Cai Grau MD, DMSc

Professor Cai Grau was born in 1958 in Denmark. He is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Institute of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University and heading the interdisciplinary radiotherapy research at the Department of Oncology and the Danish Center for Particle Therapy at Aarhus University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark. He is chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Danish Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC.dk) and director of the national research center DCCC Radiotherapy (DCCCRT.dk). Professor Grau received his MD in 1987 and defended his DMSc in 1994 at Aarhus University. His main area of interest is research in head and neck oncology, high precision and proton radiotherapy, and health economics in radiation oncology. Professor Grau is active in several national and international research collaborative groups, including the Danish Head and Neck Cancer Group (DAHANCA), and is currently chairing the ESTRO task force on Health Economics in Radiation Oncology (HERO) and the European Particle Therapy Network (EPTN). Professor Grau has served as the president of the Danish Society for Clinical Oncology, the Danish Society for Head and Neck Oncology, and the Scandinavian Society for Head and Neck Oncology. He was secretary and member of the board of ESTRO from 2007-2011 and member of the Danish Medical Research Council from 2008-2013 and chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Danish Cancer Society from 2012-2018. He has been the supervisor of 16 completed and 4 ongoing Ph.D. and DMSc studies within radiotherapy, particle therapy, medical physics, and clinical oncology. He has published more than 200 scientific publications.