Invitation: Talk this Tursday kl. 12 on "Innovative radioisotopes for medical applications"

On Thursday you are all invited to come and hear about the CERN-MEDICIS project.

The leader of the project, Thierry Stora, is visiting and will present the project in Origo from 12:15 - 13:00 on Thursday 19/1.

The presentation should be interesting to anyone curious about medical applications of radioisotopes.

The abstract of the talk is as follows:

CERN-MEDICIS : Innovative radioisotopes for medical applications

A.P. Bernardes, R. Catherall, K. Kershaw, S. Marzari, T. Stora, J. Prior, L. Buehler, O. Ratib

Isotope mass Separation OnLine has been developed for over fifty years to address fundamental questions in nuclear structure and astrophysics. In parallel, applications for solid state physics have benefited from the diversity and purity of the radioactive ion beams available in these facilities, as seen with the large variety of beams and applied research program at ISOLDE. In the past fifteen years, medical applications have also been developed, culminating with the recent construction of a dedicated extension, CERN-MEDICIS, which is expected to start operating this year. Dedicated targets will be irradiated in the beam dump position of the Isolde HRS target station, and radioisotopes fractions will be extracted thanks to a dedicated isotope mass separator. With an access to dedicated isotope batches for medical applications, research projects will be developed in the fields of targeted radiotherapy, surgery, and Pet-aided hadron therapy within a network of medical and fundamental research institutions. This program is stimulated by a European Marie Curie training network, MEDICIS-Promed, across fifteen institutes in the H2020 framework program of the European Commission.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 642889