May 20 2014
MILabs BV is proud to announce that the Advanced Imaging Scientist award 2014 will be presented to Prof. Dr. David William Townsend for his groundbreaking scientific contribution to diagnose cancer at the Utrecht Life Science seminar on May 19th 2014.
Utrecht Life Science has organized together with MILabs B.V. a seminar at University Medical Center Utrecht on May 19th which highlights the technological development which has led to the current application of PET/CT for diagnosis of cancer and research in thousands of hospitals world wide.
David W. Townsend, PhD, FRCR, DSc (Hon), currently director of the A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre in Singapore, has designed and built the first rotating partial ring PET scanner while on the faculty of Geneva University Hospital in 1980.
In 1995, he was the Principal Investigator on the first proposal to design and build a combined PET/CT scanner, which was named by TIME Magazine as the Medical Invention of the Year 2000. Shortly thereafter PET/CT started to revolutionize daily clinical practice, since it non-invasively collects anatomical and functional information, enabling the accurate localization of tumors. This allows personalized treatment of patients for a wide variety of diseases.
“I am extremely proud to present this MILabs award to David Townsend, as he has shown that physicists, do make fundamental changes in life threatening diseases such as cancer” says Freek Beekman, CEO of MILabs B.V. “Moreover his visit to the Utrecht Science Park demonstrates that combined public, private and educational efforts underpin our commitment to the open innovation network in Utrecht ” continues Freek Beekman.
Source: http://www.milabs.com/
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