Michael Baumann

Biography

At present Michael Baumann is Professor of Radiation Oncology and Clinical Director of Radio Therapy and Radio Oncology at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus and has treated cancer patients with radiation therapy since 1990. He is the director of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Dresden, and one of two co-directors at the Institute for Radiooncology at the Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), as well as director of the OncoRay Center. Moreover he is the founding director of the University Cancer Center Dresden (UCC) and speaker of the location Dresden in the German Consort for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK).

Research Interest

Michael Baumann research interests lie in Translational radiation oncology and radiation biology, Bioimaging and biomarkers for personalised radiation oncology, Combined radiotherapy with new systemic anti-cancer drugs, High precision radiotherapy including particle therapy, Factors determining radiation resistance, Lung cancer and other intrathoracic cancers, head and neck, brain tumors.