Campus , Research
03/07/2013

Another twenty years of TU/e radiopharmaceuticals

GE Healthcare will continue to produce radiopharmaceuticals on TU/e grounds for another two decades. Last Monday, TU/e and GE Healthcare signed the twenty-year contracts. Radiopharmaceuticals are radiolabeled compounds used for diagnostics in hospitals. TU/e has been involved with the production of these radioactive isotopes since 1975.

by Tom Jeltes

The radioactive compounds produced on campus are used all over Europe to diagnose cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and brain disorders. The production of isotopes is realized with the new cyclotron (ring-shaped particle accelerator) that was installed by TU/e daughter AccTec BV in 2003, and a radiopharmaceutical laboratory TU/e rents out to the Dutch branch of GE Healthcare BV.

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Research
18/06/2013

Starting Grants voor biomedical research

Two TU/e researchers have been informed that their applications for the prestigious Starting Grant of the European research Council (ERC) have been approved. Dr.ir. Remco Duits (Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics & Computer Science) will use the grant to further develop a technique for medical image analysis he devised. Dr. Sandra Hofmann Boss (Biomedical Engineering) wants to expose cultured bone tissue to mechanical loads in an attempt to learn more about osteoporosis.

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A compression stocking for spinal tissue

Approximately eighty percent of people will suffer from lower back pains at some point in their lives. Apart from affecting the person in question, back pain also leads to substantial economic loss due to absenteeism or even disability. By wrapping human spinal tissue in a sort of compression stocking, doctoral candidate ir. Bart van Dijk created a model system that could bring us one step closer to a cure for back problems.

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