An international workshop on Electromagnetic hyperthermic technologies, establishing the way forward.
This first meeting brought together reaserchers from academia, industry and medicine to discuss the way forward for EM thermal-based technologies. Guest speakers were also invited to enrich the discussions.
Check out what has been discussed below!
WG 3 session – Commercialisation pathways for medical devices.
Introduction to Working Group 3 by Dr Martin O’Halloran and Dr Giuseppe Ruvio.
- Protecting and Commercialising Intellectual Property by Dr Ing. Anton Bartolo, Director, of Knowledge Transfer Office, University of Malta.
- Year 1 Selecting the needs to be resolved by Dr Aaron Hannon (Entrepreneur).
- Year 2-3 Building an Investible start-up Medtech company by Dr Martin O’Halloran and Dr Giuseppe Ruvio.
- The Venture Capital (VC) Investor Viewpoint – Josh Chao
- Invited talk by Dr Chris Brace from Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, US. “Microwave ablation: Next steps for technology development.”
Working group 1 session – Towards advancing knowledge of dielectric properties.
- V. Lopresto, R. Pinto, M. Cavagnaro, “Measurement protocols for characterisation of temperature-dependent changes in the dielectric properties of tissues undergoing microwave thermal ablation.”
- S.H. Zadeh, M. Capstick, T. Samaras and N. Kuster, “Ex-vivo dielectric measurement of small biological samples at in vivo temperature.”
- S. Di Meo, M. Pasian, “Protocol for measuring dielectric properties up to 50 GHz of ex-vivo breast tissues.”
- E. Porter, A. La Gioia, M. O’Halloran, “Dielectric Measurement of Biological Tissues: Challenges with Heterogeneous Tissue and Metadata.”
- L. Farrugia, J. Bonello, C.V. Sammut, “High frequency dielectric measurements of biological tissues.”
WG 2 – Towards better thermal-based EM therapies.
WG2 Introduction by Dr. Maarten Paulides and Dr. Lorenzo Crocco.
Opportunities and challenges in clinical hyperthermia by:
- Prof. Niloy Rajan Datta, Aarau Kantonspital, Switzerland.
- Prof. Gerard van Rhoon, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Opportunities and challenges in thermal ablation therapies by Dr. Kelvin Cortis, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta.
- Dr. Fernando Burdio, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.
Structured open discussion on:
- WG2 challenges (What are the clinical issues we have to face?)
- WG2 perspectives (What are the opportunities you envisage?)
- WG2 logistics (how to move forward?)
