The University of Alberta's new medical isotope and cyclotron facility officially opened on July 2.
The Canadian government is providing $7 million through the Isotope Technology Acceleration Program (ITAP) to support an alternative method for the production of the medical isotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m).
ITAP is a four-year, $25 million ($23.7 million U.S.) program that invests in Canadian projects designed to improve the supply of medical isotopes for the country, reduce radioactive waste, and meet nuclear nonproliferation goals through isotope production using cyclotron and linear accelerator technologies.
ITAP is also funding projects led by TRIUMF in British Columbia and the Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise in Manitoba.
