FLASH Workshop 2025: The Role of Oxygen in FLASH Radiation Therapy
Welcome
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The FLASH Workshop 2025 from July 1st until July 3rd 2025 in Heidelberg at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) brings together medical physicists, biologists, clinicians and scientists to discuss the impact of oxygen in FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT).
The FLASH effect has been shown to be influenced by the amount of oxygen presence in the medium within the tissue. Increased tissue oxygen has been shown to reduce the protective nature of FLASH in healthy tissue. The underlying mechanism by which oxygen influences the FLASH effect is still unknown.
The FLASH workshop will allow for an open discussion of the ideas of how oxygen impacts FLASH-RT. Talks by our invited speakers will be supplemented by talks and posters of attendees. Therefore, we are really looking forward to your abstract if you want to actively participate in the workshop.
Program, Invited Speakers and Poster
Registration, Fees and Abstracts
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Registration
Start of registration: January 13th 2025
Early bird registration deadline: April 28th 2025
Abstract deadline: April 28th 2025
Confirmation of abstracts: mid of May 2025
Final program online: end of May 2025
Regular registration deadline: June 16th 2025
Fees
Early Bird Fee: € 200
Regular Fee: € 300
Student's Fee: € 50
Abstracts:
As indicated on the program there are several sessions dedicated to oral presentations of attendees. Furthermore, we also have poster sessions. Oral presentations and posters will be selected by the scientific committee based on abstracts. Therefore, we encourage everyone to submit an abstract to present your scientific work during the workshop.
Scientific Committee
Prof. Joao Seco & Prof. Iuliana Toma-Dasu
Prof. Dr. DABR. Joao Seco (Host)
Head of the Division BioMedical Physics in Radiation Oncology (E041), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Professor at the Physics Faculty, Heidelberg University, Germany
http://www.dkfz.de/en/medizinische-physik-radioonkologie
Prof. Dr. Iuliana Toma-Dasu
Head of the Medical Radiation Physics Division at Stockholm University, Sweden, affiliated to the Department of Oncology and Pathology at Karolinska Institutet
Professor in Medical Physics at the Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/iuda0736-1.187652
Prof. Dr. Marie-Catherine Vozenin
Head of Research Laboratory Innovation in Radiobiology Applied to Radio-Oncology (LiRR), Oncology Department, Medical Faculty, University of Geneva, Genova, Switzerland
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/crtoh/members/vozenin-marie-catherine
Prof. Dr. Emanuele Scifoni
Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA-INFN) & Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy
https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0189384/Didattica
Venue
Main Entrance at DKFZ and Communication Center on the left-hand side
© DKFZ/ T. Schwerdt
The workshop takes place on site at DKFZ in the lecture hall of the communication center. It is held in English.
Address:
German Cancer Research Center
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
DE-69120 Heidelberg
Contact
Please feel free to contact us by email to flash2025@dkfz-heidelberg.de if you have any questions.
Local Organizing Team
Sandra Casula
Division of Biomedical Physics in Radiation Oncology
Anna Moshanina, Marcel Schäfer
Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology
German Cancer Research Center
Im Neuenheimer Feld 280
DE-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Phone: +49-6221/42-3481
