MEDICIS

CERN MEDICIS is a research facility for producing radioisotopes for medical applications. The facility will use a proton beam at ISOLDE to produce the isotopes that are first destined for hospitals and research centres in Switzerland and will progressively extend to a larger laboratories in Europe and beyond.

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CERN collaborations open new horizons for cancer therapy

CERN’s Next Ion Medical Machine Study (NIMMS) and new European projects are building on existing hadron-therapy research to treat cancer

News
Knowledge sharing
04 February, 2021
Knowledge sharing
News
04 February, 2021

MEDICIS

Experiments
Experiments

New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer

Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.

Press release
At CERN
12 December, 2017
At CERN
Press release
12 December, 2017

CERN to produce radioisotopes for health

Construction began today on the CERN MEDICIS research facility, which will make radioactive isotopes for medical applications

News
Experiments
04 September, 2013
Experiments
News
04 September, 2013

ISOLDE to produce isotopes for medical research

The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer

News
Experiments
06 April, 2012