Hanne Kooy

Biography

× Prof. Kooy is the Director of Physics at the Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and an Associate Professor of Radiation Therapy at HarvardMedicalSchool. During the last 15 years, Prof. Kooy has led the medical physics development in proton therapy at the center and has become a well recognized scientific figure in the field. His recent book “Proton and Charged Particle Radiotherapy”, written with Tomas F. DeLaney, MD, is a reference textbook for radiotherapy specialists. The F. H. Burr Proton Therapy Center continues the clinical program that commenced at the Harvard Cyclotron Lab in the late ‘60’s where Robert Wilson conceptualized the clinical use of protons in 1947. ×

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical science