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Lifetime Achievement Award

Ekkehard Dikomey Laboratory of Radiobiology & Experimental Radiation oncology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Ekkehard Dikomey studied physics at the University of Hamburg and completed his diploma in 1976. This was followed by a PhD at the Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology at the University Hospital of Hamburg-Eppendorf under Prof. Horst Jung. The topic of his researchwas ‘Effect of hyperthermia onDNA repair’. He remained at this institute and became a group leader in 1985. His habilitation ended in 1996 with the research title ‘Impact of DNA Repair on Cellular Radiosensitivity’. In 2000 he became interim Director of the institute which was converted into the Department of Radiobiology & Experimental Radiooncology. He was confirmed in the position in 2002. The topic of research of this department was ‘Double-strand break repair in tumours: molecular mechanisms and targeting’. He has to date published over 120 peer- reviewed papers and raised about 10M € for research. He retired from this position in 2015. Since then he is a guest professor at the Department of Radiotherapy and Radio Oncology at the University of Marburg headed by Prof. Rita Engenhart- Cabillic. Hewas a boardmember of several societies such as the IARR, DEGRO, DGDR,

GBS, where he was elected as a President from 2012 to 2014. Ekkehard also worked in several scientific committees such as the organising committee of the Wolfsberg Meeting on Molecular Radiation Biology/Oncology from 1997 until 2015. At present he is the speaker of the German Competence Network for Radiation Research, which is an advisory board for the German Government.

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