JS2026: 6th Jagiellonian Symposium on Advances in Particle Physics and Medicine

5 Jul 2026, 10:00 → 10 Jul 2026, 20:30 Europe/Warsaw

Collegium Novodvorscianum

Prof. Paweł Moskal, Prof. Ewa Stępień

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Sunday, 5 July

15:30 → 16:15 Visit to the UJ Museum

16:15 → 20:15 Welcome Reception

Monday, 6 July

08:30 → 09:00 Registration and Coffee a Priori

09:00 → 10:00 Opening Ceremony

09:00 Rector for Research of the Jagiellonian University

Speaker: Prof. 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

Speaker: Prof. John O. Prior (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland)

09:45 Advancing Molecular Imaging with Jagiellonian PET

Speakers: Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) , Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

10:00 → 10:30 Opening Lecture by Prof. Habib Zaidi

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Multiplexed PET & Positronium Imaging

11:00 Biological Multiplexing With PET: Interrogating Multiple Disease Biomarkers In A Single PET Scan

Speaker: Craig Levin (Stanford University and University of Leeds)

11:25 From PALS To PLT: Randoms-Limited Precision & Activity Optimisation For Positronium Lifetime Tomography

Speaker: Jinyi Qi (UC Davis)

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

Speaker: Narendra Rathod

12:05 Fast 3D Positronium Lifetime Estimation

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Manish Das (Jagielloninan University)

12:40 → 12:50 Conference Photo

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:10 Particle Therapy Monitoring

14:00 Advanced On-Board Imaging For Precision Small Animal Proton And Light Ion Radiation Research

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)

14:40 In-Beam PET For First In Vivo Proton Range Assessment In Small-Animal Therapy With Online Image Reconstruction

Speaker: Giulio Lovatti (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

14:55 Range Monitoring In Proton Therapy Using The J-PET Scanner: Extended Experimental Studies

Speaker: Szymon Niedźwiecki (Jagiellonian University)

15:10 → 16:45 PET Imaging Innovations (QE)

15:10 Positronium Ratio Imaging, Quantum Entangled PET And Double Photon Emission Imaging With A RingType Compton-PET Scanner

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Youngho Seo (University of California, San Francisco)

15:55 Nuclear Medicine Imaging With Angular Correlation Measurement For Local Microenvironment Sensing

Speaker: Mizuki Uenomachi (Institute of Science Tokyo)

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

Speaker: Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili

16:30 In Vivo Positronium Ratio Imaging Via Direct Localization of O-Ps Three-Photon Annihilation

Speaker: Macoto Fujimoto

16:45 → 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 → 18:30 Radiopharmaceuticals for Theranostics

17:15 From Radiopharmaceutical Development To Clinical Trials: Polatom’s Experience

Speaker: Renata Mikołajczak (NCBJ, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Poland)

17:35 Subtype-Specific Insights In Breast Cancer Radiotheranostics

Speaker: Martina Benešová-Schäfer (DKFZ)

17:55 Sustainable Inorganic-Organic Hybrids As Drug Delivery Systems

Speaker: Agnieszka Kyzioł (Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University)

18:10 Implementation Of ETHOS Automated Adaptive Therapy In Patients Treated For Malignant Prostate Tumours

Speaker: Marzena Janiszewska (Lower Silesian Oncology, Pulmonology and Hematology Center, Wroclaw, Poland)

19:00 → 20:00 Public lecture by Prof. Simon Cherry

In the historical hall of Collegium Novum

Tuesday, 7 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a Priori

09:00 → 10:15 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

09:00 Artificial Intelligence In Medicine

Speaker: Mahadevappa Mahesh (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

09:25 An NLP-Based AI System For Post-Radiation Patient Triage

Speaker: Joanna Polanska (Silesian University of Technology)

09:45 AI-Enhanced In Vitro And In Vivo Imaging of Preclinical Cancer Models

Speaker: Martyna Krzykawska-Serda (Jagiellonian University)

10:00 AI-based delineation of lymphoma lesions in FDG PET

Speaker: Pavel Nikulin (Department of Positron Emission Tomography, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research, Dresden, Germany)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:35 Quantum Entanglement in Positron Emission Tomography

10:45 Quantum Entanglement of Positron Annihilation Quanta: From Exploration of Fundamental Aspects To Application In PET Imaging

Speaker: Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

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

Speaker: Shiva Abbaszadeh

11:25 Operational Signatures of Bell Photons Beyond Polarization Filters

Speaker: Peter Caradonna (Ishikawa & Sato Laboratory, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management)

11:45 Towards Rigorous Entanglement Detection of ParaPositronium Annihilation Photons

Speaker: Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

12:05 Preliminary In Vivo Mouse Imaging Study Using Quantum Entanglement-Based PET

Speaker: Koki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)

12:20 Measuring the Polarization Correlation of Annihilation Photons in e⁺e⁻ Decays using Modular J-PET

Speaker: Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University)

12:35 → 13:50 Lunch

13:50 → 15:10 PET and Brain-PET Imaging Innovations

13:50 Beyond Scale: Detector Physics Perspectives On The Future of PET

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Sun Il Kwon (University of California Davis)

14:35 Ultra-High-Performance Brain PET (UHB-PET): Preliminary Results

Speaker: Sadek Nehmeh (Weill Cornell Medical College)

14:55 First in-human Quantum Entanglement imaging

Speaker: Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

15:10 → 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 → 16:35 Antimatter in Fundamental Physics

15:40 Testing Matter-Antimatter And Other Discrete Symmetries In Particle Physics

Speaker: Antonio Di Domenico (Sapienza University and INFN Rome, Italy)

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16:05 Dalitz Plot Study For Ortho-Positronium Decays Into Three Photons With The J-PET Tomograph

Speaker: Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University)

16:20 Status of CPT Symmetry Test In Ortho-Positronium Decays With The Modular J-PET Detector

Speaker: Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)

17:00 → 19:00 Baroque Concert in St. Anne's Collegiate Church

Wednesday, 8 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee break

09:00 → 10:00 Advances in Theranostics

09:00 Inhalable Drug Delivery Systems Based On Lipids And Polymers To Treat Lung Diseases

Speaker: Elżbieta Pamuła (AGH University of Krakow)

09:25 PET-Guided Endovascular Medicine

Speaker: Miroslaw Janowski

09:45 AI-Designed Mini-Proteins For Targeted Imaging And Radiotherapy

Speaker: Michal Bista (Fusiomica sp. z o.o.)

10:00 → 10:25 Keynote: Why Standardization Matters in Radiation Medicine

by Prof. Pawel Olko

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

Chair: Prof. Mahadevappa Mahesh
Panelists: Prof. Beyer, Prof. Olko, Prof. Schulz, Prof.
Janowski, Prof. Stępień

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 PET Imaging Innovations

11:30 Meta-scintillators: A Door Open To The 10 Ps Time-ofFlight PET Challenge

Speaker: Paul Lecoq (CERN)

11:55 Quantitative reconstructions of Activity and Attenuation from time-of-flight PET data

Speaker: Ahmadreza Rezaei (KU Leuven)

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12:15 Analytical Modelling of Blank Scan for DetectorScattered Attenuation Correction (DSAC)

Speaker: Satyam Tiwari (Jagiellonian University)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Antimatter in Material Physics & Medicine

14:00 Defects In Semiconductors As Seen By Positrons

Speaker: Filip Tuomisto

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

Speaker: Sodai Takyu

14:44 The DRS4 Chip For PALS Measurements: The PSI Evaluation Board And The Integrated LifetimeSpec Tabletop Spectrometer

Speaker: Torsten Staab (LCTM - Faculty of Chemistry - University Würzburg)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:30 Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics

15:30 Light-Induced Desorption of Positronium

Speaker: Jakub Cizek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University)

15:55 Positron Annihilation In Bio nanotechnology: Design Principles For Polymer-Based Biosensors

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Marian Cholewa (University of Rzeszow)

17:40 → 17:45 Departure from Auditorium Maximum

18:30 → 20:30 Conference Banquet at Manor House in Modlnica

Thursday, 9 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a priori

09:00 → 10:10 PET Imaging Innovations & Total-body PET

09:00 Next-Generation Affordable PET for Public Health: From Wearable Brain PET to Total-Body PET

Speaker: Qiyu Peng (ShenZhen Bay Laboratory)

09:25 Distinct Spatial Resolution Advantages of Combining The TB-J-PET With A Brain PET Insert

Speaker: Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)

09:40 Flexible, Mobile And Modular PET Imaging

Speaker: Gašper Razdevšek (Jožef Stefan Institute)

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09:55 Performance Evaluation of A Brain PET Prototype With Crosshair Light-Sharing Detectors

Speaker: Kurumi Narita (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Japan)

10:10 → 10:50 Panel: Democratizing PET Worldwide

10:10 Democratizing PET Worldwide

Speaker: Thomas Beyer (QIMP Team)

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:25 Progress in Cell Therapy & Brain Imaging

11:20 Stem Cell Imaging For Cardiovascular Cellular Therapies

Speaker: Maciej Kurpisz (Institute of Human Genetics, PAS)

11:45 Brain Imaging of Chronic Pain: Insights from Nuclear Medicine

Speaker: Miwako Takahashi (QST)

12:10 From Syngeneic To Human Melanoma Models: Longitudinal Micro-CT Tracking of Metastatic Progression In Mice

Speaker: Bartosz Leszczyński

12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations

14:00 A Fast Positron Lifetime Tomography Method And Initial Phantom And Animal Results

Speaker: Chien-Min Kao (University of Chicago)

14:20 MC Simulation Studies Of O-Ps Imaging Of Single-Cell Tumor Growth Models In Anthropomorphic Phantoms

Speaker: Joerg Peter (German Cancer Research Center)

14:40 Accelerator Based PET Innovations: Position Sensitive Imaging And ^44Ti/^44Sc Generator Development

Speaker: Pete Jones (iThemba LABS)

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

Speaker: Ermias Yitayew Beyene

15:15 Positronium Lifetime Imaging Through Iterative Reconstruction Methods Utilizing J-PET And Biograph Vision Quadra

Speaker: Anand Pandey (Jagiellonian University)

15:30 → 15:40 Conference Photo

15:40 → 17:30 Poster Session & Coffee

Friday, 10 July

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee a Priori

09:00 → 10:35 Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics

09:00 Studies of The Phi-Nucleon Interaction Using FinalState Interactions

Speaker: Takatsugu Ishikawa (Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University)

09:25 Hyperonic Interaction Studies At The LHC To Understand Neutron Stars

Speaker: Raffaele Del Grande (LNF-INFN)

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09:45 Exotic Case: Possible Observation Of A Bound Diproton & It’s Decay In An Unbound Deuteron

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Lars Eggimann (University of Bern)

10:20 µPPET Detector System

Speaker: Alessio Porcelli (Jagiellonian University)

10:35 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 12:25 Antimatter in Fundamental & Material Physics

11:05 Advances In Positronium Microwave Spectroscopy

Speaker: David Cassidy (University College London)

11:30 Portable J-PET modules as a reconfigurable detection system for antimatter physics

Speaker: Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)

11:50 Probing The Nuclear Periphery Via The Cold Annihilation of Antiprotonic Atoms

Speaker: Fredrik Olof Andre Parnefjord Gustafsson (CERN, Switzerland)

12:10 Beyond The Exponential Law: What Fluorescence Reveals About Quantum Decay

Speaker: Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)

12:25 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Exotic Atoms & Nuclei, Nuclear Physics

14:00 Generation of Exotic Ions Through The Collision of Slow Positrons With Solid Surfaces And Their Applications In Atomic Physics

Speaker: Yasuyuki Nagashima (Tokyo University of Science)

14:25 Spectroscopy of Pionic Atoms & η' Mesic Nuclei

Speaker: Kenta Itahashi (Department of Physics, The University of Osaka)

14:45 Validated Optical Photon Modeling of Long Plastic Scintillators For Precision Timing Applications

Speaker: Sumit Kumar Kundu (Jagiellonian University)

15:00 → 16:00 PET & Positronium Imaging Innovations

15:00 How AI Is Reshaping Next-Generation PET Systems Design

Speaker: Volkmar Schultz (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

15:25 Positronium Imaging Through Energy Measurements In 3-Gamma Annihilation Events

Speaker: Krzysztof Starosta (Simon Fraser University)

15:45 Integration of Compton Camera With PET: A Compton-PET System Towards Multi-Energy Radionuclide Imaging

Speaker: Siddharth Parashari (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC-UV))

16:00 → 16:30 Closing Lecture by Prof. Stefan Ulmer

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

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