Franz Zehentmayr

Franz Zehentmayr is a Senior Physician and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Salzburg Regional Hospital. His work focuses on advanced radiation technologies and clinical oncology, particularly in lung cancer and immunotherapy applications. He leads the Institute of Research and Development on Advanced Radiation Technologies (radART).

Research interests include:

• Clinical outcomes of chemoradiotherapy and immunotherapy combinations
• Optimization of radiation dosimetry in NSCLC stage III
• Applications of machine learning in medical imaging
• Molecular mechanisms of cancer progression

Recent work emphasizes:

• Long-term survival analysis in lung cancer registries
• Neural network approaches for intraoperative imaging
• Biological pathways in breast cancer relapse

He has led/co-led 2 major research projects including studies on miRNA regulation in breast cancer and radiation therapy protocols.