{"id":225,"count":1,"description":"Sandro Rossi is General Director of the National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy in Pavia, created and financed by the Italian Ministry of Health with the purpose of treating oncological patients with innovative techniques based on the use of particle beams (protons, carbon ions).\r\nSandro Rossi coordinated first as Technical Director and since 2008 as General Director, the design, construction and operation of the accelerators and the medical devices for the treatment of patients. More than 600 companies contributed to the construction of the facility for a total budget of about 170 million euros. More than 20 national and international institutions have provided qualified resources and skills to complement a project group which has now 170 people, including physicists, engineers, medical doctors, technicians, health care and administration operative staff. CNAO treated so far more than 5200 patients with very positive results and beamtime is also devoted to research activities with groups coming from all over the world. An expansion project is ongoing and next year two new facilities will be operational: one single room for protons with dedicated synchrotron and gantry; one BNCT accelerator serving two rooms, one for research and one for clinics.\r\nSince April 2021, Sandro Rossi is coordinator of the international project HITRIplus (Heavy Ion Therapy Research Integration plus) approved and financed by EU commission (EU Infrastructure grant 2020 number 101008584 ). HITRIplus is a multidisciplinary collaborative project aiming to integrate and advance biophysics and medical research in cancer treatment with heavy ions and in parallel jointly developing innovative technologies for the next generation tools. It is a consortium composed of 23 Institutes from 14 European countries engaging all relevant stakeholders and bringing together the four European ion therapy centres with leading EU industries, academia and research laboratories.\r\nDuring his career Sandro Rossi has published several scientific articles, is a member of committees and commissions, has participated as a speaker in many conferences and for some years he has taught University courses in Physics and Particle Physics Applied to Medicine. He has also received a contract as a Scientific Associate at CERN to participate to the Proton-Ion Medical Machine Study (PIMMS) and has been Technical Director and board member of the TERA Foundation, Novara (Italy).\r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.paviainnovationweek.it\/en\/relatore\/sandro-rossi\/","name":"Sandro Rossi","slug":"sandro-rossi","taxonomy":"relatore","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paviainnovationweek.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/relatore\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paviainnovationweek.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/relatore"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paviainnovationweek.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/relatore"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paviainnovationweek.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evento?relatore=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}