Joint Department of Physics

Chairman: Professor Steve Webb

The mission of the Joint Department of Physics, which spans both The Royal Marsden Hospital and The Institute of Cancer Research, is to develop and apply techniques for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Within The Royal Marsden, the major roles of the Department are to provide support for the clinical activities of radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiology and to manage a radiation protection service. 

Within the ICR, the Section pursues a research and postgraduate teaching programme. Major research areas include conformal and stereotactic radiotherapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiotherapy, radiopharmaceutical development, biologically targeted radionuclide therapy, high-focused ultrasound therapy, ultrasound and x-ray imaging, detector development and diagnostic imaging. 

The Department conducts research into physics as applied to medicine and then acts as the translator of this research into clinical practice.

  

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Research SectionsAcademic Department of BiochemistryBreakthrough Breast Cancer Research CentreCancer Research UK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustCancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics UnitJoint Department of PhysicsNHS Clinical Research ProgrammeSection of Academic Radiotherapy and Department of Radiotherapy (including Psychology Research Group)Section of Cancer GeneticsSection of Cell and Molecular Biology including the Cancer Research UK Tumour Cell Signalling UnitSection of Clinical TrialsSection of EpidemiologySection of Gene Function and RegulationSection of Haemato-OncologySection of MedicineSection of Molecular CarcinogenesisSection of Paediatric OncologySection of Structural BiologySection of Surgery