Workshops
FLASH Radiotherapy
July 17, 4 pm - 6 pm | An accessible and multidisciplinary event dedicated to FLASH radiotherapy, a new frontier in radiotherapy oncology that uses ultra-intense particle beams delivered in extremely short times. The workshop covers development of novel acceleration technologies needed to generate FLASH beams, studies of new radiobiological effects, diagnostics and clinical perspectives. It will also be an opportunity for discussion between research and industry, with the involvement of Italian and Japanese researchers. Particular attention will be paid to the dissemination aspect, to make the contents accessible to a non-specialist audience.
On site: Leonida Gizzi, Gabriele Bandini, Simona Piccinini, Margherita Maffei, Mario Costa (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Pisa), Tomonao Hosokai (Osaka University), Kazumasa Minami Osaka (University Graduate School of Medicine), Fabiola Paiar (Pisa University - Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana).
Contact Person: Leonida Gizzi - la.gizzi(AT)ino.cnr.it
Italian wellbeing. Words, stories and healing spaces
July 18, 2:05 pm - 3:45 pm | The workshop will be based on a mix of storytelling, wellbeing and work-related stress literacy, and aesthetic/narrative experiences related to Italy, with particular attention to the thermal and cultural scenarios, the result of recent archaeological discoveries in San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany. These themes, of great interest both in our society and in the Japanese one, will allow us to build a parallel between our two worlds, which will be investigated together with Japanese teachers and students from Italian language schools in Tokyo and Osaka.
On site: Tiziana de Rogatis, Andreina Sgaglione (University for Foreigners of Siena), with the participation of Japanese teachers and students from Italian language schools in Tokyo and Osaka.
Contact Person: Tiziana de Rogatis - derogatis(AT)unistrasi.it
Precision medicine
July 18, 3:45 pm - 4:55 pm | A workshop on artificial intelligence techniques to accelerate our understanding of the mechanisms of action of the most important class of membrane receptors in the human genome, as well as the most important class of drug targets, namely G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The presentation will use molecular graphics techniques to visualize protein structures, their dynamics and their interaction networks in human cells and tissues, and how this information can be exploited to design targeted therapies.
On site: Francesco Raimondi, Marin Matic (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa)
Contact Person: Francesco Raimondi - francesco.raimondi(AT)sns.it
Last update
09.07.2025