Anca Grosu

Anca-Ligia Grosu (* thirtieth April 1962 in Cluj-Napoca ) is a German radiologist and oncologist and university teacher at the University Hospital Freiburg .

Career

Anca Grosu studied medicine at the University of Cluj (Romania) from 1981 to 1989 . She then switched to the neurological clinic of the Harlaching Hospital in Munich for her specialist training and then to the Institute for X-ray Diagnostics / Neuroradiologist and the Clinic and Polyclinic for Radiation Therapy and Radiological Oncology at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich . In 2000 she became a specialist in radiation therapy and radiological oncology. From 2000 to 2006 she was a senior physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Radiation Therapy and Radiological Oncology at Klinikum rechts der Isar and completed her habilitation there in 2003. From 2006 to 2007 she did research at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Proton Therapy Center in Boston (USA).

Since 2007 she has been Professor (W3) and Medical Director of the Clinic for Radiation Medicine at the Freiburg University Medical Center .

research

Anca Grosu deals with biological imaging, radiation therapy and digitization in radiation oncology . She deals with particle therapy , proton therapy , radiosurgery and stereotactic radiation therapy.

Not all tumors (e.g. brain tumors) can be treated surgically and not all patients are eligible for chemotherapy drugs . For these patients, stereotactic radiation therapy is a treatment option. A small, delimited area is very precisely irradiated with a high radiation dose. Grosu has further developed this technique of stereotactic-fractionated high-precision irradiation (SBRT using a special linear accelerator or "Cyberknife").

The representation of organs is of great importance for the precise irradiation of tumor tissue. Grosu has improved methods of biological imaging to make the various areas of a tumor visible.

Grosu also deals with digitization in radiation oncology. Her aim is to develop a personalized radiation therapy that uses artificial intelligence to provide additional information on the biological properties of the tumors.

Awards

• since 2018 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Web links

• Member entry by Anca Grosu (with picture and curriculum vitae) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Anca Grosu at Google Scholar
• Anca Grosu on the website of the Freiburg University Medical Center

Remarks

1. ↑ Arne Grün, Thomas Kuhnt et al.: Re-irradiation for locally recurrent head and neck tumors and for prostate cancer. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt. Volume 117, Issue 10, March 6, 2020, pp. 167–174, here: p. 169.