Workshop Individual Response to Ionizing Radiation Date: September 1-2 2022  Workshop program

Entrance to KVA possible from 08:30

Speakers: please bring your presentation on USB sticks and deliver to the IT operator before your session


Introductory lecture

09:00-09:30 Can and should radiological protection be individualised? Simon Bouffler


Session 1 – Factors influencing the risk of tissue effects

Chairperson: Pamela Akuwudike

09:30-10:00 Incidence and mechanisms of normal tissue reactions to radiotherapy Claudia Rübe


10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break


10:30-11:00 Use of GWAS to predict individual patient response Catharine West

11:00-11:30 Functional assays to predict individual patient response Michel Bourguignon

11:30-12:00 How much can radiotherapy benefit from biomarkers of normal tissue response to radiotherapy?  

                     Navita Somaiah


12:00-13:00 Lunch break


Session 2 - Factors influencing the risk of late and stochastic effects

Chairperson: Milagrosa Lopez-Riego

13:00-13:30 Individual risk of radiogenic non-cancer effects Nobuyuki Hamada

13:30-14:00 Genetic factors influencing individual risk of radiogenic cancer Preetha Rajaraman

14:00-14:30 Age-related variation in radiogenic cancer risk (including childhood CT studies) Michael Hauptmann


14:30-15:00 Coffee break


15:00-15:30 Sex-related variation in radiogenic cancer risk Kyoji Furukawa

15:30-16:00 Life-style factors influencing individual risk of radiogenic cancer and risk transfer between populations
                     Andrzej Wojcik

16:00-17:00 General discussion Moderator: Simon Bouffler


Thursday 1st September - normal tissue effects Friday 2nd September - cancer tissue effects

Entrance to KVA possible from 08:30

Speakers: please bring your presentation on USB sticks and deliver to the IT operator before your session


Introductory lecture

09:00-09:30 Individual tumour response – current challenges and opportunities Iuliana Toma-Dasu


Session 3 – Intrinsic tumour response - molecular and genetic assays

Chairperson: Mattias Hedman

09:30-10:00 Radiobiological assays for individual tumour response Iuliana Toma-Dasu

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break


10:30-11:00 Molecular and genetic biomarkers of tumour response Kristina Viktorsson

11:00-11:30 Individual tumour response and side effects - clinical experience on stereotactic body radiation
                      therapy of thoracic tumours Karin Lindberg

11:30-12:00 Radiobiological modelling of individual radiosensitivity Alexandru Dasu


12:00-13:00 Lunch break


Session 4 - Individual tumour radiosensitivty assays

Chairperson: Emely Kjellsson Lindblom

13:00-13:30 Role of functional imaging in assessing the individual tumour radiosensitivity Marta Lazzeroni

13:30-14:00 Genome-based models for individualising the radiotherapy dose Gabriel O. Sawakuchi

14:00-14:30 Role of radiogenomics in the individualisation of tumour response  Issam El Naqa


14:30-15:00 Coffee break


15:00-15:30 Individual tumour response to therapy - photons versus particles Michael Story

15:30-16:30 General discussion Moderator: Iuliana Toma-Dasu

Return to main page 18:00-21:30: Conference dinner at the Club Villa of KVA (same venue). Food will be served at 18:00. End of Workshop