We would like to thank the attendees of IWPCT 2018 for the numerous participation and the great contributions on our 5th International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment, which was held from March 20-21, 2018 in Greifswald, Germany.
It was a great pleasure to welcome you all in our Hanseatic city!
We are looking forward to the 6th International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment (IWPCT 2019), which will be held from April 1-3, 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium!
The 5th International Workshop on Plasma for Cancer Treatment, organized by the Leibniz Insitute for Plasma Science and Technology and the University Medicine Greifswald, was held from March 20-21, 2018 in Greifswald, Germany.
We had about 120 participants from 21 different countries and in sum 64 contibutions, inlcuding invited talks, oral presentations and posters.
The workshop covered the following topics:
- Plasma sources and plasma equipment used for cancer treatment
- Plasma-cancer interactions: experiments, modeling and simulation
- Destruction of cancer cells by plasma
- Mechanisms of plasma selectivity towards cancer cells
- Plasma-liquid interaction / plasma chemistry in biological liquids / plasma activated media for cancer treatment
- Clinical and animal studies of cancer treatment by plasma
For more impressions of the IWPCT 2018 please visit our Youtube Channel: More
Deadlines:
Abstract
- Abstract submission: until October 25th 2017 Abstract submission extended until: November 09, 2017
- Abstract acceptance notification: after November 27th 2017
Registration
- Early registration: October 1st 2017 - January 15th 2018
- Late registration: January 16th - February 20th 2018
Fees:
Early registration fees:
- Regular participants (academic and research institutions, industry and private): €300
- Students (student ID required): €150
- Conference dinner on Tuesday evening (@University of Greifswald): +€60
Late registration fees:
- Regular participants (academic and research institutions, industry and private): €400
- Students (student ID required): €200
- Conference dinner on Tuesday evening (@University of Greifswald): +€60
Social events
- Excursion to Stralsund "Ozeaneum" (guided tour) on Monday +€40
General Chairs
- Hans-Robert Metelmann, Clinical Plasma Medicine, Dept. for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Greifswald University Medicine
- Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
International Scientific Committee
- Annemie Bogaerts, Chair, University of Antwerp
- David Graves, Co-Chair, University of California Berkeley
- Mounir Laroussi, Old Dominion University
- Michael Keidar, George Washington University
- Xinpei Lu, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
- Masaru Hori, Nagoya University
- Eun Ha Choi, Kwangwoon University
- Jerome Canady, US Medical Innovations LLC
- Jonathan Sherman, George Washington University
- Georg Isbary, Roche Pharma AG
- Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Deborah O'Connell, University of York
- Cristina Canal, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
- João Santos Sousa, CNRS and University of Paris-Saclay
Technical Program Committee
- Vittorio Colombo, University of Bologna, Italy
- Eun Ha Choi, Kwangwoon University, Korea
- Sander Bekeschus, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Vandana Miller, Drexel University, Philadelphia
- Hiromasa Tanaka, Meisei University, Tokyo
Local Organizing Committee
- Hans-Robert Metelmann, Clinical Plasma Medicine, Dept. for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Greifswald University Medicine
- Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Thomas von Woedtke, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Manuela Glawe, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Kerstin Böttger, Dept. for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Greifswald University Medicine
- Volker Markmann, Greifswald University Hospital, Greifswald University Medicine
- Christina Rohde, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Sander Bekeschus, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Charlotte Giese, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Christin Siedler, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Lisa Treibert, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Hans Sawade, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP)
- Georg Daeschlein, Department of Dermatology, Greifswald University Medicine
- Lars Ivo Partecke, Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Greifswald University Medicine
Christian Seebauer
Oncology-Medicine
University of Greifswald, Germany
David Graves
Plasma Physics
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Eleonora Turrini
Biochemistry
University of Bologna, Italy
Endre Szili
Plasma Physics
University of South Australia
Hirokazu Hara
Biochemistry
Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Japan
Lluis Mir
Oncology-Medicine
Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, France
Mark Kushner
Plasma Physics
University of Michigan, USA
Nagendra Kauschik
Oncology-Medicine
Kwangwoon University PBRC, Korea
Sander Bekeschus
Biology
INP Greifswald, Germany
Sylvia Dewilde
Biochemistry
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Vandana Miller
Oncology-Medicine
Drexel University, USA
With the aim of recognizing the work of students in the field of Plasma Medicine applied to cancer, the Bob Barker Best Student Paper Award was given to a student for the best poster presentation at IWPCT–2017 in Paris for the first time.
To continue this tradition, we awarded the Bob Barker Best Student Paper Award at IWPCT-2018 to Katharina Witzke for her Poster "Plasma Medical Oncology: Long-Term Results with Focus on Immunity Research".
The jury was composed of the members of the ISC and the TPC. The Award was supported by BioCon Valley GmbH.
In collaboration with Elsevier, the abstracts presented at the IWPCT 2018 were published in an abstract book as a supplement to Volume 9 of the Journal Clinical Plasma Medicine.
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