Awards & Press Release Archive
At EMUC 2025, Dr. Bürkle and Mr. Waibel were awarded the “Highly Rated Abstract” prize for their scientific contributions. The award-winning papers were “What matters most: Patient-reported preferences in prostate cancer radiotherapy – Preliminary results from the PersoRad Project” and “Correlation of Uptake in PSMA-PET with histopathological grading: Analysis of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 and [18F]PSMA-1007.”
DGS Poster Award 2023 - Raluca Stoian, M.D.
At the 42nd Annual Congress of the German Society of Senology, held in Munich from July 6–8, 2023, Dr. Raluca G. Stoian received the DGS Poster Award, worth 300 euros, for poster P130: Comparison of toxicity and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) as a boost versus simultaneously integrated boosts (SIB) after breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer.
In early November, Dr. Alexander Rühle was awarded two doctoral prizes from the University of Freiburg for his dissertation in the field of radiobiology of mesenchymal stem cells. A resident at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Uniklinik Freiburg, he is a fellow of the IMM-PACT Program for Clinician Scientists, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Rühle received both the Karl Joseph Beck Prize from the Rhenania Educational Foundation and the Prize for Science and Research from the ROMIUS Foundation. Both prizes are endowed with 3,000 euros.
Prof. Dr. Anca-L. Grosu, New Member of the Leopoldina
In July, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina elected Freiburg-based radiation oncologist Prof. Dr. Anca-L. Grosu as a new member. This election is considered one of the highest honors for scientists.
2018 High-Precision Radiation Therapy Award
High-Precision Radiation Therapy Award Goes to the Freiburg Department of Radiation Oncology Dr. Eleni Gkika, a senior physician at the Department of Radiation Oncology, received the 2018 High-Precision Radiation Therapy Award at the annual meeting of the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) on June 21, 2018, in Leipzig. She was honored for her work on the topic “The Role of High-Precision Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy in Gastrointestinal Tumors.” The prize, worth 2,000 euros (sponsored by Accuray GmbH), is awarded to physicians, medical physicists, and radiation biologists for outstanding innovations in the field of high-precision radiation therapy. The close collaboration between the Department of Radiation Oncology (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. A.-L. Grosu) with the Department of Medicine II (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. R. Thimme) and the Department of General and Visceral Surgery (Medical Director: Prof. Dr. S. Fichtner-Feigl) ensures the successful development of new therapies in the fight against cancer in the abdominal region.
Individual awards from the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) for researchers at the Department of Radiation Oncology
Dr. Michael Hettich received the DEGRO Prize, worth 1,500 euros, for his research paper titled “Combined immunoradiotherapy of B16 melanomas and immunoPET monitoring of the programmed death pathway.”
Individual awards from the German Society for Radiation Oncology (DEGRO) for researchers at the Department of Radiation Oncology
Dr. Constantinos Zamboglou was honored and received a cash prize of 500 euros for his work titled “The Role of PSMA PET/CT and Multiparametric MRI in Target Volume Definition for Focal Dose Escalation in Patients with Primary Prostate Cancer: A Planning Study.”
The Best of ASTRO 2016
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) selected the submission “Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of the PD-1/PD-L1 Checkpoint in Naïve and Irradiated Tumor-Bearing Mice” by Michal Hettich, Friederike Braun, and Gabriele Niedermann for presentation at its annual meeting in September 2016 in Boston. In addition, the paper will be presented as a “Highlight” at the “Best of ASTRO Meeting” 2016 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (in November 2016). At this meeting, only the most important and influential submissions from the ASTRO Meeting will be discussed.
1st Prize, Mobi 2015
The interdisciplinary Molecular Imaging Network, in cooperation with the German professional societies, promotes scientific exchange between medical and radiological disciplines and their national organizations: DGMP – German Society for Medical Physics, DGN – German Society of Nuclear Medicine, DEGRO – German Society for Radiation Oncology, DGBMT – German Society for Biomedical Engineering within the VDE, DRG – German Radiological Society.
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Dr. Hua Jing (postdoc in the Radiation Biology Section of the Department of Radiation Oncology) won first prize at the 15th Meeting of the Interdisciplinary Network for Molecular Imaging, which took place in Freiburg from October 14–16, 2015, for her paper “Imaging and selective elimination of glioblastoma stem cells with theranostic near-infrared-labeled CD133-specific antibodies”
Highlights of ESTRO 2015
At its annual meeting in April 2015, the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) honored the article "The extent of synergy between tumor gamma irradiation and checkpoint-blocking or T cell-recruiting antibodies" by M. Hettich, J. Lahoti, and G. Niedermann as the highest-rated paper.
The Best of ASTRO 2015
At its annual meeting in September 2015, the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recognized the presentation "Dissecting the Interaction Between Tumor Gamma-Irradiation and Checkpoint-Blocking or T-Cell Recruiting Antibodies" by M. Hettich, J. Lahoti, and G. Niedermann as one of the most outstanding contributions of the year.
Certificates
Breast Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF Freiburg
Colorectal Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Gynecologic Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Center for Hematological Neoplasms at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Skin Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Lung Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Head and Neck Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Pediatric Oncology Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Gynecologic Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Neuro-Oncology Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Pancreatic Cancer Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Oncology Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Oncology Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF, Appendix: Scope of Application
Freiburg Prostate Center
Visceral Oncology Center at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF
Center for Personalized Medicine – Oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg - CCCF