Objective
Cancer is a major social problem, and it is the main cause of death between the ages 45-65 years. In the treatment of cancer, radio therapy (RT) plays an essential role. RT with hadrons (protons and light ions), due to their unique physical and radiobiological properties, offers several advantages over photons for specific cancer types. In particular, they penetrate the patient with minimal diffusion, they deposit maximum energy at the end of their range, and they can be shaped as narrow focused and scanned pencil beams of variable penetration depth. Although significant progress has been made in the use of particle beams for cancer treatment, an extensive research and development program is still needed to maximize the healthcare benefits from these therapies.
The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) is the aim of the here-proposed European Training Network, in line with the requirements of the EC’s Medical Exposure Directive. OMA joins universities, research centers and clinical facilities with industry partners to address the challenges in treatment facility design and optimization, numerical simulations for the development of advanced treatment schemes, and in beam imaging and treatment monitoring.
The proposed R&D program ranges from life sciences (oncology, cell and micro biology and medical imaging.), physics and accelerator sciences, mathematics and IT, to engineering. It is hence ideally suited for an innovative training of early stage researchers. By closely linking all above research areas, OMA will provide an interdisciplinary education to its Fellows. This will equip them with solid knowledge also in research areas adjacent to their core research field, as well as with business competences and hence give them a perfect basis for a career in research.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsparticle accelerator
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- medical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsphotons
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsmathematical model
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
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1098 XG Amsterdam
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1211 Geneve 23
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27100 Pavia Pv
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28006 Madrid
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64291 Darmstadt
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1348 Ottignies Louvain La Neuve
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80539 Muenchen
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2700 Wiener Neustadt
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5232 Villigen Psi
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WC1E 6BT London
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M13 9PL Manchester
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41004 Sevilla
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09128 Chemnitz
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Birkenhead
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Manchester
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00044 Frascati
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WA3 7QX Warrington
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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Newport
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LA1 4YW Lancaster
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