Colliding ideas for cancer therapy

5 Jun 2017, 10:30 → 6 Jun 2017, 17:30 Europe/London

Ceri Brenner (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))

A workshop bringing together STFC and CERN physicists with the clinical
community to present relevant recent work, find common ground and identify
cross-disciplinary collaborative research opportunities for improving
radiotherapy. Topics covered include accelerator design, novel imaging and
detector technologies together with routes for radio-sensitisation.

Monday 5 June

10:30 Coffee

Macroscopic Developments: Presentations 1

Big technology - possibilities for new accelerators, detectors and other hardware. What are the upcoming developments? And how can they be rolled out to hospitals, forreal clinical use.

12:30 Lunch

Macroscopic Developments: Presentations 2

Big technology - possibilities for new accelerators, detectors and other hardware. What are the upcoming developments? And how can they be rolled out to hospitals, forreal clinical use.

15:00 tea

Macroscopic Developments: Discussion

Big technology - possibilities for new accelerators, detectors and other hardware. What are the upcoming developments? And how can they be rolled out to hospitals, forreal clinical use.

Tuesday 6 June

Microscopic Developments: Presentations

Developments in our understanding of what goes on at the cellular level. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and their combination. What role can the pharmaceuticals industry play?

11:00 Coffee

Microscopic Developments: Presentations 2

Developments in our understanding of what goes on at the cellular level. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and their combination. What role can the pharmaceuticals industry play?

13:00 Lunch

Microscopic Developments: Discussions

Developments in our understanding of what goes on at the cellular level. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and their combination. What role can the pharmaceuticals industry play?

16:00 Tea

Discussion: Conclusions