Dr. Carrie Minnaar specialises in
hyperthermic oncology and is well-recognised for her ongoing clinical trials in
this field. She holds a PhD in Radiation Sciences from Wits University (2019). Dr.
Minnaar has specialised in hyperthermic oncology since 2009, when she attended
training on local and whole-body hyperthermia techniques in Frankfurt, Germany.
Dr Minnaar’s PhD was dedicated to the improvement of treatment outcomes for
locally advanced HIV-positive and negative cervical cancer patients in resource
constrained settings in Africa.
Her work includes a positive phase III
trial using modulated electro hyperthermia combined with chemoradiotherapy; numerous
published papers on the results and in related fields of hyperthermia; and a co-author
of a book on hyperthermia. She has lectured and facilitated training on the
technique in oncology facilities around the world. Dr Minnaar is also a member
of the European Society for Therapeutic and Radiation Oncology (ESTRO); The
International Clinical Hyperthermia Society (ICHS); South African Radiobiology
Society; Society for Hyperthermic Oncology in Africa (SHOA); and Radiation
Oncology (ESTRO).
Dr. Minnaar is currently an honorary
lecturer at the Wits University; is researching the use of modulated
electro-hyperthermia for the management of brain tumours in adults and children;
and campaigning for the acceptance and inclusion of hyperthermia in oncology
practices in resource-constrained settings in Africa.
Dr. Gyula Péter Szigeti is a physician,
physiologist, and neurobiologist. Over the past 15 years, his teaching and
research activities have been supplemented by innovation and knowledge
management. His scientific expertise is in cellular physiology, intracellular
signalizations and mathematical modeling of biological systems. He has more
than 100 scientific publications in these areas. He previously worked at the
University of Debrecen and Semmelweis University in Hungary, and in the USA at
Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and the University at Buffalo also. He is currently an
associate professor at Obuda University, Hungary, the medical director of the
MedTech Laboratory, and the chairman of the University's Innovation Committee,
as well as he is director of the grant and project management department. In
addition, he is the founding CEO of Obuda University's Technology Transfer
Company, the CEO of Biogrant Ltd, and CSO of Vitahint AI Ltd.
Professor András Szász is the developer of the “oncothermia”
method and the founder of Oncotherm Germany/Hungary. As a small business, the
company currently exports to 34 countries and is intensively developing and
researching. Professor Szász’s research area is the fractal physiological
aspects of bioelectrodynamics and biocomplexity. He is working in collaboration
with several universities on developing bioelectrodynamics-based oncothermia.
He headed the Department of Biotechnology of the Hungarian University of
Agricultural and Life Sciences, and a few years ago he retired from this
position. He was a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde (UK),
Chiba University (Japan), and Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Hungary). He
also worked in an international research network dealing with oncological
hyperthermia studies. He has managed numerous applications and taught
biophysics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is the author and
co-author of more than 450 scientific publications (articles, conference
proceedings), and co-author of 8 books. In addition to his primary research
work, he considers practical development his task, which he has formulated in
more than 40 patents. The patents form the basis of the work of the Oncotherm
group of companies and the cohesion of the established commercial network. Prof.
Szasz is the scientific director of both (Hungarian and German) Oncotherm companies
(www.oncotherm.org). He currently works in Boston (USA).