Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, and Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO)
Heidelberg, Germany
My name is Dr. Maximilian Y. Deng, a PGY-2 resident physician in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT). After completing my doctoral thesis on the molecular characterization of pediatric gliomas at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), which was awarded with the Scholar-in-Training Award of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) and the Dr. Hildegard Dinter Lutz Award of the German Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology (GPOH). My current scientific interest focuses on molecularly-guided precision radiotherapy in patients with central nervous system tumors.