Medical University Graz
Graz, Styria
Thomas Brunner is the Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the medical University of Graz, Austria. He studied medicine in Erlangen until 1995 and at the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France. He then took up an activity in radiotherapy at the University of Erlangen. With a DFG grant, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the US from 2001 onwards at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he studied molecular mechanisms of radiation sensitivity of pancreatic cancer. After returning to the University of Erlangen in 2004, he passed his specialty board exam and he earned his habilitation in 2005. From 2007 to 2012, he served as Honorary Consultant and also led a research group at the University of Oxford at the Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology. His research focus there was the interaction of tumor cells with the tumor milieu. As Professor of Translational Clinical Oncology, he also led the Masters course in Radiation Biology. He then became chief physician at the Department of Radiation Therapy of the University Hospital Freiburg before moving to Magdeburg to chair the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Otto-von-Guericke-University. In March 2022 he became the Chair of Radiation Oncology at the Medical University of Graz in Austria.
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