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New Research in Ionizing Radiation and Nanoparticles: The ARGENT Project

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This chapter gives an overview of “ARGENT ” (“Advanced Radiotherapy , Generated by Exploiting Nanoprocesses and Technologies”) , an ongoing international Initial Training Network project , supported by the European Commission . The project , bringing together world-leading researchers in physics, medical physics, chemistry, and biology, aims to train 13 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) whose research activities are linked to understanding and exploiting the nanoscale processes that drive physical, chemical, and biological effects induced by ionizing radiation in the presence of radiosensitizing nanoparticles . This research is at the forefront of current practices and involves many experts from the respective scientific disciplines. In this chapter, we overview research topics covered by ARGENT and briefly describe the research projects of each ESR.

S. Lacombe—On behalf of the ARGENT consortium, see http://www.itn-argent.eu.

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The authors acknowledge financial support from the European Union’s FP7 People Program (Marie Curie Actions) within the Initial Training Network No. 608163 “ARGENT”.

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  1. Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    M. Bolsa Ferruz, V. Ivošev & S. Lacombe

  2. Department of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    K. Haume, Pablo de Vera & Nigel J. Mason

  3. MBN Research Center, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    K. Haume, Pablo de Vera & Alexey Verkhovtsev

  4. MBN Research Center at Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie, Altenhöferallee 3, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Andrey V. Solov’yov

  5. A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Polytekhnicheskaya Ul. 26, 194021, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Andrey V. Solov’yov

  6. Instituto de Física Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 113-bis, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    L. Ellis-Gibbings, A. Traore, V. Thakare, Alexey Verkhovtsev & Gustavo García

  7. CheMatech, 9 Avenue Alain Savary, 21000, Dijon, France

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  8. Institute of Molecular Chemistry, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France

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  9. Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 7AE, UK

    S. Rosa, K. T. Butterworth & K. M. Prise

  10. School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, UK

    Pablo de Vera & F. J. Currell

  11. Team FENNEC, Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    V.-L. Tran, F. Lux & O. Tillement

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Bolsa Ferruz, M. et al. (2017). New Research in Ionizing Radiation and Nanoparticles: The ARGENT Project. In: Solov’yov, A. (eds) Nanoscale Insights into Ion-Beam Cancer Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43030-0_12

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