{"entity":{"id":"laurie-proton-therapy-center","kind":"institution","name":"Laurie Proton Therapy Center (Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital)","aka":["Laurie Proton Therapy Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital","The Laurie Proton Therapy Center"],"tldr":"The proton therapy centre of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, run with Rutgers Cancer Institute and opened in 2016 with a compact single-room proton machine.","summary":"Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital announced the Laurie Proton Therapy Center in March 2016, as reported by Innovation New Jersey on 18 March 2016, offering proton therapy on its New Brunswick academic campus in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The programme was led by Bruce G. Haffty, chair of radiation oncology at Rutgers, with Atif J. Khan as medical director. The machine is the MEVION S250 by Mevion Medical Systems, which the release describes as 75 per cent smaller and using 90 per cent less energy than traditional systems. NAPT lists the centre at 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital unveils Laurie Proton Therapy Center (Innovation New Jersey, 18 March 2016)","url":"https://www.innovationnj.net/news/robert-wood-johnson-university-hospital-unveils-laurie-proton-therapy-center"},{"label":"National Association for Proton Therapy: Find a Center","url":"http://proton-therapy.org/findacenter/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["proton-therapy","proton-therapy-systems"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":["mevion"],"institutions":["rutgers-cinj"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["rwjbh.org answered 403 on 4 November 2026, so the hospital's own page could not be read; the 2016 announcement as republished by Innovation New Jersey was used. Current leadership and patient numbers are not stated."],"city":"New Brunswick","country":"US","lat":40.495,"lng":-74.45,"institutionType":"hospital","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/laurie-proton-therapy-center/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"proton-therapy","kind":"technology","name":"Proton therapy","route":"/technologies/proton-therapy/"},{"id":"proton-therapy-systems","kind":"technology","name":"Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems","route":"/technologies/proton-therapy-systems/"}],"company":[{"id":"mevion","kind":"company","name":"Mevion Medical Systems","route":"/companies/mevion/"}],"institution":[{"id":"rutgers-cinj","kind":"institution","name":"Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey","route":"/institutions/rutgers-cinj/"}]}}