LAHORE: Government College University (GCU) Lahore’s Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics (CASP) installed a nuclear accelerator funded by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

According to a press release issued by the GCU on Saturday, GCU Lahore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Khalid Aftab said the pelletron accelerator would be used to detect, diagnose and treat patients suffering from cancer. He said it was a great addition to the GCU CASP laboratories, as it would transform CASP into a hub of research work in Physics.

Director CASP Prof Dr Ghouri said on the occasion that the GCU had invested Rs 20 million from its own funds to construct a multi-purpose, multi-storied building in CASP in order to install the most sophisticated nuclear accelerator. He said the pelletron accelerator had been purchased from the National Electrostatic Corporation of USA with an amount of Rs 69.68 million funded by HEC for the rejuvenation of the GCU`s High Tension Laboratory.

Prof Ghouri said CASP was already bedecked with technologically advanced instruments such as the ND Yag Laser Transmission electroscope and scanning electron microscope. He said they had already been extending facilities to the students of the University of the Punjab, Agriculture University Faisalabad, Bahauddin Zakaria University Multan and Islamia University Bahawalpur.

Finally, Prof Ghouri said, with the installation of the accelerator, students could now conduct research work in environmental sciences, archaeology, medicine, agriculture and medical sciences, as well as facilitate research in nuclear Physics and atomic sciences. staff report


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WoW for once one must admit, this is goood stuff and really good for both students and cancer patients in the area.

Another milestone in the onward march of Government College University (GCU) in Lahore has taken place, but this time it may be historical. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has reposed enough confidence in the stewardship of the GCU vice-chancellor, Dr Khalid Aftab, to strengthen the university’s Centre for Advanced Studies in Physics (CASP) with a nuclear accelerator.

Apart from the fact that the pelletron accelerator would be used to detect, diagnose and treat patients suffering from cancer, it would enable students at the Centre to conduct research work in environmental sciences, archaeology, medicine, agriculture and medical sciences, to say nothing of crime detection.

If Pakistan’s Nobel Laureate Prof Abdus Salam, who taught at GCU when it was a college, were to glance down upon the new development, he would do so with some satisfaction. GCU has a chair and a wing named after him and is determined to recapture the “enlightenment” ideal expressed in its Kantian motto “Courage to Know”.

After decades of drift, GCU’s greatly refurbished campus is back to the discipline it saw before 1947 and will become Lahore’s premier seat of learning if the current level of support continues to be extended to it by the chancellor in Lahore, Governor Khalid Maqbool, and the HEC in Islamabad.


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plans for setting up an atom smasher with shaukat khanum underway as well for PET scan

when did GCU acquire an electron microscope? 3 years back, I went to KEMC, and they said only KEMC & AKU had electron microscopes in Pakistan (excluding some gov't institutions like NESCOM and such).

Yes, some good news!

as far as i know ke and AKU have electronic micros, not electron micros.

Ya theres a huge difference between those two things.. Can anyone clarify exactly what they have?

GIKI Topi has a Scanning electron microscope for over a dacade.