News Archive 2010

Samples of Vital Human Tumor Tissue Irradiated with Ions for the First Time. GSI Press Release

4D Treatment Planning Workshop took place on Dezember 9.-10, 2010 at the GSI.

The Awarding the Christoph-Schmelzer prize 2010 to Anna Maria Constantinescu M.Sc. from the TU Darmstadt and Rebecca Grün from the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg.

ESA Proposal Workshop AO-10-IBER and Second Investigator Working Group (IWG) Meeting AO-08-IBER took place at the GSI.

Anna Maria Constantinescu M.Sc. from the Technical University of Darmstadt und Mrs. Rebecca Grün from the University of Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg received the Christoph Schmelzer Award for 2010 for their work in the field of cancer therapy with heavy ion beams. The award ceremony will take place on 9 December at 16:00 in the GSI lecture hall.

Marco Durante receives the 60th Timofeeff-Ressovsky Award from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The new version of the LEM model discussed on IOP MedicalPhysicsWeb.

The registration for the 4D Treatment Planning Workshop is open.

The Human Spaceflight Directorate of the European Space Agency is announcing an opportunity to propose Investigations into Biological Effects of Radiation Using the GSI Accelerator Facility (AO-10-IBER).

Prof. Dr. Marco Durante, Director of the Biophysics Department, has been selected to give the 8th Warren K. Sinclair Keynote Address at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the USA National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). The Address, entitled HEAVY IONs IN THERAPY AND SPACE: benefits and risks, will be the opening presentation of the 47th Annual Meeting of NCRP to be held March 7-8, 2011 in Bethesda (MD, USA). The keynote speaker series honors Dr. Warren K. Sinclair, NCRP’s second President (1977 to 1991) and President Emeritus (1991 to present). It is the first time that a scientist from Germany is selected for this prestigious American award.

S. Zahnreich und D. Becker received the Travel Award to the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Radiation Research 1 - 2 September 2010 in Hamburg.

The Biophysics Department will host three students for the 2010 GSI Summer School. Francesca Margaret Perrozziello (University Federico II, Naples, Italy), Ghada Aldosary (University of Ryadh, Saudi Arabia) and Gabriele Babini (University of Pavia, Italy) will work on research projects related to heavy ion cancer therapy. They will present the results in a seminar at the end of September.

Robert Kaderka received a Doctorial scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

9^th International Microbeam Workshop took place from July 15 to July 17, 2010 in Darmstadt.

The 5^th Meeting of the GSI Biophysics and Radiobiology Program Advisory Committee (Bio-PAC) took place on June 24/25, 2010.

Prof. Marco Durante, director of the Biophysics Department, has been awarded the 2010 Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeeff-Ressovsky Medal by the Russian Academy of Sciences. The medal will be presented to Prof. Durante during the next N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky Conference in Crimea, 9-14 October 2010.

N.W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky (1900-1981) is one of the fathers of radiation biology. He studied in Russia and worked many years in Germany at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung. In 1935, Timofeeff-Ressovsky published the major work, über die Natur der Genmutation und der Genstruktur (known as the “green paper”) with Karl Zimmer, and Max Delbrück; it was considered to be a major advance in understanding the nature of gene mutation and gene structure. The work was a keystone in the formation of molecular genetics. After WWII he went back to Russia, where he organized and became the head of the Department of Radiobiology and Genetics, at the Institute of Medical Radiology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. The Medal “Biosphere and Humanity” in the name of N.V.Timofeeff-Ressovsky was created in the year 2000 by the Scientific Council of the Medical Radiological Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (MRRC of RAMS) and the N.V.Timofeeff-Ressovsky Scientific Society “Biosphere and Humanity”.

The scientific program of the 9th International Microbeam workshop is now online.

Carola Hartel received the Award for young scientists at the Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, Berlin, May 4-6, 2010. Her contribution will be published in ATW International Journal for Nuclear Power.

Carola Hartel got the financial assistance award for the Annual Meeting on Nuclear Technology, Berlin.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL: NY, USA) and GSI for collaboration in the field of space radiation research has been signed in Darmstadt.

A new 'Call for Proposals' for the Bio-PAC (GSI's Biophysics & Radio-Biology Program Advisory Committee) will be open from April 12 to May 16, 2010. Submitted proposals are to be presented orally in the next Bio-PAC05 Meeting on June 24-25, 2010. Proposals can be submitted through the new webform. Should you have any questions on the submission of proposals or the procedure of getting a proposal granted, please contact Dr. Karin Füssel, k.fuesselgsi.de. For technical details on experiments please refer to the GSI Contact Persons (see webpage Beamtime or the webform for submitting proposals). Registration to the Users' Group can be done on the webpage Usergroup, bottom of the page "Register to the GSI Users' Group".

The "Radiation Biophysics" course (M.Sc. Physik; 5 CP) will start at TUD (S207/109) on April 13 and will continue every Tuesday and Wednesday from 17:10 to 18:50. All new undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn more about the topic are welcome. Lectures will be available here.

Calendar of beamtime for the ESA-IBER project has been decided for the first half of 2010. Info on beamtime and on the ESA radiobiology program are available on the new ESA-IBER webpage.

New paper on heavy ion therapy published in the January - March 2010 issue of Reviews of Modern Physics (Vol.82, No.1), DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.82.383

The registration for the 9th International Microbeam Workshop is now open! Click here for the meeting webpage.

The kick-off meeting of the ENVISION project was held at CERN on February the 4th. ENVISION is a 4-year project set up by 15 leading European research centers. The project coordinator is CERN and the GSI coordinator is Dr. Christoph Bert. ENVISION deals with on-line dose monitoring and quality assurance tests in particle therapy.

The Workshop "Physics for Health in Europe" was held at CERN on February 2-4. The workshop had sessions in radiobiology, radiotherapy, imaging, and radionuclide applications and was attended by over 400 scientists from all over Europe. You can watch the event on the CERN Webcast Service.

Dr. Andrea Mairani from the University of Pavia / Italy and Hiroyuki Nose from the National Institute of Radiological Science Chiba / Japan were honored with the Christoph-Schmelzer-Preis 2009 for their work in the field of cancer therapy with heavy ions.