Accomplishments: Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a five-year, $3.02 million RO1 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project titled 鈥淏iophysical Description of Age and Dose Dependent Changes to Dendritic Morphology that Impact Cognition following Radiation Cancer Therapy.鈥 The project includes work being conducted at鈥
Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an invitation to attend the Chinese Academy of Sciences鈥 meeting in Beijing that convened to formulate plans for a space radiation research program. He was one of only two non-Chinese scientists invited to provide recommendations on possible research goals.
Yu Kuang (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a $150,000 grant from the Nevada IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence funded by National Institutes of Health for his study 鈥淢etabolomics Lipid Profiling for Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma,鈥 which aims to identify specific lipid molecular species as a multiplexing鈥
The Radiography program (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) has been awarded an eight-year accreditation by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) .This is the JRCERT鈥檚 maximum duration for accreditation. The JRCERT is the only agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for the accreditation of鈥
Francis 鈥淔rank鈥 Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) served as guest editor for the online journal Frontiers, which compiled multiple articles focused on experiences and opinions of scientists dealing with high-energy charged particles either for cancer treatment or space radiation protection. The journal, which contained two鈥
Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) served as one of four editors for the recently published book Radiation Protection Dosimetry, which contains the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Microdosimetry. Published by Oxford University Press, the book contains scientific works about ionizing radiation quality,鈥
Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the 51吃瓜网万能科大 nuclear science and engineering fellowship program.
Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four鈥
Murat Alp and Frank Cucinotta (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) are co-authors of 鈥淚rradiation of Neurons with High-Energy Charged Particles: An In Silico Modeling Approach,鈥 which outlines the use of a stochastic computational model to study damage of irradiated neuronal cells. The study addresses the physico-chemical and patho-鈥
Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Radiochemsitry) led webinars titled "Alpha Spectrometry" and "Applications in Liquid Scintillation Counting" that were presented to people at the U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad field office, the National Analytical Management Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More than 450 attendees鈥
Jessica Kobayashi (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence Undergraduate Research Opportunity award. She is working with professor Gary Cerefice to study the potential use of commercial graphite to extract uranium from seawater. If successful, the research could prove graphite to be a鈥
Xia Li (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) earned the 2014 Basic Science Abstract Award in the Medical Physics category from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Regarded as the premier oncology society in the world, ASTRO bestows the Basic Science Abstract Award to the top three authors of significant abstracts about鈥
Radiochemistry has seven doctoral students who have received fellowships in 2013 and 2014. They are:
Jamie Daum and Daniel Mast, who received graduate fellowships through the U.S. Department of Energy's integrated university program.
Marc Fitzgerald, who received an internship through the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program and a nuclear forensics鈥