The PIANOFORTE Event was held in Budapest 5-6 December 2023. The first day was devoted to presentations of all work packages achievements these past months and with focus on the results of the PIANOFORTE first Open Call for R&I projects. In the second day, the projects chosen for funding in the PIANOFORTE first open call were presented.
The first PIANOFORTE open call included 3 research topics:
Topic 1: Developing a knowledge base for a better understanding of disease pathogenesis of ionising radiation-induced cancer to improve risk assessment.
Topic 2: Individualised diagnostic as well as therapeutic procedures with regard to optimisation of the benefit/risk ratio.
Topic 3: Development of risk assessment and risk management approaches and technological capabilities to cope with scenarios arising from threats due to war or armed conflict situations or natural disasters, taking into consideration social, ethical, and legal issues.
The 9 projects to be funded by PIANOFORTE are:
Topic 1:
DISCOVER - Dissecting radIation effectS into the Cerebellum micrOenVironmEnt driving tumour pRomotion.
Topic 2:
SONORA - Towards safe, optimized and personalized radiology and radiotherapy procedures for pregnant patients.
LutADose - Personalized dosimetry to improve the clinical outcome of prostate cancer patients treated with 177Lu/225Ac-PSMA targeted therapies.
VERIFIED - In vivo patient-specific real-time dosimetry for adaptive radiotherapy.
IMAGEOMICS - Optimizing Benefit/Risk Ratio in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Radiotherapy: Identifying Molecular, Cellular and Imaging Signatures of Breast Cancer Heterogeneity to Improve Personalized Therapeutic Strategies for Synergistic Treatment Combinations.
IMMPRINT - Integrated molecular Imaging for Personalized Biomarker-based Breast Cancer Characterization and Treatment.
Topic 3:
RRADEW - Resilience to RADiological Events in Wartime.
CITISTRA - Citizen measurements as complementary radiation monitoring strategy in threats due to armed conflict or natural disasters.
PREDICT - ImPRovements in atmospheric dispErsion moDellIng and proteCTive action strategies in case of nuclear detonations.
The presentations can be downloaded here.
Participants in the PIANOFORTE General Assembly at Budapest, Hungary.