Pink City, Radiobiophotonics and Normal Tissue Toxicity
AOCPM- AMPICON 2017- Mini-Symposia
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPI) and Asia Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (AFOMP), jointly hosts 17th Asia Oceania Congress of Medical Physics (AOCMP 2017) and 38th Annual Conference of Association of Medical Physicists of India (AMPICON 2017) at SMS Medical College and Hospitals, Jaipur, “Pink City” from 4th to 7th November 2017.
The theme for the conference is “Advances in Medical Physics: shaping the future of modern healthcare“.
The theme for the conference is “Advances in Medical Physics: shaping the future of modern healthcare“.
In response to the invitation, I have organized two mini-symposia at the conference.
1. Radiobiophotonics
2. Normal Tissue Toxicity- Firewall.
Mini Symposia on novel emerging topics of
Radiological Physics is designed by organizers as part of the conference. The symposiums obviously will cover topics of
Radiation Biology, Quality Assurance (QA), Radiation Protection, TG
reports, Radiomics of cancer, Molecular Imaging and advanced techniques
in diagnostics and therapy.
Radiobiophotonics & Normal Tissue Toxicity.
Symposium Coordinator & Speaker: Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Authors: Rao Papineni & Shahid Umar
University of Kansas Medical Center, PXI. Inc, and PACT & Health USA
Visualization
via "light" coupled with "ionizing radiation" has made a profound
impact both in understanding the disease mechanism and its treatment.
Rapid advances in photonics also aided in bridging the physics and
medicine towards the new front in Cancer Radiation Therapy. This
Session brings to forefront "Radiobiophotonics" bringing to fold the
rapidly growing fields pertaining to biophotonics in relation to
radiobiology and Radiation Therapy. These fields, Molecular Image
Guided Radiation Therapy (MIGRT), X-Ray Luminescence,
Radiobioluminescence, Microscopy, Cherenkov Luminescence and it's role
in microdosimetry, metastatic tumor phototherapy, activated nanodelivery
and particle therapy beam tracking will be discussed. The normal
tissue toxicity assessment during radiation therapy or Nuclear Accidents
using Radiobiophotonics will be elaborated. Epithelial
regeneration model will be used to describe the use of photonics in
assessing Normal tissue injury and pharmacological intervention.
Epithelial regeneration is critical for barrier maintenance and organ
function after intestinal injury. The intestinal stem cell (ISC) niche provides Wnt, Notch and epidermal growth factor (EGF) signals supporting Lgr5(+)
crypt base columnar ISCs for normal epithelial maintenance. Little is
known about the regulation of the ISC compartment after tissue damage. Exposure
to high doses of radiation triggers a number of potentially lethal
effects. Among the most severe is the gastrointestinal (GI) toxicity
syndrome caused by the destruction of the intestinal barrier, resulting
in bacterial translocation, systemic bacteremia, sepsis and death. The pathophysiological downstream events and the search of effective radioprotective agents by us will be highlighted. Further this symposia will describe the significance of such radiation pharma interventions as effective emergency nuclear countermeasures not only for patients undergoing abdominal irradiation for GI malignancies but to promote survival and delay mortality for victims of radiation exposure and nuclear disasters.
Other faculty at AMPICON 2017:
International Faculty
National Faculty
Jaipur “Pink city of India” is most celebrated
city of legendary Rajputana, the land of Rajput valour, still retains
its beauty and charm despite the process of modernization. It was
founded in 1727 AD by one of the great rulers of Kachhawaha clan, the
astronomer king Sawai Jai Singh II and still retains its splendid valor. Jaipur is is the capital city of Rajasthan and Rajasthan is perhaps the most tribally diverse, artistically
decorative and architecturally magnificent regal in India. It is the
land of royalty with lavish forts and majestic palaces that are apt
reminder of a rich and romantic past that speaks of heroism, honor and
chivalry.
Look forward to meeting friends and Colleagues.
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Papineni Labs
are Biomedical Research Labs in Honor of my Father Mr. Papineni Venkateswara
Rao.
"Molecular Imaging - Wisdom to See for
Maladies to Flee"
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Dr. Rao V. L. Papineni
Professor (Adjunct- assistant)
University of Kansas Medical Center KUMC
USA
Dr.
Rao V. L. Papineni is an Adjunct faculty member at University of Kansas
Medical Center, and a molecular theragnostics scientist at PXI, USA.
He received his doctoral degree in Biochemistry from University of Hong
Kong (British Terr). Dr. Papineni had his early education from
University of Madras, where he earned his Bachelors and Master’s Degree.
After ten years in Research and Faculty positions at University of Hong
Kong and Baylor college of Medicine (USA), he joined Kodak/Carestream
Health, USA. Dr. Papineni has made several inventions and chaired
scientific sessions in International Biomedical Meetings and serves on
the editorial board of Nanotech and Experimental Pharmacology
journals. As a distinguished scientist, he initiated advanced research
programs to study Inflammation and oncology utilizing molecular imaging
and nanotechnology based molecular tools. He recently identified and
coined “Radiobioluminescence” a novel X-ray induced radiation phenomena
that have immense potential in development of cancer therapeutic
strategies. His lab is instrumental in development of MIGRT Molecular
Image Guided Radiation Therapy technology and utilizing
radiobiophotonics and MIGRT in Drug Discovery related to Cancer and
radiation medicine.
