We are pleased to announce that the wait is over and NPL will again be hosting the popular PPRIG workshop, this will be the 6th meeting and the first since 2019. NPL established the Proton Physics Research and Implementation Group (PPRIG) back in 2012 with representatives from key stakeholders including the Christie, UCLH and Clatterbridge. The aim of this group was originally to bring together interested parties to bid for research funding collaboratively and establish a programme of work that would drive forward proton therapy related research in the UK. The next workshop will be an opportunity to discuss the developments that have taken place over the past 4 years and to reenergise PPRIG and its future direction.

The Proton Physics Research and Implementation Group (PPRIG) workshop will be held at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 November 2023. The two-day event will include invited speakers, debates, discussions, conference talks and poster sessions.

Confirmed speakers:

Professor Harald Paganetti – Director of Physics Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School
Professor Tony Lomax – Chief Medical Physicist at the Paul Scherrer Institute
Doctor Yolanda Prezado - Team leader at Institut Curie and Research Director CNRS
Doctor Sebastiaan Breedveld – Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology Erasmus MC Cancer Institute (Erasmus University Medical Center), Rotterdam
Doctor Colin Baker - Group Lead for Proton Beam Therapy Physics at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Doctor Matthew Lowe - Principal Clinical Scientist at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Doctor Nick Henthorn - Research Fellow at University of Manchester
Doctor John Warmenhoven - Research Fellow at University of Manchester
Professor Russell Thomas – Science Area Leader at the National Physical Laboratory
Lee Harrison-Carey - Senior proton therapy trials and RTTQA physicist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Oliver Jäkel - Head of Division at German Cancer Research Center, DKFZ

Conference prices

Full registration - £300 (+VAT)
Student - £81.25 (+VAT) - Student rate only available to students who submit an abstract to the workshop. Limited student places available.

Conference ticket includes tea and coffee breaks, a small breakfast snack and lunch during the two-day workshop as well as the conference dinner on Thursday 9th November at a local restaurant.

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NPL Proton Physics Research and Implementation Group Workshop