Name: International Workshop on Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy (VHEE’25)
Start: 2025-09-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-17T14:00:00+01:00
Location: STFC, Daresbury Laboratory

International Workshop on Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy (VHEE’25)

from Monday, 15 September 2025 (08:00) to Wednesday, 17 September 2025 (14:00)

Monday, 15 September 2025

08:00 Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
08:00 - 08:30

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 Welcome - Stewart Boogert (-) Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
Welcome
- Stewart Boogert (-)
- Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
09:00 - 09:10
09:10
09:10 - 10:50
Contributions

09:10 Introduction and progress towards technology readiness - Roger Jones (Univ. Manchester/Cockcroft Inst.)

09:35 Clinical perspective of VHEE - Billy Loo (Stanford)

10:00 Medical physics aspects - Emil Schueler (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

10:25 Investigating the biological effects of beam parameters to guide technological developments for clinical applications. - Marie-Catherine Vozenin (HUG/UNIGE)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:00
Contributions

11:15 VHEE program at Curie including the clinical perspectives - Gilles Créhange (Institute Curie)

11:35 Discussion - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
12:00
12:00 - 13:00
Contributions

12:00 Status of CLEAR @CERN - Roberto Corsini (CERN)

12:20 Status of CLARA@STFC - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)

12:40 Status of ARES @ DESY - Florian Burkart (DESY)
13:00 Lunch Break & Group Photo
Lunch Break & Group Photo
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Status of SAFEST @ Sapienza - Lucia Giuliano (University of Rome)

14:20 The new beamline and biolab at FLASHlab@PITZ - Xiangkun Li (DESY)

14:40 Status of HyperVIEW @ Irvine, California - Christopher Barty

15:00 Ultracompact accelerator for electron Intrabeam RT - Matthias Fuchs

15:20 Discussion - Angeles Faus-Golfe
15:30

15:30 - 18:15

18:15 Coach pickup for transfer to hotels
Coach pickup for transfer to hotels
18:15 - 18:45
Tuesday, 16 September 2025

08:15 Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
08:15 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Experimental conditions for the FLASH effect: Systematic in vivo studies - Anouk Sesink (CHUV)

09:20 Very High Energy Electrons: Clinical Perspective and Constraints - Jake Pensavalle (Sordina IORT Technologies S.p.A.)

09:40 The challenge of VHEE planning: providing robust plans that will ease a FLASH delivery - Alessio Sarti (Sapienza Rome University)

10:00 Beam modelling, dose calculation and potential clinical application of a scanned electron beam with ultra-high dose rate - James Bedford (The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust)

10:20 The Dose per Bunch Controls Morphological Outcome in Zebrafish Embryos exposed to VHEE Beams - Louis Kunz (UNIGE)

10:40 Discussion - Marie-Catherine Vozenin (HUG/UNIGE)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:00
Contributions

11:20 Perspectives for VHEE with laser plasma acceleration technology - Timo Eichner

11:40 The I-LUCE laser-based acceleration facility at INFN and its perspectives for electron acceleration in FLASH and VHEE applications - Roberto Catalano (INFN Catania)

12:00 Status of electron acceleration and perspectives for VHEE with laser-plasma acceleration at ELI-Beamlines - Carlo Lazzarini (ELI ERIC ELI Beamlines Facility)

12:20 Recent progress on laser-driven Very High Energy Electron radiotherapy - Zhiyuan Guo (Tsinghua University)

12:40 Application of laser-driven high energy electrons to radiation biology and medical physics at LOA - Alessandro Flacco
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 14:20
Contributions

13:45 Progress towards 100 Hz operation of the VHEE beamline at ILIL - Gabriele Bandini (INO, CNR)

14:05 Discussion - Alessandro Flacco (LOA)
14:20
14:20 - 15:40
Contributions

14:20 Dosimetry codes of practice: are they applicable to VHEE RT? - Hugo Palmans (NPL)

14:40 Dosimetry at ultra high dose rates at PITZ and ARES - Oliver Stein (DESY)

15:00 Diamond detectors for UHDR-VHEE dosimetry - Gianluca Verona Rinati (Uni of Rome Tor Vergata)

15:20 Dose increment via coherent stopping of VHEE in ultraintense irradiations - alessandro Curcio (UniRoma)
15:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:40 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Beam Position Monitoring of Electron Beams with the hybrid Pixelated Detector Dosepix and Nitrogen Fluorescence Light - Florian Beißer (FAU Erlangen)

16:20 UHDR-VHEE dosimetry with Silicon Carbide detectors - Giuliana Milluzzo (INFN- Catania Division)

16:40 Novel approaches for UHDR-VHEE through ionization chambers - Marco Montefiori (CPFR)

17:00 Discussion - Anna Subiel (NPL)
17:30 Coach Pick Up for Workshop Dinner
Coach Pick Up for Workshop Dinner
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:30 - 21:30
Wednesday, 17 September 2025

07:45 Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
07:45 - 08:30
08:45
08:45 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Industry VHEE devices: THALES - Elisabeth Dehe (THALES) Terence SCHUERMANS (THALES)

09:15 Industry VHEE devices: THERYQ (FLASHDEEP) - Philippe Liger (THERYQ)

09:30 Industry VHEE devices: Lumitron Technologies - Christopher Barty (Lumitron Technologies & Univ. of California, Irvine)

09:45 Industry VHEE devices: SIT - Giuseppe Felici (SIT)

10:00 Discussion - Luigi Palumbo
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 11:50
Contributions

10:30 VHEE activities at ASU - Mark Holl (ASU)

10:50 Experience of building an X-band compact 300MeV linac (TBC) - Li Hongyu (Tsinghua University)

11:10 Cold Copper for VHEE - Emma Snively (SLAC)

11:30 Discussion - Roberto Corsini (CERN)
11:50
11:50 - 13:20
Contributions

11:50 Power and Beam Dynamics Optimization for a VHEE FLASH LINAC - Stefano Farina (La Sapienza University)

12:00 Predictive Modelling of Radiotherapy LINAC Downtime using Variational Autoencoders. - Samuel Leadley (University of Oxford)

12:10 The optimal Very High Energy Electron beam parameters to treat glioblastoma using Pencil Beam Scanning - Katie O’Shea (CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital))

12:20 CLEAR, operational status and VHEE activities. - Giacomo Tangari (CERN / Sapienza University of Rome)

12:30 Transfer Matrix Formalism of In-Air VHEE Beam Profile Measurements at PEER - Joel Valerian (University of Melbourne)

12:40 Development of Scattering Systems for Tumour Conformality with VHEE Beams - Sabrina Wang (Oxford University, JAI)

12:50 Dosimetric Impact of Anatomical Change on VHEE and VMAT Plans: A Comparative Robustness Study - Fabio D'Andrea (UMAN, CI)

13:00 External Injection into Plasma to Produce VHEE Beams - Jordan Byrne (UMAN, CI)
13:20 Concluding Remarks - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
Concluding Remarks
- Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
13:20 - 13:30
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:00