Program

Schedule

Sessions

21 January

Session I: Overview, current status and challenges of protontherapy

• 10 min — Welcome Address
• 20+5min - Invited — Felipe Calvo, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañon (HUGM) - Proton Therapy: Clinical Horizon 2030
• 20+5min - Invited — Diego Azcona, Clinica Universitaria de Navarra (CUN) - Clinical research challenges in a proton therapy facility
• 20+5min - Invited — Maruxa Pérez, Sociedad Española de Fisica Médica (SEFM) - The expansion of proton therapy in Spain: professional implications and an opportunity for leadership
• 20+5min - Invited — Alfonso López Fernández, Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada - The proton therapy facility project at the University Hospital of Fuenlabrada

Session II: Recent Developments: International Experience & Challenges

• 20+5min - Invited — Alejandro Cárabe, Jefferson Einstein Hospitals, USA - Technology cost reduction methods & efficiency increase
• 20+5min - Invited — Oliver Jäkel, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany - Current developments in proton therapy
• 20+5min - Invited — Martina Fuss, MedAustron, Austria - Ion beam therapy at MedAustron: current capabilities, recent developments and future plans
• 20+5min - Invited — Anne Vestergaard, Danish Center for Particle Therapy (DCPT), Denmark - Enhancing Proton Therapy for Brain Tumors: Potential strategies for coordinated Variable RBE Implementation across Europe
• 20+5min - Invited — Lorenzo Brualla, West German Proton Therapy Centre Essen, Germany and IFIC, CSIC-UV, Spain - Whole-body dose Monte Carlo system for second primary cancer risk computation
• 12+3min - Invited — Antoni Rucinski, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences: Krakow, PL - Advanced Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry of Proton Radiation: New Directions for Proton Therapy Research
• 12+3min - Invited — Marco Durante, GSI-Darmstadt, Germany - Role of PTCOG in the particle therapy arena

22 January

Session III: Applied Research on Treatment Monitoring

• 20+5min - Invited — João Seco, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany - Harnessing Particle Physics for Real-Time Monitoring in Radiotherapy: The Promise of Prompt Gamma Imaging
• 12+3min — Alexander Pryanichnikov, Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany - Medical Physics and Technological Challenges of Clinical Implementation of Upright Image-Guided Proton Therapy
• 12+3min — Alba Meneses-Felipe, Universidad de Navarra - Dosimetric Impact of the Interplay Effect in Moving Tumors Treated with a Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy System
• 12+3min — Fernando Hueso González, Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC-UV - Empowering proton therapy research with tools free of vendor lock-in
• 12+3min — Ömer Nuhoğlu, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany - Development of a low-cost x-ray spectrometer for in vivo dose measurements

Session IV: Applied Research in Radioactive Beams and Detectors

• 20+5min - Invited — Marco Durante, GSI-Darmstadt, Germany - Treatment of mouse tumours with radioactive ion beams
• 12+3min — Pablo de la Fuente, CMAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Development of a Versatile Pulsed System in the Ion Implantation Beamline Enabling Proton Therapy Research at CMAM
• 12+3min — Benedetta Brusasco, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - The LINrem Project Solutions : LINrem, LINpass and NESTA in Hadron Therapy Centers and High-Energy Neutron Reference Fields
• 12+3min — Giulia Tosetti, Université de Caen Normandie, ENSICAEN, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Caen UMR6534, F-14000 Caen, France - Evaluation of a detector design to measure the superficial 2D dose distribution for skin cancer treated by protontherapy
• 12+3min — Anne-Marie Frelin, GANIL - Reconstruction of three-dimensional dose distributions measured in pencil beam scanning with a plastic scintillator detector

Session V: Applied Research on Dosimetry

• 20+5min - Invited — Carles Domingo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona - Challenges in measuring neutron fields in proton therapy: dosimetry, spectrometry and risk assessment
• 12+3min — Jorge Miguel Sampaio, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) - e Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) - High-Resolution Dosimetry to Improve Particle Therapy
• 12+3min — Amanda Nathali Nerio Aguirre, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (CSIC) - Performance assessment of the IEM-CSIC proton Scanner
• 12+3min — Ivan Lopez Paz, Institut de Microelectronica de Barcelona - Radiation-Hard Silicon Carbide Dosimeters for Electron and Proton FLASH QA
• 12+3min — Carolina Fonseca Vargas, IFIC - UV - Proton Range Verification Using a Multidetector Setup: Preliminary Results from the PRIDE Project
• 12+3min — Carla Riera-Llobet, CNM-IMB (CSIC) - First microdosimetry maps in proton therapy at DCPT
• 12+3min — Miguel Ángel Carrera, AVS - AVS developments for hadrontherapy

Session VI: Radiobiology I: Emerging Experimental Approaches in Particle Therapy

• 20+5min - Invited — Walter Tinganelli, GSI-Darmstadt, Germany - Carbon Ultra-High Dose Rate Irradiation: in vivo and in vitro results
• 12+3min — Paula Martínez Bononad, CMAM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Energy-Dependent Radiobiological Response of Glioblastoma Cells to Proton Irradiation
• 12+3min — Tiago Azevedo, Centro de Física da Universidade de Coimbra (CFisUC) - Biological Response of 3D TNBC Spheroids to Proton Beam Therapy: A Comparative Study with Normal Breast Cells
• 12+3min — Inés del Monte García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Characterization of a FLASH irradiation at the IMP beamline at CMAM in a healthy and tumoral breast cancer model
• 12+3min — Martina Quartieri, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Design and validation of a hypoxic chamber system for radiobiological experiments at photon and proton therapy facilities
• 12+3min — Jessica Juan Morales (Instituto de Instrumentación Para Imagen Molecular, i3M-CSIC - Live cell spectroscopy analysis for personalized particle radiation therapy of metastatic bone cancer

23 January

Session VII: Radiobiology II: Advanced Nanomaterials for Radiation Response Modulation

• 20+5min - Invited — Prieto Apra, University of Torino, Italy - Nanodiamonds for radiobiology: ideas and perspectives
• 12+3min — Belén Cortés-Llanos, CMAM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Cell Density and Nanoparticle-Mediated Modulation of Radiation Response in U87-MG Glioblastoma Cells under Proton Irradiation
• 12+3min — Joana Antunes, LIP/FCUL - Monte Carlo simulation of gold nanoparticle mediated DNA damage
• 12+3min — Adrian Sanz Galvez, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Complutense University, Madrid - Identification of Genetic Factors Influencing the synergistic effect of Proton Therapy and cannabinods in glioma cells using CRISPR libraries
• 12+3min — Teresa Pinheiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - Enhancing radiotherapy with gold-coated nanodiamonds using 2D cultures and 3D spheroids

Session VIII: Computing Techniques

• 20+5min — Pablo de Vera, CIOyN, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain - When water phase matters: its effect on the stopping power and depth-dose curves for proton therapy
• 12+3min — Pedro Arce Dubois, CIEMAT - On the advantages of using a full Monte Carlo simulation for proton therapy
• 12+3min — Angela Maria Henao Isaza, Instituto de Microelectrónica - Monte Carlo Modeling of Electron and Proton beams in FLASH Radiotherapy
• 12+3min — Declan Garvey, Instituto de Física Corpuscular, University of Valencia - Real-Time Proton Therapy Monte Carlo Simulations in Highly Parallelised Systems
• 12+3min — Raúl Ena, EMFTEL & IPARCOS, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Application of neural networks for modeling proton transport in biological tissues

Posters

• P1 — José Andrés Avellaneda González, Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Exploring The Limits of Pile-Up Recovery for Prompt-Gamma Imaging in Proton Therapy
• P2 — Marta Freire, Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (i3M, CSIC-UPV) - BGO-based PET Scanner for Dose Verification after Proton Therapy
• P3 — Mats Stauske, German Cancer Research Center - Prompt Gamma Spectroscopy for Real-Time Calcium Quantification in Proton Therapy
• P4 — Manuel Terradillos-Perea, Medical Image Analysis and Biometry Laboratory, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) - Integrating Dosiomics, Radiomics, and LET Maps for Predicting Temporal Lobe Necrosis in Proton Therapy
• P5 — Blanca Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Medical Image Analysis and Biometry Laboratory, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain - Uncertainty-Aware Simultaneous Synthesis and Segmentation via Evidential Deep Learning for Adaptive Proton Therapy
• P6 — Gastón GARCIA LOPEZ, CMAM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Phenomenological toy model for flash effect in proton therapy
• P7 — Florent Dougados, IMB-CNM - Cutting-Edge Semiconductor Detectors for Advanced Proton Tomography in Oncological Proton Therapy (PROTECT)
• P8 — Silvia Mena Fernández, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Flexible radiochromic films based on new Abstracts for 2D real time dosimetry
• P9 — Felipe Eduardo Zamorano Labbe, Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM-CSIC - tromg>Ultra-thin Silicon-Based Neutron Detector for Proton Therapy
• P10 — Francesco MAZZA-SCHUH, LPC CAEN, France - Microdosimeters for fluency rate measurement
• P11 — Marcio Jiménez Venegas, IMB – CNM, Centre de Microelectrònica de Barcelona - Novel radiation resistant detectors based on 4H-SiC for microdosimetry
• P12 — Francisca Afonso, LIP, BioISI - Toward Novel Radiation Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Boron Compounds
• P13 — Sara C. Freitas, IFIMUP, Departamento de Física e Astronomia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 687, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal - Synergistic effect between photothermal and proton therapy using plasmonic nanoparticles toward higher-efficiency colorectal cancer treatments
• P14 — Vital Ferreira Filho, Instituto Superior Técnico - ULisboa - Tailoring multifunctional nanoplatforms based on SPIONs and graphene oxide for theranostic applications
• P15 — Edgar Mendes, Instituto Superior Técnico - Synthesis of gold-coated nanodiamonds via green chemistry and their physicochemical characterization as potential radiosensitizers for proton therapy
• P16 — Pablo de la Fuente, CMAM-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - A Dual-Method Framework for Ionization Cross Section Calculations in Proton–Molecule Collisions
• P17 — Miguel Galocha-Oliva, Universidad de Sevilla - Impact of the physics models for proton microdosimetry in water
• P18 — Carina Coelho, LIP, BioISI, FCUL, CMAM - Proton Radiation as a Modality to Modulate Protein Self-Organization in Neurodegenerative Disease
• P19 — Carlos Ferrer, H.U. La Paz - Diseño curricular, habilidades docentes de formadores y actitud de rotantes/estudiantes en una instalación de protones
• P20 — Clara Isabel García García, Centro de Micro-Análisis de Materiales - Enhancing Proton Therapy Efficacy Through Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
• P21 — Manuel Ratola, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Instituto Superior Técnico - Experimental setup to measure time resolution of fibre detectors