Manjit Dosanjh is the former senior advisor for medical applications at CERN and Visiting Professor at University of Oxford. She is the Project Leader for STELLA (Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators) for ICEC and coordinator of the ENLIGHT (European Network for Light Ion Hadron Therapy) Network. She holds a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the UK and her professional efforts in the fields of cancer and medical applications of physics spanning more than 30 years, during which she has held positions in various academic and research institutions in Europe and the U.S., including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the European Commission Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC) in Italy. She joined CERN in 1999, where she was instrumental in application of technologies developed at CERN to the medical field. Her recent research has focussed on developing robust cheaper Linacs for developing countries with project STELLA (Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators) which is addressing the lack of access to cancer treatment in LMICs (Low- and Middle-Income Countries). She is also the pillar coordinator of HITRIplus as well as working on VHEE (Very High Energy Electrons) technologies for FLASH therapy.

Dr. Snively is an Associate Scientist in the RF Accelerator Research Division of the Technology Innovation Directorate at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Dr. Snively’s research has focused on the development of next generation high-gradient accelerators and precision beam manipulation, with an emphasis on medical accelerator applications. Dr. Snively is currently leading projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Accelerator R&D and Production (ARDAP) to develop compact systems for Very High Energy Electron (VHEE) therapy and RF-based high speed pencil beam scanning for hadron therapy. These programs seek to deliver therapy machines with high dose rate capability sufficient for FLASH treatments that could be readily adopted in existing clinical infrastructure. Dr. Snively’s research interests include high frequency accelerator design, pushing beyond the RF frequency range of conventional beam manipulation to enable more compact, high rep-rate, high efficiency structures, and to find new applications for THz science.

Lucy Whitmore is an upcoming Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiation Physics in Emil Schuler’s group at MD Anderson, with a focus on FLASH radiotherapy. Lucy recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester with the title “VHEE Radiotherapy: Focused Dose Delivery and Image Guidance”, in collaboration with the Cockcroft Institute and the Christie Hospital. Lucy’s research work to date has included Monte Carlo simulations and beam optics work on focusing VHEE beams, to reduce the entrance dose and allow for targeted dose delivery. This work was used the basis for focused VHEE dose studies Lucy conducted at the CLEAR facility at CERN. Lucy’s work has also explored image guidance requirements for VHEE, including feasibility simulation studies for VHEE MR-guided radiotherapy.

Affiliation:

Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiation Physics

Schuler’s group at MD Anderson

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Pierre Korysko is a physicist at the University of Oxford Department of Physics and the CERN Beams Department working at CLEAR, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research user facility. He received his DPhil degree from the University of Oxford working on Wakefield Effects in Linear Colliders. His current research interests include radiotherapy studies using very high energy electrons at ultra high dose rate, development of dosimetry methods, radiation to electronic studies, research on beam instrumentation for future linear and circular colliders, radiation hardness of electronics for aerospace and high energy application.

Affiliation:

Department of Physics

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

CERN Beams Department – CLEAR

Geneva, Switzerland