1st Biophysics Collaboration meeting at GSI
"LIP scientists were present at the initial meeting of a new collaboration for the development of biomedical applications research programmes and instrumentation at particle accelerator facilities"
An International Biophysics Collaboration is now being created for the development of research programmes and common instrumentation in biomedical applications for the existing and new accelerator facilities. One of these facilities is certainly FAIR, the new Facility for Antiproton and ion Research at GSI, but the International Biophysics Collaboration goes well beyond FAIR, including the many new particle accelerator facilities under construction all over the world where applied nuclear physics program are planned and biomedical research will be possible.
A first meeting was held at GSI, Darmstadt, on May 20-22. Every scientist interested in biomedical applications at particle accelerators was invited to contribute with ideas and proposals. LIP scientists were present at the initial meeting and will participate in this network that will create a community of applied nuclear physics at accelerators that will look for new exciting research opportunities generated by the new facilities.