Scientific Programme
Day 1 · Friday, 4 September 2026
Educational Day| Timings | Event |
|---|---|
| 08:00–09:00 | Registration & Welcome Coffee |
| 09:00–10:30 |
Session 1 (Education) — Hall AParticle
therapy Physics: Fundamentals to Clinical implementation
Physics of Charged Particle
TherapySpeaker: Hsiao-Ming
Lu
Clinical Commissioning of Particle
Therapy Systems: Principles, Challenges, and Best PracticesSpeaker: Sung Yong Park
Managing Uncertainties in Particle
Therapy: Challenges, Strategies, and Clinical ImplicationsSpeaker: Young-Yih Han
|
| 10:30–11:40 |
Session 2 (Education) — Hall ARadiobiological Optimization in Particle Therapy
Carbon Ion Radiotherapy: Present
Practice, Future PrecisionSpeaker: Eugen
Hug
DNA Damage Complexity and Repair
Following High-LET RadiationSpeaker: Nagesh
Bhat
Clinical Implications of LET and
Variable RBE in Proton and Carbon Ion TherapySpeaker: Napapat Amornwichet
LET-Guided and Biology-Driven
Optimization in Particle Therapy: Methods and Quantitative Evaluation
FrameworksSpeaker: Taku
Inaniwa
|
| 11:40–12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00–13:00 |
Session 3 — Hall ASetting the Stage: Main
Conference Begins
1. Footprint and delivery
systemsSpeaker: Rock Mackie
2. Workflow Automation, Adaptation and
AI/ML IntegrationSpeaker: Francesca
Albertini
3. Understanding the biology of tumour,
microenvironment & of particlesSpeaker:
Marco Durante
4. Generating evidence for Particle
Therapy — Smarter TrialsSpeaker: Siddhartha
Laskar
Concluding Remarks / Q&A Session
(12 minutes)
|
| 13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:30 |
Session 4a — Hall AMasterclass
Range Uncertainties Reducing Range Uncertainty:
Emerging imaging modalities and Strategies in SPR Calibration (DECT,
Synthetic CT, Synthetic MRI)Faculty:
Tsi-Chian Chao
Managing Non-Biological
High-Density Materials in Particle Therapy: Challenges and
SolutionsFaculty: Donhgho
Shin
Motion and Interplay Management
(4D planning, repainting, gating, tracking, adaptive
strategies)Faculty: Naoki
Miyamoto
In-vivo range verification (PET,
prompt gamma, ionoacoustics)Faculty:
Taeko Matsuura
Session 4b — Hall BMasterclass
Hypofractionation in Particle Therapy: Breast Proton Therapy for Breast
Cancer: An opportunity for recalibration of organ-at-risk goals (20
min)Speaker: Qing
Zhang
Hypofractionated proton therapy
for breast cancer: Identifying patients who benefit the most (20
min)Speaker: Amy
Chang
Proton beam therapy for Breast
Cancers in India: Learnings from the last 7 yearsSpeaker: Sapna Nangia
Panel discussion: Addressing
challenges in PBT for breast cancer (30 min)Moderator: Nagarjuna Burela
Participants: Amy Chang, Qing Zhang, George Chiu, Tabassum Wadasadawala |
| 15:30–15:50 | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 15:50–18:00 |
Session 5a — Hall AMasterclass
Evolving QA Paradigms and Workflow Efficiency Session 5b — Hall BMasterclass
Hypofractionation in Particle Therapy: Prostate |
| 15:50–17:20 |
Evolving machine QA Paradigms in
Proton and Carbon Ion Therapy systemsFaculty: Wen Chien Hsi (20 min)
Evolving PSQA Paradigms for
Proton and Carbon Ion TherapyFaculty:
Ganapathy K (20 min)
QA strategies for online and
offline adaptive proton therapyFaculty:
Tan Hong Qi (20 min)
Educational Debate: Machine and
PSQA Measurement-Based vs. Log-File and ML-Driven PSQA in IMPT/IMCT —
Are We Ready to Go Fully Digital?Faculty:
all the above speakers + 2 more. Moderator: Tony Wong (30 min)
Summary of clinical evidence on
Proton therapy for prostate cancerFaculty:
Arun Goel (20 min)
Hypofractionation in Prostate
cancers: Few fractions, bigger impact — Indian ExperienceFaculty: Srinivas Chilukuri (20
min)
Protons for Prostate Cancer:
Where do we go from here?Faculty:
Vedang Murthy (20 min)
Panel discussion: Nuances of
treatment planning in Prostate PBT (20 min)Moderator: Sham Sundar
Participants: Michael Wang, Vedang Murthy, Arun Goel, Vysakh Raveendran, Manikandan Arjunan Discussion: 10 min |
| 17:30–18:15 | Elekta One Satellite Symposium- Hall B/C |
| 18:30–20:30 | Welcome Reception & Poster Viewing |
Programme details are subject to change.