Coen Rasch is Professor of Radiotherapy at Leiden University and Department Head of Radiotherapy at LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis in Delft. The departments of Radiotherapy of the LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf together form one integrated department.

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Coen Rasch is Professor of Radiotherapy at Leiden University and Department Head of Radiotherapy at LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis in Delft. The departments of Radiotherapy of the LUMC and the Reinier de Graaf together form one integrated department. 

Radiotherapy

The professorship Radiation Oncology contains the development of Radiation Oncology in it full depth. De vast majority of the oncological patients receive somewhere in their treatment radiotherapy. Radiation Oncology is therefore one of the main pillars of oncological treatment. My focus of research and development is at the common field of technique / physics and patient care. Main focus of research and development is now on eye melanoma treatment with protons which in The Netherlands is now started in the year of my appointment at Leiden University.

Appointed Medical Delta Professor on 14-11-2023

Prof. Dr. Coen Rasch (LUMC, TU Delft) - Professor of Radiotherapy at Leiden University and head of the Radiotherapy Department of the LUMC / RdGG. He researches and develops radiotherapy in its broadest sense. Radiotherapy is one of the most important pillars in cancer treatment. His area of interest is mainly at the interface of technology/physics and patient care, in particular the treatment of eye melanomas with proton irradiation. Due to its relatively rare application, proton irradiation is an area where many innovations are still possible; HollandPTC and the collaboration in the triangle LUMC/TU Delft/Erasmus MC have created an opportunity for innovative demand-driven development and improvement of knowledge and outcomes of cancer treatment. Together with TU Delft's TNW faculty, innovative research is being conducted in the field of radio(proton) therapy.

Academic career

Academic career

1990: Medicine University of Amsterdam
1996: Radiation Oncologist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital. Prof. dr. G.M.M. Bartelink
2001: PhD Free University Amsterdam, 2001: “Imaging modality and observer variation for target delineation in conformal radiotherapy”.
Thesis advisor prof. dr. G.M.M. Bartelink
2011: Full Professor Radiation Oncology University of Amsterdam
2019: Full Professor Radiation Oncology University of Leiden

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