Welch Informationist Collaboration With The Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology

Abstract

With the announcement of the NLM Administrative Supplement Grant, the informationists at the Welch Medical Library found an interested and enthusiastic Principal Investigator (PI) in the Department of Radiology at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Although the PI had not used the services of a Welch informationist before, he was eager to collaborate with an informationist on the grant “Dose -Response in Radio-nuclide Therapy” (Parent Grant Number: 5R01CA116477 - 07), and had self - identified the need for “a literature review by experts” to fulfill his funded work. Targeted radionuclide therapy is an emerging modality for cancer therapy that involves the de- livery of radioactive atoms using carriers that preferentially bind to tumor cells. Such treatment is best implemented with patient - specific dosime- try calculations. This mutually beneficial partner