{"id":692,"date":"2020-10-27T12:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\/projects\/mywave\/?p=692"},"modified":"2020-10-29T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T09:08:43","slug":"opening-meeting-in-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mt\/projects\/mywave\/meeting\/opening-meeting-in-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening meeting in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">An international workshop on Electromagnetic hyperthermic technologies, establishing the way forward.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out what has been discussed below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WG 3 session \u2013 Commercialisation pathways for medical devices.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to Working Group 3 by Dr Martin O\u2019Halloran and Dr Giuseppe Ruvio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Protecting and Commercialising Intellectual Property<\/strong> by Dr Ing. Anton Bartolo, Director, of Knowledge Transfer Office, University of Malta.<\/li><li><strong>Year 1 Selecting the needs to be resolved<\/strong> by Dr Aaron Hannon (Entrepreneur).<\/li><li><strong>Year 2-3 Building an Investible start-up Medtech company<\/strong> by Dr Martin O\u2019Halloran and Dr Giuseppe Ruvio.<\/li><li><strong>The Venture Capital (VC) Investor Viewpoint<\/strong> \u2013 Josh Chao<\/li><li>Invited talk by Dr Chris Brace from Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, US. \u201c<strong>Microwave ablation: Next steps for technology development.<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Working group 1 session \u2013 Towards advancing knowledge of dielectric properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>V. Lopresto, R. Pinto, M. Cavagnaro, \u201c<strong>Measurement protocols for characterisation of temperature-dependent changes in the dielectric properties of tissues undergoing microwave thermal ablation.<\/strong>\u201d <\/li><li>S.H. Zadeh, M. Capstick, T. Samaras and N. Kuster, \u201c<strong>Ex-vivo dielectric measurement of small biological samples at in vivo temperature.<\/strong>\u201d <\/li><li>S. Di Meo, M. Pasian, \u201c<strong>Protocol for measuring dielectric properties up to 50 GHz of ex-vivo breast tissues.<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><li>E. Porter, A. La Gioia, M. O&#8217;Halloran, \u201c<strong>Dielectric Measurement of Biological Tissues: Challenges with Heterogeneous Tissue and Metadata.<\/strong>\u201d <\/li><li>L. Farrugia, J. Bonello, C.V. Sammut, \u201c<strong>High frequency dielectric measurements of biological tissues.<\/strong>\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WG 2 \u2013 Towards better thermal-based EM therapies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WG2 Introduction by Dr. Maarten Paulides and Dr. Lorenzo Crocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opportunities and challenges in clinical hyperthermia by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Prof. Niloy Rajan Datta, Aarau Kantonspital, Switzerland.<\/li><li>Prof. Gerard van Rhoon, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, The Netherlands.<\/li><li>Opportunities and challenges in thermal ablation therapies by Dr. Kelvin Cortis, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta.<\/li><li>Dr. Fernando Burdio, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Structured open discussion on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>WG2 challenges (What are the clinical issues we have to face?)<\/li><li>WG2 perspectives (What are the opportunities you envisage?)<\/li><li>WG2 logistics (how to move forward?)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international workshop on Electromagnetic hyperthermic technologies, establishing the way forward. 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