Advanced medical technologies and hadron therapy are at the heart of the final doctoral examination of the PhD programme The Hadron Academy: Risk and Complexity in High-Tech Medical Innovation, promoted by the IUSS School for Advanced Studies Pavia in collaboration with the National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO) and the University of Insubria (UNICA). On 9 July, Gaia Volpi will defend her doctoral thesis on the interplay between radiation response in fibrosarcoma and immune response before an international examination committee.