Achievement

Matthew Gott, 2nd year student, IGERT trainee at Missouri, mentored by Silvia Jurisson and M. Fassbender (Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL) worked at LANL over summer, 2012 on a competitive Seaborg Fellowship. Matt is providing the chemistry component in developing separations of rhenium-186 (daughter isotope) from tungsten 186 (parent isotope). The team includes physicists and engineers for the production of W-186 at high energy cyclotrons as well as chemists and biologists for applications. Re-186 is a potential isotope for radiotherapy. The interdisciplinary team involved in this project consists of physicists, engineers, chemists, biologists at Missouri-Columbia, LANL, University of Washington-Seattle. Matt may be going to the University of Nantes in France (they have a 70 MeV cyclotron at their facility) to further his studies. We are waiting to hear (in May 2013) the outcome of a proposal submitted to the French government (Chateaubriand Fellowship).