External Funding
Medical Research Council (MRC)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) - RadNet
Collaborators
Professor Crister Ceberg, Lund University
Dr Karl Butterworth, Queen's University Belfast
Dr Jason Parsons, University of Liverpool
Dr Betina Børresen, University of Copenhagen
Dr Anders E Hansen, Technical University of Denmark
Professor Constantinos Koumenis, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Amir Abdollahi, University of Heidelberg
Professor George D. Jones, University of Leicester
Kristoffer Petersson
PhD
MRC Investigator & Group Leader - FLASH Radiation
RESEARCH SUMMARY
FLASH radiation is a novel radiotherapy technique that show great potential in improving cancer treatment. However, very little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the highly beneficial FLASH effect. The research group aims to identify these mechanisms, explain the effect, and to find the optimal way of implementing the technique in clinical practice.
BIOGRAPHY
Kristoffer is a Medical physicist from Helsingborg, Sweden, and holds a M.Sc. (2009) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Medical Radiation Physics from Lund University, Sweden. Kristoffer enjoyed a Post-doc period (2014-2017) working on FLASH radiation at CHUV, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lately, he has worked as a clinical medical physicist (2017-2019) and started his own research group in FLASH radiotherapy (2017-) at Skåne University Hospital. Recently, Kristoffer accepted the position as Group leader of the newly created research group "Physics and Biology of FLASH Radiation" in the Department of Oncology.
GROUP MEMBERS
Christian Cooper, Postdoctoral Researcher
Lana Hendrawan, Research Assistant
Nathalie Lövgren, DPhil Student
Salomé Paillas, Postdoctoral Researcher
Jia-Ling Ruan, Postdoctoral Researcher
Sovan Sarkar, Postdoctoral Researcher
Edward Taylor, DPhil Student
Iain Tullis, Postdoctoral Researcher & Lab manager
Key publications
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Journal article
Vozenin M-C. et al, (2019), Clin Cancer Res, 25, 35 - 42
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Montay-Gruel P. et al, (2017), Radiother Oncol, 124, 365 - 369
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Petersson K. et al, (2017), Med Phys, 44, 1157 - 1167
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Lempart M. et al, (2019), Radiother Oncol, 139, 40 - 45
Recent publications
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Journal article
Cooper CR. et al, (2023), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24, 7195 - 7195
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Adrian G. et al, (2022), Expert Rev Mol Med, 24
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Cooper CR. et al, (2022), Br J Radiol
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The importance of hypoxia in radiotherapy for the immune response, metastatic potential and FLASH-RT
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OLCINA DEL MOLINO M. et al, (2021), International Journal of Radiation Biology
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Journal article
Ruan J-L. et al, (2021), Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys