Online

FLASH results registry workshop

This workshop on the build-up of a FLASH consortium around data sharing and management will be held online over two afternoons: 

Day 1: June 6th 2023 1:00pm – 5:00pm (CET) 

Day 2: June 20th 2023 1:00pm – 4:30pm (CET) 

FLASH radiotherapy has become one of the hot topics in the radiation oncology field. While more and more data is accumulated, the complexity of this research field makes it sometimes challenging to keep oneself updated with the most recent and important results. Moreover, the difficulty to publish and share negative data might impact research effectiveness and increase experimental bias. These issues were raised by multiple researchers in the field during past workshops and ongoing collaborative networks, including the very successful ESTRO Physics Workshop on FLASH-RT. Building-up a consortium around data sharing, management and storage is a way to face these challenges.  

  • Serena Psoroulas, Senior Scientist, Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Insitute (CH)
  • Dirk Verellen, Medical Physicist, Iridium Netwerk, University of Antwerp, Antwerp (BE) 
  • Pierre Montay-Gruel, Radiobiologist, Iridium Netwerk, University of Antwerp, Antwerp (BE) 
  • Frank Stephan, Accelerator Physicist, PITZ, DESY, Zeuthen (DE)
  • Rudi Labarbe, Senior Research Scientist, IBA S.A. Louvain-La-Neuve (BE
  • RaphaĆ«l Moeckli, Medical Physicist, Institute of Radiation Physics, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne (CH)

The goal of the workshop is to set the ground for the build-up of a FLASH-RT research consortium around data sharing, management and storage.  

Different topics will be developed in the form of break-out rooms: 

  • Database structure: Literature based, ongoing terminology discussions, biology practice, definition of the variables to be put in the database, data availability,  their eventual dependencies…
  • Consortium organization: What are possibilities for a multi-institutional consortium with possible industry cooperation/involvement? Possibility for funding and sustainability of the consortium (5(-10?) year timescale). 
  • Quality control: What QA strategies could we put in place to ensure data quality, including non-published data? Small internal audit, or peer-review mechanism? How to audit biological models? 
  • Data protection, publications, copyright, and industry utilization: What mechanisms are already used by other collaborations/consortiums, and what could be the pitfalls? 

Representatives of current existing consortia will also share their experience in creating and organizing such research networks, to help identify the challenges and caveats. More information to be announced.  

All research professionals involved in ultra-high dose rate fundamental, translational and clinical research, physicists, biologists, chemists, clinicians... 

Day 1: June 6th 2023 1:00pm – 5:00pm (CET) 

  • 1:00pm – 1:30 pm – Summary ESTRO physics workshop on FLASH-RT 
  • 1:30pm – 2:00pm Presentation from an existing consortium (TBA) + Q&A
  • 2:00pm – 3:00pm Sub-groups breakout rooms - PART 1
  • 3:00pm – 3:30pm Break
  • 3:30pm – 4:15pm   Sub-groups breakout rooms - PART 2 
  • 4:15pm – 4:45pm Summary from breakout rooms
  • 4:45pm – 5:00pm Introduction to the next step and to Day 2

Day 2: June 20th 2023 1:00pm – 4:30pm (CET) 

  • 1:00pm – 1:15pm – Introduction day 2 
  • 1:15pm – 1.45pm –  Presentation from an existing consortium (TBA) + Q&A
  • 1:45pm – 2:45pm – Sub-groups breakout rooms
  • 2:45pm – 3:15pm – Break
  • 3:15pm – 4:15pm – Summary from breakout rooms
  • 4:15pm – 4:30pm – Closing remarks, perspectives and follow-up.

Submission of a late breaking abstract at the Flash Radiotherapy and Particle Therapy meeting “FRPT 2023” 

Follow-up actions to build the consortium. 

 

To register, please use the following link: https://indico.psi.ch/event/14729/registrations/

Participants should choose a preferred topic to participate in the breakout rooms. 

 

Participants should choose a preferred topic to participate in the breakout rooms.