• E0401 - Computational Patient Models - Dr. Kristina Giske
• E0402 - Applied Medical Radiation Physics - Prof. Dr. Christian Karger
• E0404 - Radiotherapy Optimization - Dr. Niklas Wahl
• E0405 - Medical Engineering - Gernot Echner
• E0406 - Novel Detection Techniques for Ion Beams - Dr. Maria Martisikova
• E0407 - Physical Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy - Dr. Peter Häring
• E0408 - Translation Research for Ion Beam Therapy - Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (in ch.)
• E0409 – MR-guided RadioTherapy – Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (in ch.)
• Clinical Research Group

Current projects

• Project: "Center of Excellence in Investigation and Teaching", http://www.heidelbergcenter.cl/medicalphysics/en/home/
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (phase 1: 2009 - 2014, phase 2: 2014 - 2019, phase 3: 2019 - 2024, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD))
  
  
• Project: "Chilean German Consortium for Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology", www.cgcompro.org
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (2017 - 2021, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FMER))
  
  
• Project: "matrad", www.matrad.org 
  Dr. Mark Bangert & Dr. Niklas Wahl
  
  
• HiDA, Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/en/)
  Groups involved:
  
  • Computational Patient Models (E0401) (Dr. Kristina Giske)
  • Medical Engineering (E0405) (Gernot Echner)
    
    
• Project: "Quantification of the biological effectiveness of proton, helium and oxygen ions in the spinal cord to optimize patient treatments." (2nd funding period)
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (funded from 02/2018 - 10/2022 by German Cancer Aid/Deutsche Krebshilfe)
  
  
• Project: "High-, moderate- and low-LET ion beams in the treatment of radioresistant tumors: Impact of beam quality, tumor grading, and hypoxic status on radiation response." (2nd funding period)
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (funded from 04/2020 - 03/2023 by German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG))
  
  
• Project: "Traceable dosimetry for small fields in MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT-DOS)" https://mrgrtmetrology.com/
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (funded from 05/2020 - 04/2023 by European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR)
  
  
• Project: "Adaptive Radiotherapie mit MR-gesteuerten IonenStrahlen" (ARTEMIS),
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (funded from 08/2019 - 07/2022 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF))

Former project:

• Project: "High-LET ion beams in the treatment of radioresistant tumors: Impact of beam quality, tumor grading, hypoxic status and tumor volume on radiation response"
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (funded from 01/2017 - 03/2020 by: German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
  
  
• Project: "Quantifizierung der biologischen Wirkung von Protonen, Helium‐ und Sauerstoffionen im Rückenmark für die Optimierung der Patientenbehandlung"
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (funded from 12/2014 - 11/2017 (three years) by: German Cancer Aid/Deutsche Krebshilfe)
  
  
• Project: "Metrology for MR guided Radiotherapy", https://mrgrtmetrology.com/
  Prof. Dr. Christian Karger (2016 - 2019, EMPIR)

• Project: SFB "Cognition-Guided Surgery", https://www.cognitionguidedsurgery.de/startseite/
  Involved groups: E0401, E0403, E0404 (German Research Foundation (DFG))

• • Project C01: Adaptive Photon Therapy in the Treatment of Lung and Liver Tumours
  • Project C02: Biological and Time Adaptive Therapy of Pancreatic Carcinoma

• Project: "MR guided Proton Therapy"
  Prof. Dr. Oliver Jäkel (2017 - 2018, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD))
  
  
• Project: "SPARTA" (Softwareplattform für die Adaptive Multimodale Radio- und Partikeltherapie mit Autarker Erweiterbarkeit)
  Involved groups: E0401, E0402, E0403, E076, SIDT (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FMER))
  
  
• Project: "Analytical probabilistic modeling for radiation therapy planning"
  Involved groups: E0404 (German Research Foundation (DFG))
  
  
• Project: "Low-intensity Therapeutical Ultrasound (LiFu)"

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