PhD Projects

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Department of Oncology holds a strong tradition for providing a creative and innovative research environment for PhD students in both clinical and pre-clinical PhD projects. All ongoing PhD projects are listed below.

  

Anna Cecilie LefèvreAnna Cecilie Lefèvre
E-mail: anna.cecilie.lefevre@auh.rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Karen-Lise Spindler

Title of PhD project:
"Towards improved chemo-radiotherapy for squamous cell carcinomas of the anus by targeting the molecular biological features"

Aska Drljevic-NielsenAska Drljevic-Nielsen
E-mail: askadrlj@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Frede Donskov

Title of PhD project:
Response evaluation criteria in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: Improved assessment of response and progression by advanced CT-techniques?

Cathrine OvergaardCathrine Overgaard
E-mail: cathov@rm.dk

Supervisor: Associate Professor Brita Singers Sørensen

Title of PhD project:
”Preclinical RBE for normal tissue damage established in in vivo models”

Cecilie_Rask_Klausen_IJ_99_PURE_.jpgCecilie Dorthea Rask Buskbjerg
E-mail: ceccla@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Bobby Zachariae

Title of PhD project:
Testosterone, cognition, ageing, and cancer – a controlled prospective study about testosterone and cancer related cognitive impairment in testicular and prostate cancer patients

Christina Maria LutzChristina Maria Lutz
E-mail: chrilut@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Cai Grau

Title of PhD project:
Biologically optimized radiotherapy with photons and protons for dose escalation of advanced lung cancer

Eva Boysen EbertEva Boysen Ebert
E-mail: evahasen@rm.dk

Supervisor: Associate Professor Peter Meldgaard

Title of PhD project:
Use of new blood test to identify lung cancer patients responding to targeted therapy. Evaluation in a large Danish multicenter study

Eva Rames NissenEva Rames Nissen
E-mail: enissen@psy.au.dk

Supervisor: Professor Mimi Mehlsen

Title of PhD project:
Internet-delivered Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for symptoms of anxiety and depression among women treated for breast cancer and men treated for prostate cancer – effects and mechanisms

vakant.jpgJosefine Tingdal Taube Danielsen
E-mail: josdan@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Bobby Zachariae

Title of PhD project:
Cognitive function in patients treated for metastatic melanoma with immune checkpoint inhibitors - a longitudinal observational study

LOUCAL.jpgLouise Bach Callesen
E-mail: louicall@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Karen-Lise Spindler 

Title of PhD project:
"Precision therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer by liquid biopsies to assess treatment sensitivity and resistance"

Louise Strøm LundsgårdLouise Strøm Lundsgård
E-mail: louiln@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Bobby Zachariae

Title of PhD project:
Sleep disturbance and its association with fatigue, depressive symptoms, and clinical response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients – a longitudinal, observational study

Maja Bendtsen SharmaMaja Bendtsen Sharma
E-mail: maja.bend@rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Cai Grau

Title of PhD project:
Radiation Therapy of Sinonasal Cancer

vakant.jpgMaja Halgren Olsen
E-mail: majols@oncology.au.dk

Supervisor: Professor Jens Overgaard

Title of PhD project:
Socioeconomic Inequality in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Survival

Marie Louise MiloMarie Louise Milo
E-mail: ml.milo@auh.rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Birgitte Offertsen

Title of PhD project:
The risk of radiotherapy induced heart disease in women treated for early stage breast cancer

Mette SaksøMette Saksø
E-mail: mette.saksoe@auh.rm.dk

Supervisor: Professor Jens Overgaard

Title of PhD project:
Dose-escalated radiotherapy for patients with hypoxic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma