Live: From particle physics to medicine

Did you know that particle accelerators are also used to treat cancer? That medical imaging has taken great leaps forwards thanks to the crystals and chips developed for #particle physics And that CERN is home to a facility that develops isotopes for #medical #research?

Ever since X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895, physics and medicine have been closely intertwined. Medical imaging and cancer treatments have benefited from developments in particle physics over the years, and the innovations continue today, including in collaboration with CERN.

As part of CERN’s 70th anniversary celebrations, doctors, biologists and physicists will walk you through how the collaboration between fundamental physics and medicine is leading to innovative treatment methods and diagnostic techniques. One special patient – a researcher, writer and populariser of science – will share with us his experience of being treated for cancer in one of the four European centres for hadron therapy.

Moderator:
Antoine Geissbühler, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

Speakers:

Accelerators to treat cancer
Esther Troost, Chair of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus of TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Manjit Dosanjh, Visiting Professor at University of Oxford, former senior advisor for medical applications at CERN
Ugo Amaldi, President of the TERA Foundation

Looking inside the human body

John Prior, Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital
Magdalena Rafecas, Professor of Instrumentation in Medical Imaging, Head of the Nuclear Imaging research group, University of Lübeck
Michael Campbell, Senior scientist at CERN, Spokesperson of the Medipix Collaborations

The digital health revolution

John Prior, Head of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Lausanne University Hospital
Steve MacFeely, Director of Data and Analytics, WHO
Esther Troost, Chair of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology of the University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine
Carl Gustav Carus of TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany

The event can also be followed with FRENCH interpretation here: https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i13...