ImmunoRad 2026 Abstract Winners
Hacene Bekkar
Hacene Bekkar is a research engineer in Medical Physics at Gustave Roussy within the U1355 research unit, under the supervision of Charlotte Robert, PhD.
He graduated with a Master's degree in Medical Radiophysics from Université Paris-Saclay and passed the national medical physics residency entry exam (DQPRM).
His current research focuses on modeling dose to lymphocytes in the context of radiation-induced lymphopenia in external radiotherapy for multisite pathologies.
He previously conducted research under Ross Berbeco, PhD, at the Berbeco Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, on deep learning-based segmentation of brain metastases on MR imaging, and at CERN's CLEAR facility, where he worked on VHEE/FLASH dosimetry under Pierre Korysko, PhD.
Céline Chevaleyre
Dr. Céline Chevaleyre completed her PharmD and PhD in France, where she specialized in molecular imaging and brain delivery of immunotherapies.
She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Her work focuses on the development of advanced imaging strategies to study and improve cancer therapies, with a particular emphasis on cell therapies.
Gary Hannon
Dr. Hannon received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2020, where he developed and tested cancer nanomedicines.
He is currently undergoing postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he investigates the immunological effects of radiation and how they can be leveraged to enhance the effects of combination therapies.
