| Abstract: | This topical issue collates a series of papers based on new data reported at the thirdNano-IBCT Conference of the COST Action MP1002: Nanoscale Insights into Ion Beam CancerTherapy, held in Boppard, Germany, from October 27th to October 31st, 2014. The Nano-IBCTCOST Action was launched in December 2010 and brought together more than 300 experts fromdifferent disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) with specialists in radiation damageof biological matter from hadron-therapy centres, and medical institutions. This meetingfollowed the first and the second conferences of the Action held in October 2011 in Caen,France and in May 2013 in Sopot, Poland respectively. This conference series provided afocus for the European research community and has highlighted the pioneering research intothe fundamental processes underpinning ion beam cancer therapy. |
