Hadron Therapy Workshop: status and perspectives, plans for next generation facilities

18 Oct 2024, 00:30 → 19 Oct 2024, 23:00 Europe/Athens

Thessaloniki

Yiota Foka (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

There is a live webcast for this event, webcast link: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1431627

IAEA Regional Workshop on Hadron Therapy

Cancer  is a central health problem for our society and is, unfortunately, set to spiral, as cancer cases increase worldwide.

A large fraction of patients treated for cancer receive radiation therapy, most often together with other treatment modalities as a part of a holistic treatment approach. Most cancer radiation treatments, worldwide, are delivered with high-energy X-rays. However, hadron therapy, also known as particle therapy, using protons and heavier ions, is an emerging effective modality that has many advantages. Namely, proton and heavy ion beams can irradiate tumors by focusing precisely on cancerous tissue whilst sparing healthy tissue around it, making the treatment more effective than any other irradiation treatment, and in some cases the only option.

Due to this, the European Union, through its H2020 research and innovation program, is funding the Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration (HITRIplus) project supporting, technical advancements, transnational acces, networking, dissemination and capacity building in heavy ion therapy research.

Hence, HITRIplus supports a 2-days international Symposium on Hadron Therapy, in Thessaloniki. It will take place on the 18th and 19th of October 2024, in hybrid mode, and is free of charge. Event in conjuction with the IAEA Regional Workshop on Hadron Therapy under the Technical Cooperation project RER6039.

Over 30 world-leading experts in the field participate. They will cover a broad spectrum, from the principles of hadron therapy and radiobiology to experiences of the European running hadron therapy centres and their upgrades plans,  including specific indications for hadron therapy such as head and neck, sarcoma and others. Dedicated sessions will address pediatrics as well as emerging methods, such as combinations of hadron therapy with immunotherapy and FLASH therapy, highlighting also unfolding research avenues and the related necessary technical advancements on the accelerator and beam delivery systems. 

The presentations will be recorded and made freely available online. 

 

Agenda Hadron Therapy Workshop

Friday 18 October

Welcome Session

Convener: Dženana Husremović

1 Welcome from Ministry of Civil Affairs

Speaker: TBA

2 Welcome from Sarajevo Mayor

Speaker: Abdulah Skaka

3 Welcome from CEI Deputy Secretary General

Speaker: Nina Kodelja (Deputy Secretary General CEI)

4 Welcome from Regional Cooperation Council

Speaker: Sinisa Marcic

5 Welcome from UNSA

Speaker: Rifat Škrijelj (UNSA Rector)

6 Welcome from organisers

Speaker: Edmond Offermann

7 Science for Peace

Speaker: Herwig Schopper

8 SEEIIST: South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies

Speaker: Sanja Damjanović (SEEIIST)

10:15 Coffee break

Ion therapy fostering innovation

9 Ion therapy facilities: Scientific challenges and opportunities for industry

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

10 Beam delivery and gantries for ion therapy facilities

Speaker: Marco Pullia (CNAO)

11 GSI experience in ion therapy, innovations for SEEIIST

Speaker: Christian Graeff (GSI)

12 Cosylab a success story of a regional company becoming world leader - challenges and opportunities in SEEIIST

Speaker: Mark Pleško (Cosylab)

13 Discussion on business plan

Speaker: Leandar Litov

Experiences, models of cooperation, industry, academia

14 How a project can organize the relation with industry: HiLumi LHC as an example

Speaker: Isabel Bejar Alonso (CERN)

15 Openlab as model of cooperation of academia and industry

Speaker: Fons Rademakers

13:00 Lunch break

Oncology, patient treatment, with focus on the industry role

Convener: Marco Giuseppe Pullia

16 Oncology, patient treatment, with focus on industry role - Introduction

Speaker: Markus Stock

17 Maintenance of Radiological Equipment in Bosnia and Herzegovina — overview of current status and capabilities

Speaker: Adnan Beganović (UNSA)

18 Papageorgiou Hospital experience in oncology, academia and industry cooperation

Speaker: KARAVIOTIS Michail

19 SIPTC - the project and the perspectives for the oncology patients

Speaker: Janko Burgar

Saturday 19 October

Welcome to the industry day

Convener: Engert Tobias

20 Impact of technology-intensive procurement contracts on industry

Speaker: Manuela Cirilli

21 Research meets industry: the example of the Elettra Synchrotron

Speaker: Fabio Mazzolini

Accelerator Technologies

Convener: Mariusz Sapinski

22 Acceleration technology for ion therapy

Speaker: TBA

23 AISHa: an innovative ECR ion source for Hadron therapy facilities as first element of the SEEIIST

Speaker: Luigi Celona

24 LINAC technologies for medical purposes

Speaker: Holger Podlech

25 Superconductivity and new magnet designs

Speaker: Davide Tommasini

26 SENIS magnetic measurements

Speaker: Marjan Blagojević

27 How an industry may contribute to the next generation accelerator technology

Speaker: Elvis Janežič (I-Tech)

10:35 Coffee break

SEEIIST green distributed facility and hubs

28 Introduction on hubs

Speaker: TBA

29 SEEIIST opportunities for the Green Energy hub

Speaker: Sanela Klarić

30 CROSSBOW: Cross border management of renewable energies

Speaker: TBC

31 Green IT digital hub

Speaker: TBA

32 Animal hub

Speaker: Nihad Fejzić

33 Discussion on policies and strategies on green infrastructures

Speaker: TBC

Lunch break

Industry, B2B

Convener: TBA (University of Montenegro (ME))

34 BEVATECH GmbH

Speaker: Holger Höltermann

Research potential - the perspective of two proton therapy projects in the region

Convener: Andrej Studen

SEEIIST, FACE-TO-FACE

Convener: Sanja Damjanović

Training and education

35 Training and education opportunities at FAIR/GSI

Speaker: Ghosh Pradeep

36 CERN, Openlab opportunities

Speaker: Fons Rademakers

37 International Masterclasses at SEE

Speaker: Amar Kapić

38 Particle Therapy Masterclass

Speakers: Amila Avdić, Amra Ibrahimović, Mirsad Tunja