Projet RAPTORplus (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2024)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The RAPTORplus consortium gathers excellent research institutions, academic hospitals and non-academic particle therapy (PT) centres, industrial corporations and public organisations. It offers a platform for intercultural, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training and education of doctoral candidates (DCs) in the field of medical physics focussing on right-time adaptive PT. The assembled infrastructure and expertise from academia, clinic and industry is needed to address the challenges of personalised adaptive PT. PT is a precise form of radiotherapy with a growing number of centres treating patients. It targets localised cancers while sparing healthy tissue, but might deliver suboptimal doses in case of anatomical changes. To exploit the full potential of PT, fast and safe online treatment adaptations must be enabled and performed if beneficial, e.g. indicated by image-based biomarkers, biological models or other response data. The research projects conducted at academic and non-academic facilities will tackle (1) the efficient realisation of online-adaptive PT (OAPT), (2) the technological completion for broad and safe use of OAPT, and (3) a further treatment personalisation by biomarker-based adaptation. The network uses a multi-sectoral approach to ensure that the DCs develop scientific, clinical and practical industry-relevant skills. The holistic training programme includes in-person training camps, online trainings, project-specific secondments, training in tutoring, research communication, entrepreneurship and science policy, and opportunities to participate in international conferences and professional networks. RAPTORplus will train the next generation of research leaders, medical physicists and entrepreneurs to be aware of the necessity of right-time adaptive PT. They will drive innovation in the coming era of adaptive PT and improve cancer care through enduring international and cross-sectoral collaborations based on their transformative thinking.

Mots clés : particle therapy, online adaptation, medical imaging, treatment verification, biomarkers, cost efficiency, paediatric cancer, response modelling

Participants :
- European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut Paul Scherrer (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Ljubljana (Slovénie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Raysearch laboratories ab (publ) (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 324630.0 €
- Particle therapy co-operative group (ptcog) (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Allemagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 290272.32 €
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- European federation of organisations for medical physics (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University Hospital Heidelberg (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université technologique de Dresde (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290272.32 €
- Université de médecine de Vienne (Autriche) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Berne (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Siemens Healthcare (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 281755.08 €
- National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Hôpital universitaire Haukeland (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Cosylab (Slovénie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 270783.72 €
- Université de Stockholm (Suède) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (Suisse) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ion Beam Applications (Belgium) (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 288540.0 €
- Université d'Aarhus (Danemark) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 335890.08 €
- Université de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 348738.12 €
- Université Louis-et-Maximilien de Munich (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 290272.32 €
- KU Leuven (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288540.0 €
- Collège universitaire du Vestland (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 339932.16 €
- École polytechnique de Milan (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 281755.08 €
- University Medical Center Groningen (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 305285.76 €
- The general hospital corporation (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Holland particle therapy centre bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Turin (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Navarre (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282188.16 €
- Brainlab (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 290272.32 €