Upcoming Events
| 23 Jul 2019 12:00PM - 01:00PM Harald Paganetti (MGH): The Paganetti Lab: Overview of ongoing projects (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 30 Jul 2019 12:00PM - 01:00PM Paola Pajevic-Divieti (BU/MGH) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 06 Aug 2019 12:00PM - 01:00PM Kris Sarosiek (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Medicine) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
Job and thesis project opportunities are available.
June 2019: Joost Verburg, Ph.D. received the Micheal Goitein best abstract award in physics at the annual conference of the Particle Therapy CoOperative Group (PTCOG).
December 2018: Our proton range detector was listed as one of the 5 breakthroughs of the year in medical physics and biosciences.
November 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. receives a highly competitive Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award that supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas. Congratulations!
October 2018: Variable RBE impacts proton therapy of liver cancer (Physics World)
September 2018: Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D. receives the Glocker Medal, the highest award of the German Society of Medical Physics (DGMP). It is named after Richard Glocker, the last Ph.D. student of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
September 2018: Precise proton range detector gets ready for the clinic (Physics World and featured article in PMB)
July 2018: David Gierga, Ph.D. was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
May 2018: Jay Flanz, Ph.D. was re-elected as the Chairman of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) for the second term.
April 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. is the 2018 recipient of the Michael Fry Research Award of the Radiation Research Society. Congratulations, Jan, on this well deserved honor for your significant accomplishments.
March 2018: Stefan ten Eikelder will receive the Jan Hemelrijk Award for his Master’s thesis "Optimal fractionation for combined photon-proton treatments" from The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. He also received the Tilburg University Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 and the Philips prize for Data Science in Healthcare, one of the Young Talent Awards of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations Stefan!
February 2018: Susu Yan, Ph.D. received an early career scholarship award at the Winter Institute of Medical Physics
February 2018: Three ways to make proton therapy affordable (ESTRO news)
Videos about our work
These videos were published by the Institute of Physics (physicsworld):
1. A pioneering approach to cancer treatment