About us
Particle physicists working on safer cancer treatment
Particle Care Technologies S.L. is a spin-off of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA), a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria (UC). We bring radiation-detector know-how from particle physics into the brachytherapy suite.
Our mission
Make every brachytherapy dose verifiable
Brachytherapy is one of the most effective and cost-efficient cancer treatments, yet the dose actually delivered is rarely checked. We want real-time verification to become a standard part of every treatment, so that an error is caught while it can still be stopped.
We are based at the Technology Development Centre of the University of Cantabria (CDTUC) in Santander.
Where we come from
- INNVAL 23/18Research project at IFCA shows that SiC diodes are well suited to HDR brachytherapy.
- HUMVSensors characterised with a real 192Ir source; favourable opinion from the hospital's ethics committee.
- 2025UCem University of Cantabria entrepreneurship award.
- 2026Company founded. First flexible circuit boards manufactured. Selected for TOP101 Spain Up Nation.
Team
Founding researchers
Experience in semiconductor instrumentation, Monte Carlo simulation and artificial intelligence, built in international collaborations such as CERN.
Predoctoral researcher at CSIC (IFCA). Physics (UC), MSc in photonics and electronics (UCM). Full-time on the project.
PhD in accelerator physics, Royal Holloway, University of London. Background in instrumentation for CERN; now in the medical technology industry.
Research Professor at CSIC and head of the IFCA Instrumentation Group. Co-founder of a previous IFCA spin-off.
Tenured Scientist at CSIC. International experience at CERN and Tel Aviv University; Geant4 simulation expert.
Ramón y Cajal researcher at CSIC. Coordinates analysis, simulation and software for the DAMIC-M experiment.
Predoctoral researcher at CSIC (IFCA), doing his PhD on advanced silicon carbide radiation detectors.
Full Professor of Modern Physics at UC. Former senior scientist at ETH Zürich and founder of Muon Systems.
Tenured Scientist at CSIC (IFCA). Deep learning applied to medical diagnosis; leads the future AI layer.
Partners
Who we work with
Laboratories, scientific team and the research behind the technology.
Access to the HDR brachytherapy suite and clinical advice from its Radiation Oncology Service.
Validation on an anthropomorphic phantom, reproducing correct and incorrect treatments.
Readout electronics and full demonstrator, within an ISO 13485-certified medical device design process.