[News-releases] Accelerating Medicine with Physics - Live Webcast

Melissa Baluk mbaluk at triumf.ca
Wed Dec 2 08:32:11 PST 2015


News Release | For Immediate Release | Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Accelerating Medicine with Physics - Live Webcast

During a live webcast on Dec. 2, TRIUMF scientist Paul Schaffer will explore how leading-edge accelerator and isotope science is being applied to advance modern medicine. 

(Vancouver, BC) – Emerging modern medical technologies are allowing us to peer inside the human body with unprecedented sensitivity, and to probe the fundamental processes of life – in real time. This Wednesday, December 2, join Dr. Paul Schaffer of TRIUMF <http://www.triumf.ca/> – Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics and accelerator-based science – via live webcast as he discusses how he and his team use particle accelerators to develop award-winning tools and techniques to advance the field of nuclear medicine and help secure Canada’s medical isotope supply. 

“I enjoy taking a scientific idea and turning it into a real-life practical solution,” says Schaffer, “and to see that solution work its way into hospitals, into patients, into the medical community in order to help understand disease and potentially find cures for diseases that affect so many people today.”

Schaffer’s talk, titled “Get a Half-life: Isotopes as the Unlikely Hero of Modern Medicine,” is part of the Perimeter Institute Public Lecture Series <http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series>  and will be webcast live Dec. 2 at 4 PM PST on the Perimeter Institute website and via partner organizations.  

As the title of his public talk suggests, Schaffer will discuss cutting-edge research and applications of isotopes – short-lived elements harnessed and incorporated into next-generation pharmaceuticals designed to provide incredible insight into the complexity of life. “Working at a lab like TRIUMF, where we have so many isotopes available to us, we’re trying to find uses for those isotopes in science and medicine,” says Schaffer. “The Life Science initiative at TRIUMF is an example of how we can apply physics to medicine through the use of isotopes.”

As the Associate Laboratory Director of TRIUMF’s Life Sciences Division, Schaffer is committed to advancing accelerator target design, medical isotope production, and radiopharmaceutical synthesis – priority areas of the laboratory’s Life Sciences program. Prior to joining TRIUMF in 2009, Schaffer worked as a scientist at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor and General Electric Global Research.

Following his December 2nd public presentation, Schaffer will answer questions from the online and in-house audiences – including questions submitted prior to and during the talk via Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pioutreach> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/Perimeter> (using the hashtag #piLIVE). 

“It is so energizing,” says Schaffer, “to see the excitement for science passed along to other individuals and to help people understand how fundamental science, fundamental things like physics and chemistry, can really play a huge role in our everyday lives.”

Click here <http://storage.coremotivesmarketing.com/library/348db461-cff4-4d25-81c3-182fa9e07de1/709/webforms/1c45a981-0484-e511-ad31-005056800012.htm> to sign up for a reminder to tune-in to the live webcast.

LIVE WEBCAST DETAILS
* What: TRIUMF’s Paul Schaffer, Get a Half-life: Isotopes as the Unlikely Hero of Modern Medicine
* When: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 4 pm PT
* Where: Live at Perimeter Institute, webcast online at http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/
* Click here to sign up to receive an email reminder about the live webcast
* Pose questions for Schaffer by tweeting @Perimeter using the hashtag #piLIVE
* More info: http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/general-public/public-lecture-series




Melissa M. Baluk
Communications Coordinator
Strategic Planning and Communications, TRIUMF
604.222.7692


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