Robert R. Wilson Award
Given to an individual scientist active in the field, recognizing their cumulative achievements in Particle Therapy.

 At PTCOG 58 (2019) the Award was given to:
       Jürgen Debus
 (Award Lecture: Introduction of Carbon ion beam therapy in Europe and clinical trials)

At PTCOG 60 (2022) the Award was given to:
      Harald Paganetti

At PTCOG 61 (2023) the Award was given to:

      Hirohiko Tsujii

At PTCOG 62 (2024) the Award was given to:

      Antony Lomax

 

Michael Goitein Best Abstract Award
Given to individual scientists for best abstract of the conference in Physics, Radiobiolgy and Clinical in Particle Therapy.

At PTCOG 56 (2017) the Awards were given to:

Physics: K.Teo: Clinical Prompt Gamma

Biology: M. Sertorio: Cellular Response to Charged Particle Exposures

Clinical: K. Miura: Proton Beam for HCC

At PTCOG 57 (2018) the Awards were given to:

Physics: Pablo Cirrone: On-line In-Vivo Dose Monitor

Biology: Ralph Vatner: Differences in Endothelial Cell Activation

Clinical: F. Menial-Merzowki: Long Term Results of Hypo- fractionaited PT for Choroidal Hemangiomas

At PTCOG 58 (2019) the Awards were given to:

Physics:  Joost Verburg: Full Scale clinical prototype gamma-ray spectroscopy systemfor proton range verificationwith robotic positioning

Biology: Jason Parsons: Cellular Response to Complex DNA damage induced response induced by High-LET protons

Clinical: Patrik Brodin: Estimating individual quality of life benefit and cost effectiveness of proton therapy for patients with oropharyngeal head and neck Cancer

 

Young Investigators Award
The work of young investigator for each PTCOG Conference will be awarded.

At PTCOG 57 (2018) the Award was given to:
Ali Nowrouzi:
Determining the RBE of particle irradiation via development of a novel quantitative and functional DNA-double strand break repair assay

At PTCOG 58 (2019) the Award was given to:
Gang Liu:
Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) Using Spot-Scanning Proton Arc (SPArc) Therapy: A Feasibility Study

PTCOG Project Funding 2025

PTCOG is a Co-Operative organization dedicated to the field of particle therapy. This is a multi-disciplinary field involving a number of specialties. It is central to this field that work to facilitate research and development is encouraged. Beyond its primary role to bring together the practitioners and newcomers to the field in the context of scientific exchange, education and publication, PTCOG has gone a step further by beginning to provide some tangible funding to help expedite appropriate endeavors in the field. To that end, each year, PTCOG will accept proposals for Scientific Projects and Education and provide funding for a select few of these. The PTCOG budget is limited, but the organization will strive to make some funding available.

The projects awarded by PTCOG will be announced during the PTCPG 63 Conference in Argentina. 

The form for applications will be published here in October 2024 latest.

PTCOG 63 Travel Fellowship Program

The Particle Therapy Cooperative Group (PTCOG) offers a travel fellowship program, intended to facilitate attendance at its meetings of relative newcomers to the field of particle therapy for networking and educational purposes. For the upcoming PTCOG 63 Annual Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2 - 7, 2025, it is anticipated that about 10-12 awards will be made.

A candidate for an Award must be a person, who:

1. has to be a registered member of PTCOG;
2. has not recieved a PTCOG travel fellowship award previously;
3. is at most 5 years beyond his or her highest degree and has at least one year, and at most 3 years experience in particle beam therapy;
4. is a member of, or at least affiliated with, an institution which must either: have, be building, or be in advanced stages of planning of a particle therapy facility;
5. and, whose institution is Institutional PTCOG Member and will undertake to cover any additional costs of a fellow’s attendance at the society’s conference.

Applications will be accepted from one, maximum two candidates from any given institution. An effort will be made to have representation from as wide a geographic area and institutions as possible.

Travel fellows submitting an abstract for the Scientific Meeting at PTCOG 63 are especially welcome.

The submission of applications is closed.

 

Members of the PTCOG Travel Fellowship selection committee:

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PTCOG Project Funding 2025, Topics and Procedures

PTCOG is a Co-Operative organization dedicated to the field of particle therapy. This is a multi-disciplinary field involving a number of specialties. It is central to this field that work to facilitate research and development is encouraged. Beyond its primary role to bring together the practitioners and newcomers to the field in the context of scientific exchange, education and publication, PTCOG has gone a step further by beginning to provide some tangible funding to help expedite appropriate endeavors in the field. To that end, each year, PTCOG will accept proposals for Scientific Projects and Education and provide funding for a select few of these. The PTCOG budget is limited, but the organization will strive to make some funding available.

At this time PTCOG will start by considering funding in the following categories. All of these categories can be part of studies involving clinical, biology and physics or mixed disciplines. All proposals are required to be submitted not later than March 15^th, 2025.

The projects awarded by PTCOG will be announced during the PTCOG 63 Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 2025. 

The categories are:

1.  Educational Outreach (partial funding) (one per year)
2.  Individual exchange program visits to operating facilities (e.g. partial travel)
3.  Travel fellowships to PTCOG sponsored/endorsed events
4. Partial support for specific activities related to a collaborative research program.
       This can have many forms and some examples of these can be:
   •  Retrospective and prospective analyses (e.g. student funding or travel support)
   •  Beam measurements (e.g. beam time and/or travel support)
   •  Instrumentation testing collaborative support
   •  Combined therapies, flash irradiation radiobiology, toxicity mechanisms: proof of concept
   • Support for data mining and/or categorization related to particle therapy publications                    

The process will be as follows:
   A) A PTCOG member writes a scientific proposal (please download and use this template;
       5 pages maximum) and submit it to the Project Funding Committee.
       The proposal must, at least, contain the following:
         a. Proposal Topic
         b. Explanation of why it is important for the field.
         c. Estimation of timetable for key milestones
         d. A detailed budget
         e. Expected deliverables, such as publications and/or useful data for the community
  B) The PTCOG Project Funding Committee will define a short list of the proposals with a summary
       of the strengths and weaknesses, and submit that to the Executive Committee.
  C) The Executive Committee will make a final selection.
  D) Funding will be announced at the following PTCOG Annual Conference.
  E) Project funding will be dependent on the available allocated budget of PTCOG for that year 
     (about 50 k$ are available per year).
  F) The Awardee will be required to provide a written status and present the results
      at the one of the PTCOG Annual Conferences.

On behalf of the PTCOG organization I encourage you to apply and look forward to seeing your work providing enhanced clarity for our field.

PTCOG Chair