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Remembering Jagdish Naran Mathur 1933 – 2018

Jagdish Mathur was born in Meerut, India in the 1930s. He completed his early university education in India at The Muslim University of Aligarh. He worked unde... Read More...

Physicists win European Space Agency funding for radiation sensor

UOW invention measures astronauts’ levels of radiation exposure Researchers at the University of Wollongong have been awarded funding from the European Space A... Read More...

How a passion for mathematics and science is helping Madeline fight cancer

Medical physics graduate motivated by a desire to help people Madeline Carr always knew she wanted to help people. She had a talent for mathematics and science, and when her life was touched by cancer in her late teens, she decided to choose a path ... Read More...

Three PhD students from the Centre for Medical Radiation Physics have received top-up scholarships

Congratulations CMRP HDR students Jarryd Buckley and Madeline Carr on successfully obtaining a South Western Sydney Local Health District top-up research schola... Read More...

New multimodal approach to treat brain tumors

In the quest of trying and develop new multimodal approaches to cure aggressive cancer tumours, the original work of Marjorie McDonald and collaborators from CM... Read More...

UOW research helps shed light on aggressive brain cancer

Microbeam Radiation Therapy may offer a way to treat otherwise untreatable cancers.... Read More...

Physics PhD Student giving new hope to brain cancer sufferers

It kills more children than any other disease but now there's new hope for brain cancer sufferers. University of Wollongong PhD student, Elette Engels, is among... Read More...

Antarctica flight the living laboratory for radiation sensor testing

Researchers board 14-hour flight to collect particle data from upper atmosphere to progress cancer research. A research team from the University of Wollongong ... Read More...

New technology to treat brain tumors

Professor Michael Lerch and Dr Enbang Li from the Centre of Medical Radiation Physics were recently featured on Vox FM and 2ser radio. The devastating impact of cancer is only too well known and the incidence of cancer unfortunately continues to g... Read More...

CMRP honoured at MedPhys 2017

MedPhys17, the annual Student Research Symposium of the NSW/ACT Branch of the Australian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine, was held on D... Read More...

The two of us: Susanna Guatelli and David Bolst

Physics Conference showcases the latest in cancer radiation research

Helping cure cancer

Research team of the month – Centre for Medical Radiation Physics