Medical PhysicsTwo Guest Lectures from Chilean Researchers

In June 2024 two Chilean researchers visited the DKFZ in Heidelberg. Thanks to the financial support of the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim Prof. Beatriz Sánchez Nieto from our partner university, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC), could visit the DKFZ for one week. During her stay, Prof. Sánchez Nieto could chair Session 6 about “In-vitro and in-vivo FLASH studies” which took place on June 19th 2024 as part of the FLASH Workshop 2024, organized by Prof. Seco (Head of the Division of Biomedical Physics in Radiation Oncology). Furthermore, she was invited to speak at the hybrid Medical Physics Seminar with a talk on Analytical model for personalized photon peripheral dose calculation in radiotherapy: second cancer estimation and impact on the immune system can now be considered in a clinical setting.

On June 26th 2024, Rosario Astaburuaga-García (Alumna in Medical Physics of UC and Heidelberg University and the Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology) presented her current PhD project about Single-cell analysis of radiation resistance in head-and-neck tumors: unraveling heterogeneity and molecular mechanisms during our hybrid Medical Physics Seminar. Rosario is a PhD Student at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.