Medical Isotopes
Dr. Francois Benard and TRIUMF team win NSERC Brockhouse Prize
NSERC Brockhouse Prize For CycloMed99 17 February 2015 For their outstanding teamwork in realizing a solution for safe and reliable isotope production for hospitals in Canada, interdisciplinary research team CycloMed99 will be receiving a prestigious national award at a ceremony in Ottawa today. The Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present the NSERC Brockhouse Canada […]
UBC scientists help avert a nuclear medicine meltdown
Media Release | January 8, 2015 University of British Columbia scientists have shown that small cyclotrons – particle accelerators the size of an SUV – can replace hulking nuclear power plants as the country’s main source of medical isotopes, the radioactive atoms used for thousands of diagnostic scan across Canada each day. The demonstration last […]