CQS Seminar: Isotopes in Medicine, and Meeting Rutherford’s Challenge

Isotopes of the elements, both stable and radioactive, are powerful tools in medicine.  New methods developed by our group and implemented at the non-profit Pointsman Foundation will make these isotopes readily available. This work is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation in Denmark with the creation of a new Center for Biomedical Quantum Sensing, and the areas of research in my group will be described.  Applying our new methods of isotope separation, we should be able to meet the historic challenge by Ernest Rutherford from 1911, with important applications in cancer therapy, medical imaging, and basic science.