Advancing Science, Building Community at the 2024 PET-RTRC Workshops and Scientific Session
The PET Radiotracer Translation and Resource Center (PET-RTRC) at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) hosted the fifth annual Workshops and Scientific Session on February 20–22, 2024, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The event brings together members of the PET radiotracer design, development, training and use community throughout the country.
The agenda included immunotherapy and neuroimaging workshops, a tour of MIR’s radiotracer facilities, plenary and supporting lectures focused on cardiac inflammation and imaging of lung disease and a poster session sharing faculty and trainee research.
- Matthew Brier, MD, PhD, “Imaging Neuroinflammation for CNS”
- Steven L. Brody, MD, “Clinical Needs for Molecular Imaging of Non-Malignant Lung Disease”
- Aisling Chaney, PhD, “Updates in Imaging Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation”
- Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira, PhD, “Radiation and the Immune System: From Imaging to Immunomodulation”
- Gyu Seong Heo, PhD, “Inflammation PET Imaging with Novel PET Tracers”
- Oluwatayo “Tayo” Ikotun, PhD, “Imaging of the Immune System: T-Cell Imaging”
- Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, “Mechanistic Determinants of Cardiac Inflammation and Fibrosis”
- Yongjian Liu, PhD, “Imaging of the Immune System: Macrophage Imaging”
- Reiko Oyama, “FDA Regulatory Update 1”
- Patrícia Ribeiro Pereira, PhD, “Tools for Imaging: Immune Imaging with Antibodies/Nanobodies”
- Peter J. H. Scott, PhD, “FDA Regulatory Update 2”
- Vijay Sharma, PhD, “Challenges in the Prediction of Compounds Crossing the BBB”
- Sina Tavakoli, MD, PhD, “PET Imaging of Lung Inflammation-Fibrosis Axis by Targeting Chemokine-Like Receptor 1 (CMKLR1)”
- Henry VanBrocklin, PhD, “Tools for Imaging: Immune Imaging with Peptides/Small Molecules”
- Qing Wang, PhD, “Exploring Neuroinflammation Using Diffusion MR Imaging”
- Kirstin A. Zettlitz, PhD, “Imaging Components of the Immune System: Imaging Secreted Markers/Cytokines”
Empowered by a recent P41 grant renewal from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, programming like the Annual Workshops & Scientific Session is part of the center’s mission serving as a global innovation hub for novel PET radiotracer development.
The grant, which has provided crucial support, was first awarded in 2018 and was the first of its kind to focus on this area. With the renewed funding, the PET-RTRC aims to strengthen its role as a national resource, uniting experts in PET radiotracer design, development, production, training and dissemination to ultimately advance biomedical research and human health worldwide.
