Najah Curtis (C '22) worked in the Medical Isotope Research and Production (MIRP) group at Brookhaven National Laboratory this summer. She describes her work as follows: "The MIRP group prepares radioisotopes for the nuclear medicine industry and performs research to develop new radioisotopes. There are two ways these medical isotopes are produced at BNL: one of them is by using the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer (BLIP), and the other way to produce isotopes is by using the EBCO Cyclotron. The cyclotron has been used in the past to develop isotopes and will be recommissioned to produce more radioisotopes in the future. These radioisotopes are mainly used for nuclear imaging (like SPECT and PET imaging) and nuclear therapy (medicine that uses radioisotopes to treat different cancers). I helped research how to produce one of the radioisotopes that can be very successful in treating metastatic prostate cancer."
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