[News-releases] Advanced Cyclotron Systems and TRIUMF Announce Partnership

[Tim Meyer]

News Release | For Immediate Release | December 16, 2010, 10:00 a.m. PST

ADVANCED CYCLOTRON SYSTEMS AND TRIUMF ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Together Will Advance Cyclotron and Medical-Isotope Technologies

(Vancouver, BC) -- Advanced Cyclotron Systems, Inc. (ACSI), a leading
designer, manufacturer, and installer of cyclotrons, is pleased to announce
that it has partnered with Canada's national laboratory for particle and
nuclear physics, TRIUMF, in order to advance cyclotron and accelerator
technologies and to promote the use of such technologies in providing better
healthcare to British Columbians and all Canadians. 

Richard Eppich, CEO and President of ACSI, said: "Through this partnership,
ACSI and TRIUMF will not only accelerate the development of their own
individual projects, but will take aim at larger causes - scientific
progress and the improvement of Canada's healthcare system." ACSI's
cyclotrons, for example, produce medical radioisotopes that are used in
PET/CT scans - which provide accurate pre-treatment detection of cancerous
tumours.  An ACSI machine was installed and commissioned at the BC Cancer
Agency just a few months ago.

ACSI and the TRIUMF lab, which is owned and operated by a consortium of 16
Canadian universities, will work together to seek third-party funding on new
projects that advance accelerator and cyclotron technologies.  Such
technologies are integral to enhancing the treatment and management of
certain diseases that afflict Canadians.

Nigel Lockyer, Director of TRIUMF, said: "We're excited by this new level of
partnership with ACSI because it connects the lab's technical knowledge,
skills, and abilities with a world-class partner in the Canadian private
sector.  Together, we will generate new ideas and new products that will
benefit Canadians and provide export opportunities to the rest of the
world."

In exchange for ACSI's support in strengthening TRIUMF's public profile as
Canada's premiere centre for accelerator science and technology, TRIUMF will
support ACSI's efforts to design cyclotrons and to sell them throughout
Canada and the world.  ACSI will have access to TRIUMF personnel who can
provide scientific, engineering and technical assistance related to the
research and development of existing and next-generation cyclotrons.

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Timothy I. Meyer, Ph.D.
Head, Strategic Planning & Communications
TRIUMF -- Accelerating Science for Canada
4004 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC  V6T 2A3  CANADA
Tel: 604-222-7674
Fax: 604-222-3791
Cell: 650-464-8955
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca
WWW: http://www.triumf.ca
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