Abstract
Radioisotopes and radiochemical methods find broad application in environmental research and nuclear medicine. This Collection provides an overview on current advances and novel concepts in radioisotope science and applications relating to human health. The Collection includes papers on radionuclide research for medical diagnostics and therapy, including isotope production and purification, radiolabelling and bioconjugation techniques. The Collection also includes papers on the applications of isotopes in environmental research.

Bio
Michael Ernst Heinrich Fassbender is a German-born American nuclear and radiochemist with more than 20 years of experience in the areas of radionuclide production, nuclear data measurement, and radioisotope separation science.

Fassbender obtained his PhD degree in nuclear/radiochemistry from the University of Cologne in 1997. After a two-year postdoc fellowship at iThembaLABS, South Africa, in the field of cyclotron radionuclide production, he came to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Postdoc Research Associate in 2000. He became permanent staff in 2002 and has taken on many technical, scientific and scholarly responsibilities within the US Department of Energy’s National Isotope Program since.