Tag: Healthcare
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CERN’s role in international cooperation
In 2025, CERN expertise, technologies and methods were actively shared with partner institutions, industry, and international organisations. Collaborations involved supporting large-scale research infrastructures, enabling new applications, and accelerating innovation in fields ranging from healthcare to space and fusion energy to quantum technologies and environmental sustainability, among others.
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CERN and AI Federated Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) is carving out new routes to scientific discoveries at pace and for over four decades, CERN has been using AI in its work. Today at CERN, AI is being integrated into data processing, event simulations and numerous other processes. These technologies can also make an impact in the world outside the Laboratory.
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EuroSIG and hadron therapy – moving from design to prototype
The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the dual ion therapy centres CNAO and MedAustron, and CERN joined forces in the European Superconducting Ion Gantry (EuroSIG) collaboration, aimed at de-risking the technologies for a compact superconducting gantry for carbon ion therapy.
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Modelling virus concentration in enclosed spaces to reduce transmission
The CERN Airborne Model for Indoor Risk Assessment (CAiMIRA) is an open-source tool developed to model the concentration of viruses in enclosed spaces, to inform space-management decisions.
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CERN‑MEDICIS: Pioneering radionuclides for precision medicine
CERN’s MEDICIS facility is contributing to the advancement of nuclear medicine by producing novel radionuclides for diagnosis and targeted therapy against tumours. In 2025, MEDICIS was granted approval by the CERN Council to supply mass‑separated radionuclides for clinical trials.
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MARCHESE: one AI technology, multiple applications
By combining hardware components such as radar, laser distance sensors and RGB cameras with dedicated software algorithms, MARCHESE supports rescue operations and emergency response in CERN’s LHC tunnel. MARCHESE is also suitable for healthcare applications and other situations where contactless monitoring is beneficial.
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The CERN chips transforming science and society
Medical imaging, radiotherapy, space dosimetry, material analysis. These are just a few of the many areas that have been impacted by advanced semiconductor chips developed in recent decades by the Medipix collaborations at CERN in conjunction with over 30 external research institutes.