Top Thesis Webinar Series

Next Edition on 7 May on “Immuno-Oncology & PET Imaging”

This is a series of short webinars highlighting the outstanding work of the finalists of the ESMI Award for Excellent PhD Thesis – the highest merit of the society presented to an early-career scientists for their outstanding thesis work.

Immuno-Oncology & PET Imaging | 7 May 2025

The speaker: Laura Kist de Ruijter

Laura obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, at the department of Medical Oncology in the research group of Elisabeth de Vries. She is currently working as an MD/rheumatologist in training at the department of internal medicine at the Deventer Hospital. 

This webinar will highlight several PET studies from her PhD with 89Zr-antibody tracers, exploring factors related to the effects of immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with cancer, as well as their potential as a biomarker to predict treatment outcomes.

Registration is free of charge, but obligatory. Webinars are held via Zoom and open to all (members and non-members). All yESMInars are recorded.

Former Editions 2021-2024

Edition 2024

#1/24 | Nikita Sushentsev, Cambridge – Clinical and biological validation of hyperpolarised MRI of prostate cancer

#2/24 | Ravian L. van Ineveld – A panoramic view of the phenotypic landscape of healthy and tumor tissues–Multispectral 3D microscopy of intact tissues

Edition 2023

• #1/23 | Anna Pees, Toronto (formerly Amsterdam) – [18F]Fluoroform – a Versatile Building Block for PET Tracer Synthesis
• #2/23 | Mandy van Leent, New York – Employing Nanomedicine in Inflammatory Diseases
• #3/23 | Cristina Barca, Hannover (formerly Muenster) – Multimodal Molecular Imaging of modulated neuroinflammatory response in experimental stroke

Edition 2022

#1/22 | Nicole Barth, Edinburgh – Development of a novel imaging platform for the detection of apoptotic cells
#2/22 | Doreen Lau, Cambridge – Imaging Biomarkers of Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Melanoma