Ions for Health Initiative

Nuclear Facility with Medical Applications

INSTITUTUL NAŢIONAL de C&D PENTRU FIZICĂ şi INGINERIE NUCLEARĂ

“HORIA HULUBEI”

IFIN-HH

Goal: to get nuclear technology from physics labs to hospitals

Research Themes PartnersAdvanced Radiation Detectors Carol Davila University of Medicine and PharmacyImage Reconstruction Algorithms Central Military HospitalProduction of Positron-Emitting Radionuclides Institute of Oncologyof Radionuclides for Targeted Therapy Institute of EndocrinologyRadiolabeling of Biomolecules for Targeted Treatment Coltea HospitalRadiopharmaceutical and Radiotracers Iasi UniversityPre-Clinical Application of BNCT UNESCO International Center for BiodynamicsElectromagnetic Radiation Absorbtion in Nanoscopic Ferrofluids Institute of Virology

GSI Darmstadt - Heidelberg Ion Therapy (HIT)JINR Dubna - Nuclotron Project - prototype of the future medical accelerator for hadron therapy Gent University - lymphocite radiosensitivityINFN Catania - Medical applications of ionizing radiationsUniversity of Padova, IEO Milano, - radiopharmaceutical, targeted radioimunotherapyCOST B32 - specific biomolecules with affinity to expressive tumor receptors ATOMKI Debrecen - radiopharmaceuticals NCSR Demokritos, Athens - comparative evaluation of tumor bone 188Re-177L bifunctional cheletor

Interdisciplinary open consortium, initiated by IFIN-Horia Hulubei and UMF "Carol Davilla", supported by ANCS and Agenţia Nucleară

IfH (Ions for Health) Initiative

Stages and Objectives :2006- Experimental to routine production of radioisotopes;

for medical applications (diagnostics and therapy);FDG for PET; BNCT; Radiolabeling of biomolecules (CEEX research contracts)

2007- Commisioning of a compact p/d cyclotron (18MeV/amu) for radioisotopeproduction for PET; towards a complete PET/CT station at IFIN-HH - as training center, dedicated to personnel training (physicsts, biochemists, physicians) for future hospital-based PET/CT stations

2007- The construction of a Medical Physics Centre, centered on a particle accelerator dedicated to hadron therapy;contribution (expertise, manpower) to the disemination of PET/CT stations in medical centers

Agentia Nucleara

UMF “CAROL DAVILA”

To work for the common good is the greatest creed

Albert Einstein

... one in three of us, at some point in our lives will be confronted with the cancer diagnostic...

... and will probably have to undergo surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy

The chances of a succesfull treatment, the quality of live crucially depend on the possibility of concentrating radioterapy to the tumoral zone while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

There is no higher religion than human service Albert Einstein