Welcome to the website for RADAM

The COST Action RADAM was established by the COST Physics Committee as its ninth Action Programme (P9) in 2002. Funded for 4 years it has been ratified by 14 European countries and was formally launched in November 2003. Its main objective is to obtain a detailed understanding of the fundamental interaction processes initiated by the deposition of various types of radiation in biological material

Latest News

(Last Updated:24th November 2008)


First announcement for for RADAM 2009

  • The 6th Conference on Radiation Damage in Biomolecular Systems (RADAM 2009) meeting will be held from the 1st to the 4th of July in Frankfurt am Main. The website address for the meeting is http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/radam2009/

The website for the RADAM 2005 meeting in Potsdam has been moved

  • The old domain name expired, but so that information from the meeting can be viewed the site has been moved to another server. The new website address for the RADAM 2005 meeting is
    www.isa.au.dk/meetings/radam05

News archive page added

  • A new page has been added which contains old items of news which previously appeared on the front page

No STSMs are available at the present time

The network is arranged in 5 working groups

WG1: Electron and biomolecular interactions (Chair; D Field )
WG2: Ions and biomolecular interactions (Chair; T Schlathölter)
WG3: Radiation in physiological environments (Chair; K McGuigan
WG4: Theoretical developments for radiation damage (Chair; M C Bacchus)
WG5: Track Structure in cells (Chair; H Paretzke)

Previous Working group meetings

  • WG1: Electron and Biomolecular interactions, 14th/15th February 2004, Aarhus
       2nd Meeting: 23-25th February 2006, Lisbon, Portugal
  • WG3: Radiation in physiological environments, 27th February, Dublin
  • WG2: Ions and Biomolecular interactions, 5th/6th March, Groningen
  • WG4: Theoretical Developments for Radiation Damage, 30th October 2004, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

Meeting dates/locations for the other working groups will be announced soon and details posted on this website.

Previous Conferences