital Heidelberg.

HIT is the first European hospital based facility for scanned proton and heavy ion radiotherapy and has started its operation in November 2009. The group has gained extensive experience with this treatment modality within a pilot project at the German heavy ion research center Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI) in Darmstadt between 1997 and 2008.

While our close cooperation with the Department of Biophysics at GSI is being continued, other projects involve the cooperation with the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPI-K), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague, the Aarhus University Hospital (AUH), and the Risø DTU National Laboratory as well as other partners.

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Group members

Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (group leader)

Gonzalo Cabal (PhD student)
Clarissa Gillmann (PhD student)
Dr. Steffen Greilich (post-doc), more information...
Klaus Gwosch (Diploma student)
Bernadette Hartmann (PhD student)
Nora Hünemohr (PhD student)
Grischa Klimpki (Bachelor student)
Dr. Harald Latzel (post-doc), more information...
Dr. Mária Martišíková (post-doc)
Martin Niklas (PhD student)
Julia-Maria Osinga (Master student)
Ilaria Rinaldi (PhD student)
Sarah Stefanowicz (Master student)
Julia Telsemeyer (PhD student)
Christoph Tremmel (Master student)

Cooperation group at MPI-K:

Dr. Michael Holzscheiter (group leader)

Sara Tegami (PhD student)
Stefan Sellner (PhD student)

Cooperation group at AUH:

Prof. Dr. Jens Overgaard
Dr. Niels Bassler
Dr. Jørgen Petersen
Rochus Herrmann (PhD student)
Dr. Armin Lühr (post-doc)

Former group members:

Benjamin Ackermann (now HIT)
Pablo Botas
Dr. Malte Ellerbrock (now HIT)
Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (now Research Group Applied Medical Radiation Physics (E402))
Dr. Oksana Geithner (now Siemens OCS)
Dr. Katrin Henkner (now HIT)
Lucas Huber
Dr. Clemenz Jacob
Franz-Joachim Kaiser (now KIT Karlsruhe)
Özgür Kartal
Felix Klein (now EMBL)
Dr. Alexander Krießbach
Florian Lauer (now TU Darmstadt)
Jan-Eric Meißner
Petra Reiß
Marina Romanchikova
Dr. Florian Schneider
Tobias Spalke (now Research Group Physical Models (E401))
Dr. Sima Qamhiyeh (now WPE)
Hans-Jörg Wertz (now University Hospital Mannheim)