Physicist aims to develop new type of radiotherapy for cancer treatment
On 1 September, Physicist and PhD Niels Bassler will swap the university in Stockholm for Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. Here, he will work with medical doctors, biologists and other physicists on investigating the possibilities of treating cancer patients with a completely new type of radiotherapy called grating therapy.
New professor of experimental particle therapy Niels Bassler conducts research into why and how particle radiotherapy beams behave differently than conventional radiotherapy beams in connection with the treatment of cancer patients. Particle radiotherapy consists of charged particles that are poison for cancerous tumours – but unfortunately also for the surrounding healthy tissue.
Together with his research colleagues, Niels Bassler is working to develop a completely new way of administering radiotherapy, known as grating therapy. The idea is that instead of administering broad radiation fields, where the radiation also affects healthy tissue, researchers should use more very small radiation beams that are collected in the actual cancer tumour. Expectations are that this will lead to a far less intrusive form of cancer treatment.
Niels Bassler’s professorship is financed by a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
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Professor & PhD Niels Bassler
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine and
Aarhus University Hospital, The National Centre for Particle Radiotherapy
Mobile: (+46) 700 289 341
Email: niels.bassler@fysik.su.se