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Claudius Regaud Award

Dirk De Ruysscher Maastro clinic Maastricht, the Netherlands

Dirk De Ruysscher earned his medical degree at the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1986, and became Radiation Oncologist at the same university in 1991. In 1992, he obtained his PhD thesis at the University of Leuven on the influence of radiotherapy on immunity. He currently heads the Division Maastro Clinical Trials as well as Proton Therapy Research at ZON-PTC (Proton Therapy South-East Netherlands), is coordinator of the biobank project at Maastro Clinic, which includes now over 10000 patients and heads the Dutch Platform for Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer. He is full Professor of Respiratory Oncology/ Radiation Oncology at the Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is specialised in lung cancer in which he pioneered the integration of molecular imaging in radiation treatment planning and individualised radiotherapy schedules. He has coordinated work packages in several academic international (EU), Dutch and Belgian research projects, as well as collaborations with industrial partners.

and was or is the study coordinator of 9 phase I studies, 22 phase II and 6 phase III trials, dealing with individualised radiation-dose escalation, combining targeted agents with radiotherapy, the development of new PET tracers, molecular pathways involved in radiation damage, individualised radiotherapy, proton therapy, meta-analyses, cost- effectiveness, immune therapy and PCI. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed Wi-1 papers and chapters in several scientific books.

Dirk has supervised many PhD projects,

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