$500 travel grants were awarded to New Investigators to encourage participation at the 2016 ICHO. Awards were given based on a competitive evaluation of submitted applications and abstracts by the ICHO Awards Committee.
Matthew Adams
“Development of MR-guided endoluminal ultrasound applicators for thermal ablation of pancreatic cancer: design and evaluations in ex vivo and in vivo porcine studies”
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Bassim Aklan
“Hyperthermia treatment planning: Impact of variation in manual tissue-segmentation on the simulated temperature distribution”
Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Kathleen Ashcraft
“Enhanced efficacy of radiotherapy by voluntary exercise is dependent on a thermoneutral environment”
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Akke Bakker
“Scar tissue is more at risk of developing thermal skin damage in recurrent breast cancer patients treated with reirradiation and hyperthermia”
AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sarah Brueningk
“A comprehensive model of hyperthermia and radiotherapy induced cell death”
The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK
Mark Bucsek
“The impact of β-adrenergic signaling on radioresistance and anti-tumor immunity in murine tumor models”
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
Tejan Diwanji
“Multidisciplinary Management Of Unresectable Verrucous Carcinoma Of The Genitals, i.e. Buschke-Lowenstein Tumor, With Combined External Beam Radiation and Hyperthermia: A Case Report”
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Kalyani Ektate
"Ultrasound monitoring of tumor temperature and drug delivery with echogenic thermosensitive liposomes"
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Samuel Fahrenholtz
“Laser ablation prediction via global optimization and cross-validation”
Department of Imaging Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Taylor Ibelli
“Photothermal Ablation of Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus using Fluorescent Bio-Polymer Nanoparticles”
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Paras Jawaid
“Effects of nanoparticles on the cell killing induced by different physical stressors”
Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
Samir Jenkins
“Photothermal Treatment and Radiosensitization of Breast Cancer Cells using Targeted Polydopamine Coated Gold Nanocages”
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Thomas Longo
“HEAT-TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY USING A NOVEL CONDUCTIVE BLADDER HYPERTHERMIA DEVICE”
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Eleanor McCabe-Lankford
“Near-Infrared Nanoparticle Mediated Hyperthermia In Colorectal Cancer Spheroids: A Tissue Phantom Study”
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Daniel Meeker
“Designing novel antibiotic-loaded, targeted nanoparticles to eradicate Staphylococcus aureus planktonic cultures and biofilms”
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Hendrik Thijmen Mulder
“Optimal path length correction for the Sigma Eye applicator for Hyperthermia Treatment Planning”
Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rupal Parikh
“Extreme Exotherms using Polyprotic Acids with Polyamines for Thermochemical Ablation”
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Elles Raaijmakers
“An MRI-Compatible Hyperthermia Applicator for Small Animals”
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mati Ur Rehman
“Cold atmospheric helium plasma (He-CAP) and mild hyperthermia in combination causes enhancement in cell killing mainly via generation of reactive oxygen species”
Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Stephanie Rice
“External thermal therapy (ETT) as an adjunct to radiation therapy in the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma”
University of Maryland Department of Radiation Oncology, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dario Rodrigues
“Towards integration of non-invasive temperature measurement with microwave radiometry for improved control of superficial hyperthermia array applicators”
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jan Sebek
“Sensitivity of microwave ablation models to tissue biophysical properties: application to model-based treatment planning”
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
James Snider, III
“Concurrent Interstitial Thermal Therapy and Interstitial Brachytherapy for Recurrent and Bulky Pelvic Malignancies: A Single Institution Experience”
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Frederik Soetaert
“Influence of magnetic nanoparticle location on the survival of SKBR3 cells”
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Stefan Stangl
“Membrane associated Hsp70 as a tumor-specific target structure for theranostic in vivo targeting of a wide variety of malignancies”
Department of Radiation Oncology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU München, Munich, Germany
Caspar M. van Leeuwen
“The effect of the time interval between radiotherapy and hyperthermia on treatment outcome in cervical cancer”
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joshua VanOsdol
“Targeted intratumoral doxorubicin delivery by ultrasound-imageable low temperature sensitive liposomes and high intensity focused ultrasound mild hyperthermia”
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
Chencai Wang
“Heating Efficiency of Colloidal Magnetic Fluids with Nonlinear Loss Properties and Aggregate Formation”
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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<span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;"> $500 travel grants were awarded to New Investigators to encourage participation at the <a href="http://www.thermaltherapy.org/ebusSFTM/ICHO2016.aspx">2016 ICHO</a>. Awards were given based on a competitive evaluation of submitted applications and abstracts by the ICHO Awards Committee.</span></span>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;"><strong>Matthew Adams</strong><strong></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;"><em>“Development of MR-guided endoluminal ultrasound applicators for thermal ablation of pancreatic cancer: design and evaluations in ex vivo and in vivo porcine studies” </em><em></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Bassim Aklan </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Hyperthermia treatment planning: Impact of variation in manual tissue-segmentation on the simulated temperature distribution” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Kathleen Ashcraft </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Enhanced efficacy of radiotherapy by voluntary exercise is dependent on a thermoneutral environment” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;"><strong>Akke Bakker </strong><strong></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Scar tissue is more at risk of developing thermal skin damage in recurrent breast cancer patients treated with reirradiation and hyperthermia” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands <br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Sarah Brueningk</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“A comprehensive model of hyperthermia and radiotherapy induced cell death”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Mark Bucsek </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“The impact of β-adrenergic signaling on radioresistance and anti-tumor immunity in murine tumor models”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Tejan Diwanji </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Multidisciplinary Management Of Unresectable Verrucous Carcinoma Of The Genitals, i.e. Buschke-Lowenstein Tumor, With Combined External Beam Radiation and Hyperthermia: A Case Report” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">"Ultrasound monitoring of tumor temperature and drug delivery with echogenic thermosensitive liposomes" </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Samuel Fahrenholtz </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Laser ablation prediction via global optimization and cross-validation” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Department of Imaging Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Taylor Ibelli </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Photothermal Ablation of Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus using Fluorescent Bio-Polymer Nanoparticles” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Paras Jawaid </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Effects of nanoparticles on the cell killing induced by different physical stressors” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Toyama University, Toyama, Japan<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Samir Jenkins </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Photothermal Treatment and Radiosensitization of Breast Cancer Cells using Targeted Polydopamine Coated Gold Nanocages”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Thomas Longo </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“HEAT-TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY USING A NOVEL CONDUCTIVE BLADDER HYPERTHERMIA DEVICE”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;"><strong></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Eleanor McCabe-Lankford </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Near-Infrared Nanoparticle Mediated Hyperthermia In Colorectal Cancer Spheroids: A Tissue Phantom Study” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Daniel Meeker</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Designing novel antibiotic-loaded, targeted nanoparticles to eradicate Staphylococcus aureus planktonic cultures and biofilms” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Hendrik Thijmen Mulder </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Optimal path length correction for the Sigma Eye applicator for Hyperthermia Treatment Planning”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Rupal Parikh </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Extreme Exotherms using Polyprotic Acids with Polyamines for Thermochemical Ablation”</span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Elles Raaijmakers </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“An MRI-Compatible Hyperthermia Applicator for Small Animals” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Mati Ur Rehman </span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">“Cold atmospheric helium plasma (He-CAP) and mild hyperthermia in combination causes enhancement in cell killing mainly via generation of reactive oxygen species” </span></em></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.6499999761581421px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; color: #000000;">Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan<br />
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