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iThemba LABS, through the division for community interaction and training (CIT), is committed to positively impact the lives of young people in South Africa through a range of activities related to science, engineering and technology. Read more...

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iThemba Labs, Faure, Western Cape iThemba Labs, Gauteng

The iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences is a group of multi-disciplinary research laboratories administered by the National Research Foundation. Based at two sites in the Western Cape and Gauteng, these provide facilities for:

  • Basic and applied research using particle beams
  • Particle radiotherapy for the treatment of cancer
  • The supply of accelerator-produced radioactive
    isotopes for nuclear medicine and research


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    iThemba LABS Gauteng is on the premises of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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The PRaVDA Project
The PRaVDA Project

PRaVDA is a team of leading instrumentation engineers and scientists, medical, high-energy and nuclear physicists and oncologists from the Universities of Birmingham, Lincoln, Liverpool and Surrey, the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, the iThemba Laboratories (Cape Town, South Africa).

PRaVDA will be the world’s first silicon-based detector system that will allow the in-situ monitoring of the incident dose, in terms of its fluence, energy and distribution both prior and during treatment; and provide quality images during treatment as well as realise interactive proton computerised tomography (CT) – the ultimate aspiration for radiotherapy. Read more ...

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Energy Postgraduate Conference (EPC 2013)

The NRF, in collaboration with the Department Of Science and Technology will host the Energy Post-Graduate Conference 2013 at iThemba LABS in Cape Town, South Africa during August.
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