Christine Duval Receives Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science

Christine Duval, an assistant professor in chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, is one of about 75 scientists across the country, to win an Early Career Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The five-year award is expected to add up to at least $750,000. Quoting CWRU’s press release, Christine is working on “pioneering a faster and more sustainable means for increasing the national supply of radiotherapies for cancer treatment,” and is “…leverag(ing) her expertise in two distinct fields — membrane and nuclear sciences — to propose innovative ways to extract the medically important isotopes from natural systems.” “If it proves successful, it could enhance the production of isotopes used by hospitals worldwide. More than 40 million nuclear medicine procedures are performed annually, according to the World Nuclear Association, and the demand is increasing by about 5% a year.”