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,…

The PET Radiotracer Translation and Resource Center (PET-RTRC) at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) hosted the sixth annual Workshops and Scientific Session from February 18–20, 2025. The event brings together members of the PET radiotracer community throughout the…

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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…

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…