2024 PTCOG Annual Conference News
PTCOG 62, 10 - 15 June 2024, in Singapore, organized together with PTCOG-AO
Letter from the Organizers
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the PTCOG Executive Committee and of the Local Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to Singapore for the 62nd edition of the PTCOG Annual Meeting. Singapore was recently named the most beautiful city in Asia and will surprise you with its fantastic food and amazing landscape. With 3 proton therapy centres and 6 gantries in a population of only 5.4 million, Singapore is the country with the highest number of proton therapy rooms per inhabitant worldwide. A perfect location for PTCOG 62!
The conference this year will start with a two-day educational session followed by 3-days of multi-session scientific reports with several subcommittee meetings in between. The conference theme is “Advancing Particle Therapy Through Collaborative Synergies“, stressing the importance of collaboration in the field of particle therapy. We expect an outstanding scientific program covering clinics, physics, and biology topics, many plenary talks, and round tables for debating hot issues in particle therapy.
Owing to the exceptional growth of proton therapy centres worldwide, PTCOG reached now over 4,000 members and nearly 100 facility representatives in the Steering Committee. PTCOG 61 in Madrid reached a record number of 1,600 participants on site, demonstrating the growing interest and research in particle therapy. PTCOG has now 17 active Subcommittees that will report their activities in a dedicated session during the scientific meeting. You are welcome to join these Subcommittees any time. This will be the first year where the new Early Career Researcher (ECR) Subcommittee will be involved in the educational and scientific program planning, resulting in a higher involvement of the younger generations in the PTCOG leadership and in the meeting. We will also discuss PTCOG funding for small research projects and the future of the PTCOG Scientific journal, the International Journal of Particle Therapy, that just got the first impact factor. The Steering Committee will be called to elect new members of the Executive Committee and to decide the site of the 2027 PTCOG annual meeting in Asia.
We look forward to your participation and spending time with you in Singapore. We are sure that this will be an awesome scientific experience and we also hope you will enjoy the local flavour and hospitality.
Welcome to PTCOG 62!
Marco Durante,
PTCOG Chairman
Martin Jermann,
PTCOG Secretary
Michael Wang Lian Chek,
Local Organizing Committee
Youngyih Han,
PTCOG-AO Chair