Tag: MEDICIS
CERN MEDICIS is a research facility for producing radioisotopes for medical applications. The facility will use a proton beam at ISOLDE to produce the isotopes that are first destined for hospitals and research centres in Switzerland and will progressively extend to a larger laboratories in Europe and beyond.
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CERN accelerates medical applications
Five-year extensions to CERN’s CLEAR and MEDICIS platforms will boost the impact of cutting-edge accelerator technologies in areas ranging from advanced medical treatments to aerospace electronics
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New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer
Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.