Department of Radiotherapy

2 PhD Research opportunities exist in the groups of Prof Lambin and Prof Vooijs in the Radiation Oncology department at Maastricht University as part of a large multicentric Marie Curie “International Training Network (ITN) named “Radiate” for period of 4 years. You will participate in international courses and work visit in labs and companies within the network (UK, France Germany Switzerland). project description coming soon !

TALKING ABOUT LUNG AND PANCREATIC CANCERS Published November 07, 2014 by Worldwide Cancer Research November marks the start of two separate month long awareness campaigns, for lung cancer and pancreatic cancer. Two cancers which seem very different, but which are similar in some very important ways. And both desperately need more research. Read More here

A Worldwide cancer research grant has been obtained to study the efficacy of the hypoxia-activated bioreductive prodrug TH-302 in combination with radiotherapy on esophageal tumors. We will investigate the therapeutic impact of TH-302 on radiotherapy using a panel of human esophageal tumor models, to prove that TH-302 efficacy is dependent on the tumor oxygenation status and we will evaluate the value of non-invasive hypoxia PET imaging to predict TH-302 treatment efficacy. A