Timetable for Specialised Course on Heavy Ion Therapy Research

from Monday 4 July 2022 (08:00) to Friday 8 July 2022 (19:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022
AM
08:00
Opening session (until 20:20)
08:55 Video - HITRIplus Transnational Access  
09:00 Welcome and HITRIplus project Introduction - Prof. Sandro Rossi (CNAO) Nicholas Sammut Manjit Dosanjh Kristaps Palskis (CERN, Riga Tech University)  
10:00 Accelerators for Hadron Therapy - Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 NIMMS-SEEIIST Design - Mariusz Sapinski (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH)) Elena Benedetto (SEEIIST Association (CH))  
12:45 LHARA: Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications - Kenneth Richard Long (Imperial College (GB))  
13:45 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 State-of-the-art magnet technology. - Lucio Rossi (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))  
15:30 Marburg Facility - Kilian Baumann  
16:30 Student Session - Introductions  
17:00 Start of Biophysics in Hadron Therapy and LBL - Eleanor Blakely (LBNL)  
08:55 Video - CNAO The Particle's Travel  
09:00 Clinical considerations for hadron therapy - Piero Fossati (MedAustron)  
10:00 Proton Therapy Highlights of Inspire project advances in Proton therapy - Karen Kirkby (University of Manchester)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 Radiobiology for Hadron Therapy - Angelica Facoetti (CNAO Foundation)  
08:54
Opening session (until 08:55)
08:55 Video - HIT World Class Oncology  
09:00 Communicating Science - Antonella Del Rosso (CERN)  
10:00 Simulations as essential tools at every stage of hadrontherapy research - Alexander Gerbershagen (PARTREC)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Treatment planning - Niklas Wahl (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) Joao Seco (German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ))  
08:55 Video - MedAustron patient treatment  
09:00 Gantry Design and Beam dynamics - Marco Giuseppe Pullia  
10:00 Physics of Dosimetry - Lembit Sihver  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15 Lineal or Linear?- “How lineal energy is related to linear energy transfer and how it is not.” - Giulio Magrin (MedAustron)  
08:55 Video - Cosylab radiotherapy products  
09:00 Entrepreneurship - Ash Ravikumar  
10:00 CNAO virtual visit - physics-biology - Dr Marco Pullia (CNAO) Dr Angelica Facoetti (CNAO)  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:15 Moving targets and precision 4D-delivery; Arc delivery - Christian Graeff (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))  
PM
12:15 Patient selection, costing and business development in heavy ion therapy. - Paola Mella Maria Vittoria Livraga Mimoza Strikchani Sandro Rossi (Fondazione CNAO)  
13:15 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Knowledge transfer and intellectual property - Giovanni Anelli (CERN)  
15:00 Certification aspects of heavy ion therapy machines - Muhamed Junizovic (MedAustron)  
16:00 EU funding a general overview on the different types of calls, useful links, ideas how to structure an effective proposal, - Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)  
17:00 Demonstration of the installation of matrad - Noa Homolka (DKFZ) Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Niklas Wahl (DKFZ)  
17:20 Student Session - Networking  
12:30 Monte Carlo Dose Calculations - Andrea Mairani (Heidelberg)  
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:15 Training The Trainers - MatRad - Niklas Wahl (DKFZ) Albana Topi (GSI) Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Joao Seco (DKFZ) Noa Homolka (DKFZ)  
17:00 Discussion on the masterclass content - Albana Topi (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)) Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
12:15 Imaging - Maria Giuseppina Bisogni  
13:15 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Hadron therapy control systems - Luka Sepetavc (Cosylab Control System Laboratory (SI))  
15:00 Student Case Studies - Beams & Dreams - Habiba Sallem (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg - HIT) Rita Viegas (University of Coimbra) Adam Steinberg (University of Manchester / University of Melbourne / Cockcroft Institute) Joseph Bateman (University of Oxford) Celine Karle (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ)) Kristaps Paļskis (RTU HEP&AT centre) Cameron Robertson (University of Oxford)  
16:30 Future Directions in Imaging for hadron therapy - Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Marco Pinto (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)  
17:30 Student session - Future prospects  
12:15 Introduction to MedAustron facility - Dr Thomas Schreiner (MedAustron)  
13:15 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 ADAM and LIGHT - Alberto Degiovanni (ADAM)  
15:00 External Beam Ablation Medical Devices - Adriano Garonna (EBAMed)  
16:00 Quality Assurance: Key aspects of safety in particle therapy to consider from beam to team - Dr Jeff Buchsbaum (NCI)  
17:00 Student Session - Wrap Up & Feedback  
17:30 Closing