Funded Projects (update June 2023):

• Project Title:
  End-to-end testing for dosimetry audit at light ion beam therapy facilities
  (part of IPACS collaboration)
  
  Principal Investigator:
  Prof. Markus Stock, PhD (scientific coordinator at MedAustron, Austria)
  
  Participating Institutions:

  EBG MedAustron GmbH, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
  PTC, Prague, Czech Republic
  IFJ-COI, Krakow, Poland
  Skandion Clinic, Uppsala, Sweden
  Proton Therapy Center, Trento, Italy
  
  Status:
  Project completed; 
  Publication: Acta Oncologica, ISSN: 0284-186X (Print) 1651-226X (Online), Harmonization of proton treatment planning for head and neck cancer using pencil beam scanning: first report of the IPACS collaboration group
  
  

• Project Title:
  Heavy ion minibeam radiation therapy: dosimetry and a first proof of concept
  
  Principal Investigator (Spokesperson):
  Yolanda Prezado, PhD (scientific coordinator at IMNC, France)
  
  Participating Institutions:

  QST, National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba , Japan
  Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germnany
  IMNC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  ALBA synchrotron, Cells, Spain
  Orsay, Proton Therapy Center, Institute Curie, France
  
  Status:
  Project completed;
  Publication: Cancers (Basel). 2021 Mar; 13(6): 1356. A Potential Renewed Use of Very Heavy Ions for Therapy: Neon Minibeam Radiation Therapy
  
  

• Project Title:
  "Proof of Concept Evaluation of Helium Imaging for Range Uncertainty Reduction in Particle Therapy"
  
  Principal Investigators:
  Prof. Reinhard Schulte, Prof. Joao Seco
  
  Participating Institutions:

  DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
  U.S. pCT collaboration (Loma Linda University, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. and Baylor University, USA
  
  Status:
  Project completed;
  Publication: Journal of Medical Physics, Experimental comparison of photon versus particle computed tomography to predict tissue relative stopping powers, https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mp.15283
   
  

• Project Title:
  “Individualizing and Optimizing Proton Therapy Consolidation in the Management of Lymphoma”
  
  Principal Investigator:
  Dr. Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Univ. of Florida, Jacksonville, FL., USA
   
  Status:
  Project ongoing

• Project Title:
  MECT-based SPR estimation in NN framework and calculation of range shift in the first carbon ion radiotherapy center in South Korea
  (part of IPACS collaboration)
  
  Principal Investigator:
  YeJin Kim, PhD
  
  Status:
  Project ongoing; 
  
  

• Project Title:
  RADGESS: In silico study for RADioresistance GEnomic Signatures in Sinonasal cancers (SNCs) experimental models after particle therapy
  
  Principal Investigator:
  Barbara Vischioni, MD
  CNAO, Italy
  
  Status:
  Project ongoing; 
  
  

• Project Title:
  A workshop to showcase prediction models in patient selection and health economic evaluation for proton therapy among patients with head and neck cancer and discuss diversities in decision-making policies across Europe
  
  Principal Investigator:
  Lifang Liu, MD
  European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
  
  Status:
  Project ongoing;