Early Stage Researchers

Marta Bolsa (ESR 1)
Project title:
"Improvement of the hadrontherapy protocols using nanosensitizers"
Host: CNRS - Institut de Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
PhD enrolment: University Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Supervisor: Sandrine Lacombe
Objectives: New strategy to improve hadrontherapy by using nanoagents
Vladimir Ivošev (ESR 2)
Project title:
"Uptake dynamics of nanoagents and effect on radio-enhancement"
Host: CNRS - Institut de Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
PhD enrolment: University Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Supervisor: Sandrine Lacombe
Objectives: Characterization of the role of the nanoagents as a function of its localization in the cell
Kaspar Haume (ESR 3)
Project title:
"Development of new modules for ATK code for modeling radiosensitizing nanoagents"
Host: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Supervisors: Nigel Mason (The Open University), Andrey Solov'yov (MBN Research Center), Jim Hague (The Open University)
Co-supervisor: Kurt Stokbro (QuantumWise)
Objectives: Develop computational methods and tools to predict the stability and structure of biocompatible nanoagents
Lilian Ellis-Gibbings (ESR 4)
Project title:
"Bond-breaking as a descriptor for nanodosimetry"
Host: CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Supervisor: Gustavo Garcia
Objectives: Development of nanodosimetry methodologies based on bond-breaking
Ali Traore Dubuis (ESR 5)
Project title:
"Validation of models in medical radiation planning"
Host: CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Supervisor: Gustavo Garcia
Objectives: Incorporate nanoscale radiation damage models to treatment planning systems for specific therapies and nanoparticle-aided approaches
Vivek Thakare (ESR 6)
Project title:
"Nanoagent functionalization aiming at tumor targeting and biocompatibility"
Host: Chematech & University of Bourgogne, Dijon
Supervisor: Frederic Boschetti (Chematech) & Franck Denat (University of Bourgogne)
Objectives: Develop effective new targeted molecules for nanoagents
Soraia Rosa (ESR 7)
Project title:
"Nanoscale understanding of cell signalling and biological response"
Host: Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Supervisor: Kevin Prise
Objectives: Understanding of bystander effects and changes in cell signalling in the presence of nanoparticles
Pablo de Vera (ESR 8)
Project title:
"Multiscale understanding of radiation biodamage"
Hosts: The Open University (UK), Queen's University Belfast (UK), MBN Research Center (Germany)
Supervisors: Nigel Mason (OU), Fred Curell (QUB), Andrey Solov'yov (MBN-RC)
Objectives: Set up and validation of a multiscale model for radiation damage
Vu-Long Tran (ESR 9)
Project title:
"Development of Lanthanides based nanosensitizers for theranostic"
Host: Nano-H & Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, France
Supervisor: Olivier Tillement, François Lux (Université Claude Bernard Lyon I), Dr. Cédric Louis (Nano-H)
Objectives: Development of a new set of lanthanide based nanosensitizers to improve theranostic
Arkadiusz Mika (ESR 10)
Project title:
"Molecular efficiency of radiosensitizers in ion-induced radiation damage processes"
Host: CEA
PhD enrolment: Université de Caen Basse Normandie, Caen, FR
Supervisor: Lamri Adoui
Objectives: Improve the understanding of radiation damage on the local (molecular) scale, including the effect of radiosensitizers
Daria Boscolo (ESR 11)
Project title:
"OER prediction on the nanoscale for a target tissue in different conditions of irradiation and oxygenation"
Host: GSI
PhD enrolment: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Supervisors: Marco Durante, Emanuele Scifoni and Michael Kraemer
Objectives: Determine the impact of nanoscale processes and agents on OER; Nanoscopic understanding of direct and indirect damage ratio as a function of LET, pO2 and nanoagents concentration
Sophie Grellet (ESR 12)
Project title:
"Exploring site specificity, structure and sequence dependence of radiation-induced damage"
Host: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Supervisors: Jon Golding (OU), Nigel Mason (OU), Małgorzata Śmiałek-Telega (Gdansk University of Technology)
Objectives: Characterization of nanoscale processes as a function of site specificity in cellular components
Alexey Verkhovtsev (ESR 13)
Project title:
"Impact of nanoscale processes and agents on biodamage complexity in the presence of nanoagents"
Host: Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid, Spain)
Supervisors: Gustavo Garcia (IFF-CSIC), Andrey Solov'yov (MBN-RC)
Objectives: Determine the impact of nanoscale processes and nanoagents on RBE