Worlds of Physics
April 8, 7:30 PM
Radioactive Isotopes in Medicine
Eszter Boros
Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Dept. of Pharmacology, and Dept. of Radiology
Stony Brook University
Abstract: Radioactivity gets often a bad rep. Most of us think of harmful, irreversible tissue damage and radiation sickness first, and foremost as a result of radioactive fallout from damaged or malfunctioning nuclear power plants. However, radioactive isotopes play a very important role in the diagnosis and treatment of disease in medicine. This talk will discuss how radioactive isotopes are made, captured and utilized in hospitals by radiologists around the world.
Bio: Eszter Boros obtained her B.Sc. (2006) and her M.Sc. (2007) at the University of Zurich and her Ph.D. (2011) in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia. She was a postdoctoral fellow (2011-2015) and later instructor (2015-2017) in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In August 2017, Boros joined the Chemistry Department at SBU as an assistant professor; she also holds appointments with the departments of Pharmacology and Radiology at Stony Brook Medicine. Boros has been named a Moore foundation Inventor Fellow, a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and is the winner of the 2021 Discovery Prize. At Stony Brook, Prof. Boros and her team develop means to capture radioactive isotopes of metal ions and employ them for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
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