Tag: CERN-MEDICIS
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From lab to clinic: CERN-MEDICIS update
CERN’s MEDICIS facility is contributing to the advancement of nuclear medicine by producing unconventional radionuclides for diagnosis and targeted therapy against tumours and other diseases. Radionuclides – atoms with either an excess or deficiency of neutrons – play an essential role in medical imaging and in delivering highly localised radiation to eliminate malignant cells while sparing…
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Meet a user: Dr John Prior
CERN-MEDICIS produces radionuclides which can be used to treat different kinds of oncological, cardiological and neurological diseases. Dr John Prior is Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). He has been involved in the MEDICIS project since it began. Dr Prior explains, “The beauty of MEDICIS is we can…
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Meet the project: CERN-MEDICIS
Innovative ideas and technologies from physics have contributed to great advances in the field of medicine over the last 100 years, since the advent of radiation-based medical diagnosis and treatment and following the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity. CERN-MEDICIS(Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) is an initiative that focuses on leveraging CERN’s cutting-edge technologies for medical applications, including cancer…
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Innovation: how to Make It Matter
By supporting this special campaign, you help carry innovations building on CERN’s legacy into classrooms, hospitals, and communities. Together, we can make science matter where it’s needed most. Barbara Solich, CERN & Society Foundation Head Technology never stands still – and neither does innovation. At the CERN & Society Foundation, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange is one of our…
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CERN-MEDICIS: Accelerating for society
CERN-MEDICIS: Accelerating forward Photo: Maximilien Brice Earlier in the year, CERN Council approved an extension to the MEDICIS platform. MEDICIS, a collaborative project between 19 partner institutions, and based at CERN, is using proton beams from the Proton Synchrotron Booster and advanced mass-separation technologies to produce innovative medical radionuclides for biomedical research. This new generation of…
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The ProTechno Foundation supports CERN-Medicis once again!
The CERN & Society Foundation is delighted to announce that the ProTechno Foundation will support the CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) Project for the second year running. We are thankful for the Foundation’s continued support making great strides in the use of radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment with a view to developing new approaches to fight…