Summary

Jens Ricke is Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Radiology at the LMU Munich University Hospital.

His research interests include in particular clinical minimally invasive oncology / cancer therapy, including the development of interventional radiology by means of image-guided microtherapy.

Ricke’s research group has pushed the development and clinical introduction of image-guided, micro-therapeutic interventions, especially in the field of oncology. Activities include basic research in synergisms of immune-oncology and interventional oncology, as well as preclinical development and clinical validation of image guided technologies and their respective outcomes in the according patient groups. A special research focus is on integrated diagnostics, combining the fields of interventional radiology, innovative imaging techniques, clinical data science including radiomics and artificial intelligence,  as well as preclinical research (dedicated cell and animal lab), with the aim to identify novel, clinically validated biomarkers for therapy guidance. As chair of the Department of Radiology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, his responsibilities include both diagnostic and interventional radiology in one of Germany´s leading University hospitals.