Melbourne ISRP-11 Winners

Thursday 22 October 2009

At ISRP-11 ( Melbourne, 20-27 September 2009) 38 countries participated with some 200 attendees, over 60 oral presentations and more than 170 poster presentations.

With respect to the encouragement and development of students, six years ago at ISRP-9 it was decided that the International Radiation Physics Society would commemorate the name of one of the pioneers of this society, Didier Isabelle, by instituting a competition for research student speakers presenting their own research. It was proposed that such a competition would be a feature of our future symposia. The prize would take the form of an engraved glass plaque and a cash award.

At ISRP-11, the winner of the award was Entesar Dalah (University of Surrey) for her research on "The reaction-diffusion model for the purpose of sub-target volume delineation in radiotherapy".

Didier Isabelle would have been delighted to know that "his" award is associated with those in whose hands the future of our Society rests - young radiation scientists learning to do first class research.

In addition, a Surrey student was also the recipient of the award, for the named best poster prize (the John Hubbell prize), again with a small cash prize. We congratulate Noramaliza Mohd Noor on the excellence of her poster ‘The potential of Ge-doped optical fibre TL dosimetry for 3D verification of high energy IMRT photon beams’.