The Initiatives

OncoRay - Dresden

Centre for Innovation Competence


A center for Innovation Competence in Radiation Oncology was established in Dresden, in the framework of the "Create Excellence - Foster Talent" program of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Building on the international reputation and extensive research infrastructure of the Dresden group, this center will represent a new, future-oriented research effort in the field of radiation research in oncology which we have entitled "OncoRay".



Objectives


The vision of OncoRay® is to improve the treatment of cancer by means of biologically individualised, technically optimised radiotherapy. Radiotherapy has proven itself a highly effective method of treating the primary tumour, which can often be completely cured with the result that for many disease sites metastatic cancer, which usually represents the final, fatal stage of the disease, can be avoided. In contrast to other treatment modalities, radiotherapy offers precise spatial distribution of the treatment to individual patients. For these reasons, a replacement is unlikely in the foreseeable future. On the contrary, in the coming decades radiotherapy will be revolutionised through the development of new high-precision delivery techniques and the integration of new advances in molecular biology. This will require the careful interweaving of multiple disciplines, including biology, physics, and medicine.


Core Topics


Focus and Strategy of OncoRay® are aimed at the practical need for preclinical and clinical translational research in radiation oncology. Inter-dependent fields of inquiry with particularly high promise for innovation will be integrated into three complementary groups of scientists:
  • Biological and Molecular Targeting - Research group
    Improvement of radiotherapy by combining it with new types of specific biological agents

  • Biological and Molecular Imaging - Research group
    Exploitation of new spatial representations of biological functional activity in the tumour for purposes of individualised treatment planning

  • Biologically Adapted Treatment Planning and Delivery - Research group
    Transformation of the imaged-derived biological information into treatment planning of the highest technical level


Partners


OncoRay® is jointly operated by the following institutions:

Medical Faculty / University Hospital of the University of Technology Dresden

  • Experimental Centre
  • Institute of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Clinic of Nuclear Medicine
  • Clinic of Radiation Oncology
  • University Cancer Center

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Technical University of Dresden

  • Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Technical University of Dresden

  • Institute of Energy Technology

Research Centre Rossendorf

  • Institute of Bioinorganic and Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry
  • Institute of Nuclear and Hadron Physics
  • PET Center


Contact

OncoRay - Center for Innovation Competence in Radiation Oncology
Prof. Dr. Michael Baumann
Technical University of Dresden
Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Dept. of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology
Fetscherstraße 74
D-01307 Dresden
Tel.: +49 3 51 4 58 52 92
Fax: +49 3 51 4 58 57 16
E-Mail: michael.baumann@mailbox.tu-dresden.de 
http://oncoray.uniklinikum-dresden.de/

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Documents

  • Profile "OncoRay"

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     (URL: http://www.unternehmen-region.de/_media/OncoRay_Juni_05.pdf)