MEDICIS-Promed Specialised Training on Radioisotope Production

4 Sept 2017, 18:00 → 8 Sept 2017, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Leuven

Thomas Elias Cocolios (KU Leuven - IKS)

MEDICIS-Promed is a European Commission funded MSCA Innovative Training Network on the production and use of radioisotopes for medical applications. Through this network, we offer two annual events: 1 summer school and 1 training event, such as this one in Leuven.

Participation is compulsory to the MEDICIS-Promed ESR and we are opening as many additional places for interested young researchers (master, PhD, young post-doc). This event also counts towards the obtention of the MEDICIS-Promed PhD Label.

This event can also be validated for 2 ECTS. A certificate of participation will be provided to participants. 

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MEDICIS-Leuven-intro.pdf

Monday, 4 September

18:00 Welcome BBQ

Everybody is invited to join for a Welcome BBQ at La Foresta on the Monday evening before the beginning of the event.

Tuesday, 5 September

08:30 Registration

1 Radioactive ion beams & lasers

Keynote presentation on the production of radioactive ion beams by the MEDICIS-Promed featured speaker Piet Van Duppen.

Speaker: Piet Van Duppen (KU Leuven (BE))

MEDICIS-Leuven-VanDuppen.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

2 Industrial approach to radioisotope production

Special lecture from IBA

Speaker: Jean-Michel Geets (IBA)

MEDICIS-Leuven-Geets.pdf

3 Primary radioactivity standards for novel medical radioisotopes

Speaker: Stefaan Pommé (EC-JRC-IRMM)

12:30 Lunch break

4 Patenting

The relevance of patenting and protecting one's ideas from the perspective of a law firm

Speaker: Ms Margaret Mackett (Gevers)

15:30 Tea break

5 Radioactive ion beam manipulations

Part 1

Speaker: Pierre Delahaye (Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds (FR))

MEDICIS-Leuven-Delahaye.pdf

6 Target materials for radioisotope production

I .- Introduction
(by Thierry Stora)

Speakers: Joao Pedro Ramos (CERN), Thierry Stora (CERN)

MEDICIS_Target_intro_Leuven_2017.pdf

MEDICIS_Target_intro_Leuven_2017.pptx

18:30 Networking cocktail

Networking cocktail at Den Hoorn in Leuven

Wednesday, 6 September

Excursion to SCK•CEN

Full day visit to SCK•CEN, the Belgian Nuclear Study Centre, including topical lectures and facility visits.

09:00 Registration & security

Since SCK•CEN is a sensitive research centre, we will need to proceed through security one at a time.

7 SCK•CEN and its activities

Welcome & presentation of SCK•CEN and its activities

Speaker: Nele Kesteloot (SCK•CEN)

8 Medical isotope production at BR2

Speaker: Bernard Ponsard (SCK•CEN)

MEDICIS-Leuven-Ponsard.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

9 ISOL@MYRRHA

Novel medical isotopes produced with the ISOL@MYRRHA approach

Speaker: Lucia Popescu (Belgian Nuclear Research Center (BE))

12:15 Lunch

Lunch at the SCK•CEN at your own expense

10 Radiation biology in space

Speaker: Dr Sarah Baatout (SCK•CEN)

MEDICIS-Leuven-Baatout.pdf

11 Experimental setups for MYRRHA

Site visit

Speaker: Rafaël Fernandez (SCK•CEN)

12 Radiation biology & microbiology laboratories

Site visit

Speaker: Dr Sarah Baatout (SCK•CEN)

13 Experimental setups for MYRRHA

Site visit

Speaker: Rafaël Fernandez (SCK•CEN)

14 Radiation biology and microbiology laboratories

Site visit

Speaker: Dr Sarah Baatout (SCK•CEN)

Thursday, 7 September

15 Radioactive ion beam manipulations

Part 2

Speaker: Pierre Delahaye (Grand Accelerateur National d'Ions Lourds (FR))

16 Collective problem solving

Part 1

Speaker: Fiona Reid (University College London)

10:30 Coffee break

17 Target materials for radioisotope production

II .- Advanced materials
(by Joao Pedro Ramos)

Speakers: Joao Pedro Ramos (CERN), Thierry Stora (CERN)

MEDICIS-Leuven-Ramos.pdf

18 Nanobodies for cancer treatment

Speaker: Dr Matthias d’Huyvetter (In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

12:30 Lunch

19 PhD student - Vloggers

Discussion panel with 2 PhD students who are also science vloggers ("Mientras, En Físicas" and "Draw Curiosity"). How did they get the idea? How did they start? What are the pitfalls? The Eurekâ moments?? Should any of us do it??? All these and more will / might / should / could be discussed...

Speakers: Daniel Perez (KU Leuven - IKS), Ms Inés Dawson (University of Oxford)

Draw Curiosity YouTube Channel

Minetras en Físicas YouTube Channel

15:00 Kayak / canoe trip on the Dijle river

Bring your swimwear!

Friday, 8 September

Laboratory sessions: Lab safety awareness

Hands-on experience with the facilities available at IKS and at the Ion and Molecular Beam Laboratory (IMBL), including HELIOS, the Pelletron accelerator, and the implanter.

Laboratory sessions: Lab session 1

Hands-on experience with the facilities available at IKS and at the Ion and Molecular Beam Laboratory (IMBL), including HELIOS, the Pelletron accelerator, and the implanter.

20 Practical group session 1

Practical session on reporting and collective problem solving

Speaker: Fiona Reid (University College London)

10:30 Coffee break

21 Practical group session 1

Practical session on reporting and collective problem solving

Speaker: Fiona Reid (University College London)

12:00 Lunch

Alma sandwiches will be provided

Laboratory sessions: Lab session 2

Hands-on experience with the facilities available at IKS and at the Ion and Molecular Beam Laboratory (IMBL), including HELIOS, the Pelletron accelerator, and the implanter.

22 Practical group session 2

Practical session on reporting and collective problem solving

Speaker: Fiona Reid (University College London)

23 Collective problem solving

Part 2

Speaker: Fiona Reid (University College London)

16:30 Tea & debriefing