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, September 15, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (2:00 PM)

Monday, September 15, 2025

8:00 AM Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Stewart Boogert (-) Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
Welcome
- Stewart Boogert (-)
- Jim Clarke (STFC Daresbury Laboratory)
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
9:10 AM Setting up the scene for VHEE
9:10 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:10 AM Introduction and progress towards technology readiness - Roger Jones (Univ. Manchester/Cockcroft Inst.)

9:35 AM Clinical perspective of VHEE - Billy Loo (Stanford)

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

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

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

11:35 AM Discussion - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
12:00 PM Facility Updates Session
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:40 PM Status of ARES @ DESY - Florian Burkart (DESY)
1:00 PM Lunch Break & Group Photo
Lunch Break & Group Photo
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Facility Updates Session
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Status of SAFEST @ Sapienza - Lucia Giuliano (University of Rome)

2:20 PM The new beamline and biolab at FLASHlab@PITZ - Xiangkun Li (DESY)

2:40 PM Status of HyperVIEW @ Irvine, California - Christopher Barty

3:00 PM Ultracompact accelerator for electron Intrabeam RT - Matthias Fuchs

3:20 PM Discussion - Angeles Faus-Golfe
3:30 PM CLARA Tours & Student Poster Session

3:30 PM - 6:15 PM

6:15 PM Coach pickup for transfer to hotels
Coach pickup for transfer to hotels
6:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

8:15 AM Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Biological and Medical Physics
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Experimental conditions for the FLASH effect: Systematic in vivo studies - Anouk Sesink (CHUV)

9:20 AM Very High Energy Electrons: Clinical Perspective and Constraints - Jake Pensavalle (Sordina IORT Technologies S.p.A.)

9:40 AM The challenge of VHEE planning: providing robust plans that will ease a FLASH delivery - Alessio Sarti (Sapienza Rome University)

10:00 AM 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 AM The Dose per Bunch Controls Morphological Outcome in Zebrafish Embryos exposed to VHEE Beams - Louis Kunz (UNIGE)

10:40 AM Discussion - Marie-Catherine Vozenin (HUG/UNIGE)
11:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
11:20 AM VHEE non conventional (Laser Plasma)
11:20 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

11:40 AM 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 PM Status of electron acceleration and perspectives for VHEE with laser-plasma acceleration at ELI-Beamlines - Carlo Lazzarini (ELI ERIC ELI Beamlines Facility)

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

12:40 PM Application of laser-driven high energy electrons to radiation biology and medical physics at LOA - Alessandro Flacco
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM VHEE non conventional (Laser Plasma)
1:45 PM - 2:20 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Progress towards 100 Hz operation of the VHEE beamline at ILIL - Gabriele Bandini (INO, CNR)

2:05 PM Discussion - Alessandro Flacco (LOA)
2:20 PM Dosimetry and Detectors
2:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:20 PM Dosimetry codes of practice: are they applicable to VHEE RT? - Hugo Palmans (NPL)

2:40 PM Dosimetry at ultra high dose rates at PITZ and ARES - Oliver Stein (DESY)

3:00 PM Diamond detectors for UHDR-VHEE dosimetry - Gianluca Verona Rinati (Uni of Rome Tor Vergata)

3:20 PM Dose increment via coherent stopping of VHEE in ultraintense irradiations - alessandro Curcio (UniRoma)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Dosimetry and Detectors
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Beam Position Monitoring of Electron Beams with the hybrid Pixelated Detector Dosepix and Nitrogen Fluorescence Light - Florian Beißer (FAU Erlangen)

4:20 PM UHDR-VHEE dosimetry with Silicon Carbide detectors - Giuliana Milluzzo (INFN- Catania Division)

4:40 PM Novel approaches for UHDR-VHEE through ionization chambers - Marco Montefiori (CPFR)

5:00 PM Discussion - Anna Subiel (NPL)
5:30 PM Coach Pick Up for Workshop Dinner
Coach Pick Up for Workshop Dinner
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

7:45 AM Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
Coach pickup from hotels: Park Royal@ Premier Inn@ Village Hotel@
7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
8:45 AM Industries for medical technologies
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Industry VHEE devices: THALES - Elisabeth Dehe (THALES) Terence SCHUERMANS (THALES)

9:15 AM Industry VHEE devices: THERYQ (FLASHDEEP) - Philippe Liger (THERYQ)

9:30 AM Industry VHEE devices: Lumitron Technologies - Christopher Barty (Lumitron Technologies & Univ. of California, Irvine)

9:45 AM Industry VHEE devices: SIT - Giuseppe Felici (SIT)

10:00 AM Discussion - Luigi Palumbo
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Accelerators R&D and Technologies for Medical
10:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

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

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

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

11:30 AM Discussion - Roberto Corsini (CERN)
11:50 AM Student Presentations
11:50 AM - 1:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1:00 PM External Injection into Plasma to Produce VHEE Beams - Jordan Byrne (UMAN, CI)
1:20 PM Concluding Remarks - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
Concluding Remarks
- Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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