The United States Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health Collaboration: Medical Care Advances via Discovery in Physical Sciences

Cynthia Keppel; Andrew Weisenberger; Tatjana Atanasijevic; Shumin Wang; George Zubal; Jeffrey Buchsbaum; Martin Brechbiel; Jacek Capala; Freddy Escorcia; Ceferino Obcemea; Amber Boehnlein; Graham Heyes; Philip Bourne; Simon Cherry; Eric Colby; Georges El Fakhri; Jehanne Gillo; Robert Gropler; Paul Gueye; Georgia Tourassi; Steve Peggs; Craig Woody

doi:10.1002/mp.16252

The United States Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health Collaboration: Medical Care Advances via Discovery in Physical Sciences

Med Phys. 2023 Mar;50(3):e53-e61. doi: 10.1002/mp.16252. Epub 2023 Feb 22.

Authors

Cynthia Keppel¹, Andrew Weisenberger¹, Tatjana Atanasijevic², Shumin Wang², George Zubal², Jeffrey Buchsbaum³, Martin Brechbiel³, Jacek Capala³, Freddy Escorcia³, Ceferino Obcemea³, Amber Boehnlein⁴, Graham Heyes⁴, Philip Bourne⁵, Simon Cherry⁶, Eric Colby⁷, Georges El Fakhri⁸, Jehanne Gillo⁹, Robert Gropler¹⁰, Paul Gueye¹¹, Georgia Tourassi¹², Steve Peggs¹³, Craig Woody¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Experimental Nuclear Physics, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
² Division of Applied Science & Technology (Bioimaging), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
³ National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Computational Sciences & Technology, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
⁵ School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
⁶ Biomedical Engineering/Radiology, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
⁷ Office of High Energy Physics, Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
⁸ Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁹ Office of Isotope R&D and Production, Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
¹⁰ Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
¹¹ Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
¹² National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
¹³ Collider Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA.
¹⁴ Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA.

Abstract

Over several months, representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and National Institutes of Health (NIH) had a number of meetings that lead to the conclusion that innovations in the Nation's health care could be realized by more directed interactions between NIH and DOE. It became clear that the expertise amassed and instrumentation advances developed at the DOE physical science laboratories to enable cutting-edge research in particle physics could also feed innovation in medical healthcare. To meet their scientific mission, the DOE laboratories created advances in such technologies as particle beam generation, radioisotope production, high-energy particle detection and imaging, superconducting particle accelerators, superconducting magnets, cryogenics, high-speed electronics, artificial intelligence, and big data. To move forward, NIH and DOE initiated the process of convening a joint workshop which occurred on July 12th and 13th, 2021. This Special Report presents a summary of the findings of the collaborative workshop and introduces the goals of the next one.

Keywords: Department of Energy; National Institutes of Health; inter-agency collaboration.

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence
Biomedical Research*
Laboratories
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Natural Science Disciplines*
United States

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