Scientific program

Detailed Preliminary Program (may still undergo changes)

Preliminary Poster List

Keynote- Lectures (25+5 min):


Colin Hopper
University College London, UK

Overview of clinical PDT-related activities / studies worldwide


Vanderlei Bagnato
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
BMEN – Texas A&M University, USA

Breaking down the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics


Timothy Zhu
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

PDT-related activation mechanisms

Kristjan Plaetzer
Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria

Antimicrobial PDT in a One Health World


Gal Shafirstein
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, USA

Clinical light application and clinical light dosimetry including image-dosimetry in I-PDT


Sara Abdel Gaber
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

Nanoparticles in PDT


Steffen Hackbarth
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Singlet Oxygen Detection in PDT

Prof. Walter Stummer
Department of Neusosurgery University Hospital Münster, Germany
Dr. Juliane Schröteler
Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital Münster, Germany
Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Osnabrück, Germany

Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy in Neurosurgery in Germany

PDT School: Basics and introduction for young scientists or those new to the field of PD & PDT.

More details will follow here soon.