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Division Chair &
Chair IBA Prize Committee:
Douglas MacGregor
Object: To assist the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in nuclear
physics.
Activities: Organisation of conferences, summer schools and furthering the
exchange of scientists and students.
Prizes: The Board awards three major prizes:
• The IBA Europhysics Prize (odd years) for Applied Nuclear Science and
Nuclear Methods in Medicine.
• The Lise Meitner Prize (even years) for outstanding contributions to Nuclear
Science
• A triennial prize for the best PhD dissertation in nuclear physics in Europe.
Website: http://eps.site-ym.com/
2015 IBA Europhysics Prize
• The IBA Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to
Applied Nuclear Science and Nuclear Methods in Medicine.
• It is kindly sponsored by the IBA group.
• We are pleased to have Dr Eric Forton, R&D manager for
Beam Production Systems at IBA Medical Accelerators
Solutions who will present the prize today.
• We are grateful to the EuNPC2015 organisers for providing an
opportunity to present the IBA award at this conference.
2015 Prizewinner
Prof. Mehran Salehpour,
Department of Physics and
Astronomy, Uppsala University,
Uppsala, Sweden.
IBA Prize Citation
The 2015 IBA Prize for Applied Nuclear
Science and Nuclear Methods in Medicine
is awarded to
Prof. Mehran Salehpour
“in recognition of the considerable impact
he has made in the field of biomedical
Accelerator
Mass
Spectrometry
by
facilitating routine analysis of ultra-small
DNA samples in the microgram range. This
has brought forth new fundamental
information about human physiology: A cell
regeneration map of the human brain, heart
and other critical organs.”
Highlights of Prof Salehpour’s work
• Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) isotope measurements
have long been used as a dating technique in archaeology,
geochronology, and environmental sciences.
• However, in the last 10 years 14C concentrations have been
used extensively as a biological markers in biomedical
applications.
• Improving detection sensitivity is key to progress in this
relatively new field.
Highlights of Prof Salehpour’s work
• Prof. Salehpour spent 18 years in industry, before returning to
academic studies in 2007 when he started biological AMS
activities at Uppsala University, Sweden.
• His greatest achievements relate to improved AMS sensitivity
for biomedical applications. Standard AMS requires milligram
samples and Prof. Salehpour has developed a method for
reliable and routine analytical measurements in the µg range,
with accuracy of a few percent.
Highlights of Prof Salehpour’s work
• His research group has measured quantities as low as 120
zmol (10-21 mol) for low molecular weight molecules, and <8
zmol for a protein in blood.
• Drug concentrations in human blood have been measured in
the low femtomolar range, and later extended to attomolar
concentrations (10-18 moles per litre).
• One exciting application in pharmaceutical research is
microdosing. Drug doses are too low to produce whole-body
effects, but high enough to allow cellular responses to be
studied. This approach has been endorsed by the US Food and
Drug Administration and the European Medical Agency.
Highlights of Prof Salehpour’s work
• Prof Salehpour’s work has also benefited the Human
Regenerative Map project, which seeks to measure the
regenerative properties of different types of cells in the
human body, using AMS-analysis of DNA.
• This work is of enormous importance to regenerative
medicine and human physiology. Many interesting regions of
critical organs including the brain, the heart and the pancreas,
can only be studied with very small µg samples.
• In conclusion, Prof Salehpour has made an outstanding
contribution to improving the sensitivity of biomedical AMS
techniques and is a very worthy winner of the 2015 IBA Prize.
2012-2014 PhD Prize
2012-2014 PhD Prize
• The Nuclear Physics Division offers a triennial prize for the
best European PhD thesis in experimental, theoretical or
applied Nuclear Physics.
• The prize consists of a Diploma from the EPS, the opportunity
to present their work in a plenary talk to an international
audience and Eu1000 prizemoney to cover the costs of
attending this conference.
• The aim is to recognize and reward excellence in young
scientists embarking on their careers.
PhD Prize Sponsors
• The prize is sponsored by:
Karin and Carlo Giersch Foundation
KVI Centre for Advanced Radiation Technology, Groningen
Nuclear Physics Institute Research centre, Julich
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Orsay
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
2015 European Nuclear Physics Conference, Groningen
Choosing the winners
• Candidates produce a short succinct summary of their thesis
work.
• Nominations are made with the support of supervisors and
several external referees.
• The prize committee considers the quality, extent and
scientific impact of the work and will take into account the
publication record of the candidates during the period of their
PhD.
2012-2014 Prizewinners
Liam Gaffney, University of Liverpool, UK, September 2012.
Octupole collectivity in 220Rn and 224Ra.
Jose Manuel Alarcón Soriano, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, June
2012.
Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory in its manifestly covariant forms
and the study of the πN dynamics & On the Y(2175) resonance,
Christopher Walz, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany,
July 2014.
The two-photon decay of the 11/2- isomer of 137Ba and mixedsymmetry states of 92,94Zr and 94Mo,