Medical Physics focuses on applying physics based solutions to solving problems in the area of medicine.
Research areas of our CAMPEP accredited M.S. program can be broadly classified into two areas:
Radiation Therapy Physics
Diagnostic Imaging Physics
Dr. Mauro Tambasco’s research focuses on leveraging 3D bioprinting to create tissue-mimicking tumor models for studying and optimizing spatially fractionated radiotherapy (SFRT) approaches like GRID, LATTICE, and PATHY. This includes using 3D bioprinted co-culture tumor models to investigate and optimize SFRT for immune priming, particularly in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition, radiosensitizers, and pulsed treatment strategies to combat treatment-induced evolutionary resistance. Additionally, Dr. Tambasco is developing a portable 3D cell culture platform to evaluate 2D distributions of relative biological effectiveness for proton radiotherapy and emerging technologies such as FLASH.
For more information, please contact the Director of Medical Physics: E-Mail Dr. Tambasco