The nomination slate for the next ASTRO President has been announced. Once again, Neha Vapiwala is on the ticket to be the next president! Below are a few words to share why she's got my vote, even though her running mate is a wonderful alternative.

Neha is a tireless advocate…

FLASH Radiotherapy: What Can FLASH's Ultra High Dose Rate Offer to the Treatment of Patients With Sarcoma? - ScienceDirect ⁦Eric Diffenderfer, Ph.D.⁩ ⁦Michele Kim⁩ ⁦Costas Koumenis⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share our latest paper. In partnership with #IBA , and colleagues at #PennRadOnc , we show that Proton #FLASH_RT significantly reduces normal tissue toxicity and improves survival in preclinical mouse models of Head & Neck cancer Swati Girdhani aacrjournals.org/mct/article/do…

Out now! Simultaneous publication with #AACR24 Check out the 2 posters related to work recently published at Molecular Cancer Therapeutics by the lab of Costas Koumenis
Section #29 Board #18 and #4

Huge congrats George, great work on #FLASH_RT . Grateful to #AACR for generously supporting the next generation of Oncology scientists.

Congratulations to George Morcos and the other Thouron Scholars! George will be heading to Cambridge University for a Masters degree and continue work in #radiationoncology . We'll definitely miss him in the lab, and wish him all the best in the UK.

Dear colleagues in the #TME and #CellStress areas: Please retweet & advertise this meeting. It is a continuation of the successful Aegean Conference series. Great speakers, beautiful environment, ample opportunities for discussions. Several trainee travel awards available!

I had a wonderful time @uwradoc as Visiting Professor. Great discussions with the RadOnc residents and students about the exciting clinical and translational work at their Proton and Neutron therapy centers. An added bonus: Seattle weather was spectacular this weekend!

FLASH proton radiotherapy mitigates radiation-induced heart disease. Read this new #RedJournal article from Yiannis Verginadis et. al. #radonc bit.ly/verginadis1

Makes perfect sense.

Excited to share our latest paper in IJROBP - The Red Journal : redjournal.org/article/S0360-…, highlighting that @Flash proton radiotherapy mitigates radiation-induced heart disease.

Had a great visit to Huntsman Cancer Institute Institute and University of Utah where I gave two lectures on the ISR and FLASH RT. Had great discussions with faculty, RadOnc residents and students and caught up with some dear friends and colleagues. Time to hit the slopes which just got fresh snow.

#OnlineFirst : miR-217 regulates normal and tumor cell fate following induction of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, by Neekkan Dey et al.
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Costas Koumenis Case Comp Cancer Ctr Penn UC San Francisco #ERstress

First Penn RadOnc Division holiday party since the pandemic. Grateful to the dedicated business office folks, trainees and faculty for a productive and successful year! My contribution to the potluck: homemade Greek bougatsa! Happy Holiday season!

Had fun participating in the 'Balloon Debate' at #FRPT2023 today, arguing in favor of #FLASH_RT as the most promising #radiotherapy modality in the next 10 years. Thanks to my co-debaters and moderators for a lively discussion!

Balloon debate #FRPT2023
The greatest advance in RT will come from
FLASH
SFRT
AI
Combination therapies

And the future of radiation is…. #FLASHrt and AI! A tie at #FRPT23 ⁦FLASH Radiotherapy & Particle Therapy⁩ ⁦T O R O N T O 🍁⁩

Wonderful talk by our own Penn Radiation Oncology Residency faculty Michele Kim providing updates on the development and delivery of Conformal #FLASH_RT radiotherapy to canine patients as we move forward towards clinical implementation.

Really interesting work from P Chowdhury from Penn on FLASH versus conventional protons some really impressive results

Alexander Lin ⁦Penn Medicine⁩ outlines preclinical to patient “ways to think big” with pragmatic integration of #FLASHrt into multimodal cancer therapy. #FRPT23 ⁦FLASH Radiotherapy & Particle Therapy⁩