The application of concepts and methods of physics to the diagnosis and treatment of pressing human diseases is emerging as a revolutionary approach to some new challenges that healthcare faces nowadays.
This program area fosters the establishment of new joint ventures among UT Austin’s Dell Medical School and Cockrell School of Engineering, UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Portuguese research groups in medical physics, proton therapies, and radiation oncology. Aligned with the national strategy for the development of high-energy particle beam therapies for cancer treatment, this initiative intends to boost the advanced training of oncology radiology experts.
Area Directors
João Oliveira
Area Director for Medical Physics
in Portugal
in Portugal
José Marques
Area Director for Medical Physics
in Portugal
in Portugal
Participants
Highlights
The UT Austin Portugal 2021 Annual Conference, under the theme "Connecting the dots: interdisciplinarity as a way to build up resilience", happens this year in the city of Porto, on the 20th and 21st of October, offering a mix of hybrid and virtual-only...
