Name: JS2026: 6th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine
Start: 2026-07-05T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-10T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Collegium Novodvorscianum

Monday, 6 July 2026

08:30 Registration and Coffee a Priori
Registration and Coffee a Priori
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Rector for Research of the Jagiellonian University - Wojciech Macyk (Jagiellonian University)

09:15 Welcome by European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI)

09:30 World Health Organization (WHO) Resolution on Strengthening Medical Imaging Capacity - John O. Prior (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland)

09:45 Advancing Molecular Imaging with Jagiellonian PET - Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
10:00 Opening Lecture by Prof. Habib Zaidi
Opening Lecture by Prof. Habib Zaidi
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Biological Multiplexing With PET: Interrogating Multiple Disease Biomarkers In A Single PET Scan - Craig Levin (Stanford University and University of Leeds)

11:25 From PALS To PLT: Randoms-Limited Precision & Activity Optimisation For Positronium Lifetime Tomography - Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)

11:45 Positronium Lifetime Imaging On The Biograph Vision Quadra: From Validation To First In-Vivo Clinical Results - Narendra Rathod

12:05 Fast 3D Positronium Lifetime Estimation - Hsin-Hsiung Huang (University of Central Florida)

12:25 Evaluation of Novel β⁺γ Emitters For Positronium Lifetime Imaging With The Modular J-PET Scanner - Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)
12:40 Conference Photo
Conference Photo
12:40 - 12:50

12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:10
Contributions

14:00 Advanced On-Board Imaging For Precision Small Animal Proton And Light Ion Radiation Research - Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

14:25 A Deep Learning Framework For Water-Equivalent Portal Dose Reconstruction And Treatment Error Detection Using E-PID Imaging For Phantoms And Patients - Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)

14:40 In-Beam PET For First In Vivo Proton Range Assessment In Small-Animal Therapy With Online Image Reconstruction - Giulio Lovatti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

14:55 Range Monitoring In Proton Therapy Using The J-PET Scanner: Extended Experimental Studies - Szymon Niedźwiecki (Jagiellonian University)
15:10
15:10 - 16:45
Contributions

15:10 Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner - Kenji Shimazoe (The University of Tokyo)

15:35 Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner - Youngho Seo (University of California, San Francisco)

15:55 Nuclear Medicine Imaging With Angular Correlation Measurement For Local Microenvironment Sensing - Mizuki Uenomachi (Institute of Science Tokyo)

16:15 Feasibility Study of 3-Gamma Imaging With TotalBody J-PET - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili

16:30 In Vivo Positronium Ratio Imaging Via Direct Localization of O-Ps Three-Photon Annihilation - Macoto Fujimoto
16:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:15
17:15
17:15 - 18:30
Contributions

17:15 From Radiopharmaceutical Development To Clinical Trials: Polatom’s Experience - Renata Mikołajczak (NCBJ, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Poland)

17:35 Subtype-Specific Insights In Breast Cancer Radiotheranostics - Martina Benešová-Schäfer (DKFZ)

17:55 Sustainable Inorganic-Organic Hybrids As Drug Delivery Systems - Agnieszka Kyzioł (Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University)

18:10 Implementation Of ETHOS Automated Adaptive Therapy In Patients Treated For Malignant Prostate Tumours - Marzena Janiszewska (Lower Silesian Oncology, Pulmonology and Hematology Center, Wroclaw, Poland)
19:00 Public lecture by Prof. Simon Cherry
Public lecture by Prof. Simon Cherry
19:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 7 July 2026

08:30 Coffee a Priori
Coffee a Priori
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Artificial Intelligence In Medicine - Mahadevappa Mahesh (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

09:25 An NLP-Based AI System For Post-Radiation Patient Triage - Joanna Polanska (Silesian University of Technology)

09:45 AI-Enhanced In Vitro And In Vivo Imaging of Preclinical Cancer Models - Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)

10:00 AI-based delineation of lymphoma lesions in FDG PET - Pavel Nikulin (Department of Positron Emission Tomography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany)
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45
10:45 - 12:35
Contributions

10:45 Quantum Entanglement of Positron Annihilation Quanta: From Exploration of Fundamental Aspects To Application In PET Imaging - Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

11:05 Interaction Profiling of β⁺γ Isotopes With An Edge-On CZT-Based Imaging System: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study - Shiva Abbaszadeh

11:25 Operational Signatures of Bell Photons Beyond Polarization Filters - Peter Caradonna (Ishikawa & Sato Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management)

11:45 Towards Rigorous Entanglement Detection of ParaPositronium Annihilation Photons - Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

12:05 Preliminary In Vivo Mouse Imaging Study Using Quantum Entanglement-Based PET - Koki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)

12:20 Measuring the Polarization Correlation of Annihilation Photons in e⁺e⁻ Decays using Modular J-PET - Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 13:50
13:50
13:50 - 15:10
Contributions

13:50 Beyond Scale: Detector Physics Perspectives On The Future of PET - Taiga Yamaya (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST))

14:15 Progress In Developing A Small Two-Head Prototype Scanner For Reconstruction-Free Direct Positron Emission Imaging - Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)

14:35 Ultra-High-Performance Brain PET (UHB-PET): Preliminary Results - Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)

14:55 First in-human Quantum Entanglement imaging - Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 16:35
Contributions

15:40 Testing Matter-Antimatter And Other Discrete Symmetries In Particle Physics - Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza University and INFN Rome, Italy)

16:05 Dalitz Plot Study For Ortho-Positronium Decays Into Three Photons With The J-PET Tomograph - Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)

16:20 Status of CPT Symmetry Test In Ortho-Positronium Decays With The Modular J-PET Detector - Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)
17:00 Baroque Concert in St. Anne's Collegiate Church
Baroque Concert in St. Anne's Collegiate Church
17:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 8 July 2026

08:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Inhalable Drug Delivery Systems Based On Lipids And Polymers To Treat Lung Diseases - Elżbieta Pamuła (AGH University of Krakow)

09:25 PET-Guided Endovascular Medicine - Miroslaw Janowski

09:45 AI-Designed Mini-Proteins For Targeted Imaging And Radiotherapy - Michal Bista (Fusiomica sp. z o.o.)
10:00 Keynote: Why Standardization Matters in Radiation Medicine
Keynote: Why Standardization Matters in Radiation Medicine
10:00 - 10:25

10:25 Panel: Medical Experiments & Clinical Trials
Panel: Medical Experiments & Clinical Trials
10:25 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 PET Imaging Innovations
PET Imaging Innovations
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Meta-scintillators: A Door Open To The 10 Ps Time-ofFlight PET Challenge - Paul Lecoq (CERN)

11:55 Quantitative reconstructions of Activity and Attenuation from time-of-flight PET data - Ahmadreza Rezaei (KU Leuven)

12:15 Analytical Modelling of Blank Scan for DetectorScattered Attenuation Correction (DSAC) - Satyam Tiwari (Jagiellonian University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Defects In Semiconductors As Seen By Positrons - Filip Tuomisto

14:25 Toward Positronium Imaging: Body Temperature Dependence And Gamma-Ray-Induced Positron Imaging - Sodai Takyu

14:44 The DRS4 Chip For PALS Measurements: The PSI Evaluation Board And The Integrated LifetimeSpec Tabletop Spectrometer - Torsten Staab (LCTM - Faculty of Chemistry - University Würzburg)
15:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 Light-Induced Desorption of Positronium - Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)

15:55 Positron Annihilation In Bio nanotechnology: Design Principles For Polymer-Based Biosensors - Taras Kavetskyy (Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University)

16:15 Development And Applications of New Nanomaterials For High Speed, High Efficiency And High-Resolution Radiation Detectors - Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)
17:40 Departure from Auditorium Maximum
Departure from Auditorium Maximum
17:40 - 17:45

18:30 Conference Banquet at Manor House in Modlnica
Conference Banquet at Manor House in Modlnica
18:30 - 20:30
Thursday, 9 July 2026

08:30 Coffee a priori
Coffee a priori
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:10
Contributions

09:00 Next-Generation Affordable PET for Public Health: From Wearable Brain PET to Total-Body PET - Qiyu Peng (ShenZhen Bay Laboratory)

09:25 Distinct Spatial Resolution Advantages of Combining The TB-J-PET With A Brain PET Insert - Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)

09:40 Flexible, Mobile And Modular PET Imaging - Gašper Razdevšek (Jožef Stefan Institute)

09:55 Performance Evaluation of A Brain PET Prototype With Crosshair Light-Sharing Detectors - Kurumi Narita (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan)
10:10
10:10 - 10:50
Contributions

10:10 Democratizing PET Worldwide - Thomas Beyer (QIMP Team)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:25
Contributions

11:20 Stem Cell Imaging For Cardiovascular Cellular Therapies - Maciej Kurpisz (Institute of Human Genetics, PAS)

11:45 Brain Imaging of Chronic Pain: Insights from Nuclear Medicine - Miwako Takahashi (QST)

12:10 From Syngeneic To Human Melanoma Models: Longitudinal Micro-CT Tracking of Metastatic Progression In Mice - Bartosz Leszczyński
12:25 Lunch
Lunch
12:25 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 A Fast Positron Lifetime Tomography Method And Initial Phantom And Animal Results - Chien-Min Kao (University of Chicago)

14:20 MC Simulation Studies Of O-Ps Imaging Of Single-Cell Tumor Growth Models In Anthropomorphic Phantoms - Joerg Peter (German Cancer Research Center)

14:40 Accelerator Based PET Innovations: Position Sensitive Imaging And ^44Ti/^44Sc Generator Development - Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)

15:00 NEMA Phantom Characteristics of Simultaneous Double Isotope Imaging With J-PET Using ^55Co + ^18F And ^52Mn + ^18F Isotopes - Ermias Yitayew Beyene

15:15 Positronium Lifetime Imaging Through Iterative Reconstruction Methods Utilizing J-PET And Biograph Vision Quadra - Anand Pandey (Jagiellonian University)
15:30 Conference Photo
Conference Photo
15:30 - 15:40

15:40 Poster Session & Coffee
Poster Session & Coffee
15:40 - 17:30
Friday, 10 July 2026

08:30 Coffee a Priori
Coffee a Priori
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:35
Contributions

09:00 Studies of The Phi-Nucleon Interaction Using FinalState Interactions - Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)

09:25 Hyperonic Interaction Studies At The LHC To Understand Neutron Stars - Raffaele Del Grande (LNF-INFN)

09:45 Exotic Case: Possible Observation Of A Bound Diproton & It’s Decay In An Unbound Deuteron - Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

10:05 From Medical Isotope Research To Fundamental Nuclear Physics: Sub-Threshold 99mTc Production Suggests Possible Bound Dineutron State - Lars Eggimann (University of Bern)

10:20 µPPET Detector System - Alessio Porcelli (Jagiellonian University)
10:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 - 11:05
11:05
11:05 - 12:25
Contributions

11:05 Advances In Positronium Microwave Spectroscopy - David Cassidy (University College London)

11:30 Portable J-PET modules as a reconfigurable detection system for antimatter physics - Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)

11:50 Probing The Nuclear Periphery Via The Cold Annihilation of Antiprotonic Atoms - Fredrik Olof Andre Parnefjord Gustafsson (CERN, Switzerland)

12:10 Beyond The Exponential Law: What Fluorescence Reveals About Quantum Decay - Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)
12:25 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:25 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Generation of Exotic Ions Through The Collision of Slow Positrons With Solid Surfaces And Their Applications In Atomic Physics - Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)

14:25 Spectroscopy of Pionic Atoms & η' Mesic Nuclei - Kenta Itahashi (Department of Physics, The University of Osaka)

14:45 Validated Optical Photon Modeling of Long Plastic Scintillators For Precision Timing Applications - Sumit Kumar Kundu (Jagiellonian University)
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 How AI Is Reshaping Next-Generation PET Systems Design - Volkmar Schultz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

15:25 Positronium Imaging Through Energy Measurements In 3-Gamma Annihilation Events - Krzysztof Starosta (Simon Fraser University)

15:45 Integration of Compton Camera With PET: A Compton-PET System Towards Multi-Energy Radionuclide Imaging - Siddharth Parashari (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC-UV))
16:00 Closing Lecture by Prof. Stefan Ulmer
Closing Lecture by Prof. Stefan Ulmer
16:00 - 16:30

16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00

17:00 Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony
Award Presentation & Closing Ceremony
17:00 - 17:30