PET-RTRC

Updates

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The 2026 PET-RTRC Annual Workshops & Scientific Session will take place February 17–19, 2026.

Headshots of Zhude (Will) Tu, PhD, and Joel Perlmutter, MD

Tu and Perlmutter Receive $3 Million for PET Tracer Research

Longtime collaborators Zhude (Will) Tu, PhD, and Joel S. Perlmutter, MD, were awarded $3 million over five years to investigate the use of PET and radiotracer [11C]CS1P1 to quantify neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease. Tu, serves as co-director of the PET-RTRC,…

Advancing Immunotherapy for Heart Failure

A type of immunotherapy approved to thread arthritis and other inflammatory conditions could also help treat heart failure. With funding and collaboration from the PET-RTRC’s TR&D 2 project (led by Yongjian Liu, PhD) and a collaborative project led by Kory…

Simon Cherry lecture poster

PET-RTRC Hosts Simon Cherry

In conjunction with the MIR Seminar Series, the PET-RTRC hosted Simon Cherry, PhD, from the University of California, Davis. Cherry, a professor emeritus with the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, presented “Advances in PET Technology and Implications…