Prostate Seed Grant: Paul Cho received an R21 from the National Cancer Institute for a project designed to develop improved methods of automatically sorting seeds from images.
Homayon Parsaei received doctorate: Dr. Parsaei received his doctorate in physics from University of British Columbia. He performed his graduate thesis project at UW in the area of IMRT under the guidance of Drs. Phillips and Cho.
Hege Kippenes received doctorate: Dr. Kippenes received her doctorate in radiological veterinary science from Washington State University. She worked with Drs. Phillips and Cho on a joint project designed to determine the spatial accuracy of IMRT delivery.
Juergen Meyer received doctorate: Dr. Meyer received his doctorate in Mathematical and Information Sciences from Coventry University, England. His thesis work was on the accomodation of practical constraints for IMRT by means of compensators.
Grant Reviews: Mark Phillips served as an ad hoc reviewer for the NCI Radiation Study Section. Paul Cho served as a reviewer for the Congressionally- Directed Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Program, U.S.Army Research and Materiel Command.
Program Reviews: Ruedi Risler served on a review committee for the Northeast Proton Therapy Center at MGH in Boston.
