Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss, M.D.
Biography:
Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss is a professor of nuclear medicine at the University of Heidelberg and deputy head of the Clinical Cooperation Unit Nuclear Medicine at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. She graduated medicine at the University of Athens in 1988. She then joined the Dept. of Radiology of the German Cancer Research Center, where she completed the doctorate in medicine in 1990. In 1998 she earned the qualification for nuclear medicine. After her habilitation in 2004 she became an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Medicine and in 2007 a Full Professor (APL professor) of the Univ. of Heidelberg. She is a member of European Association of Nuclear Medicine, the Society of Nuclear Medicine, the German Interdisciplinary Sarcoma Group (GISG) and other societies.
The research focus of her is the use of molecular imaging with positron emission tomography in oncological patients. She is working on projects about the individualization of chemo- and immunotherapy and the prognosis of therapeutic outcome in particular in patients with metastatic melanomas and multiple myelomas who receive new treatments protocols like immune checkpoint inhibitors, proteasome inhibitors, kinase inhibitors or novel antibodies.
Methodological aspects as well as the relation between molecular imaging data and omics data is another current field of her research. She is active in clinical multimodal imaging including PET-CT and PET-MR as well as on artificial intelligence for automatic image segmentation and improvement of analysis of PET data with respect to standardized response evaluation criteria.
Overall, she has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is member of several Editorial Boards, reviewer for several scientific journals, congresses and grant proposals and has contributed to the organization of international scientific meetings.
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