Speakers
Description
Prof. Armand Cholewka and Anna Mrozek-Wilczkiewicz, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof.
What is medical physics? What are the responsibilities of a medical physicist in therapy and medical imaging diagnostics? A brief description of selected diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. What is the future of medical physics? The lecture will include demonstrations utilizing selected medical devices. The lecture will presents the latest trends in the study of potential anticancer drugs. The topic of stages of research on new drugs will be discussed, with emphasis on the problem of in vivo testing. Moreover, the basic methods of toxicity testing of new substances and methods of verification of the obtained results will be presented. In the next part, other more advanced techniques (such as Western Blot, flow cytometry, PCR) allowing to determine the mechanism of anticancer activity will be presented. This will be followed by a discussion of the problems of selectivity of cytostatics to healthy tissue and methods to improve these parameters.