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Programme Committees
ESMI Presidents (Supervision)
- Tim Witney, London (President) | Greetje Vande Velde (Vice President) | Jolanda de Vries – Nijmegen (Past President)
Chairs per Main Category (Category Chairs)
- 1 – Physics, Engineering & Technologies
- Juan Aguirre – Madrid | Ronald Boellaard – Amsterdam | Christian Langkammer – Graz | Chris Vanhove – Ghent
- 2 – Probe Chemistry & Reporter Genes
- Stephen Archibald – London | Giuseppe Ferrauto – Torino | Fernando Herranz – Madrid | Lei Wang – Portland
- 3 – Data Processing, Analysis & Modeling
- Pablo Aguiar – Santiago de Compostela | Robert Jeraj – Ljubljana
- 4 – Image-Guided Therapy
- Michelle Bradbury – New York | Roger Molto Pallares – Aachen
- 5 – Cardiovascular & Respiratory
- Alkystis Phinikaridou – London | Gijs van Soest – Rotterdam
- 6 – CNS & Peripheral Nerves
- Silvia De Santis – Alicante | Caroline Guglielmetti – St. Louis | Andreas Hess – Erlangen
- 7 – Oncology
- Timo De Groof – Brussels | Patricia Pereira – St Louis | John Ronald – London (ON)
- 8 – Immunology, Inflammation, & Infection
- Vladimir Ponomarev – New York | Angèle Viola – Marseille
- 9 – NAMs & In Vitro Models
- Federica De Lorenzi – Nijmegen | Alex Poot – Utrecht
Chairs per Abstract Category (Abstract chairs)
1 – Physics, Engineering & Technologies
a – PET/SPECT, Hybrid: Nikos Efthimiou – Boston | Antonio Gonzalez – Valencia | Michel Koole – Leuven | Nicolaus Kratochwil – Davis | Sun Il Kwon – Davis | Gabriela Llosa – Paterna | Pawel Moskal – Krakow | Negar Omidvari – Sacramento | Ivo Rausch – Vienna | Elena Zannoni – Austin
b – MRI, MRS: Yannick Crémillieux – Bordeaux | James Grist – Oxford | Jean-Noël Hyacinthe – Lausanne | Andrada Ianus – London | Joshua Kaggie – Cambridge | Chris Laustsen – Aarhus | Alexandra Lipka – Heidelberg | Ali Özen – Freiburg | Pinar Özbay – Istanbul | Mathieu Santin – Paris | Noam Shemesh – Lisbon
c – MPI: Daniel Baumgarten – Innsbruck | Thorsten Buzug – Lübeck | Paula Foster – London | Alexey Tonyushkin – Rochester
d – Optical: Hamed Abbasi – Rotterdam | Marco Andreana – Vienna | Peter Friedl – Nijmegen | Wuwei Ren – Shanghai
e – Ultrasound & Optoacoustics: Beatrice Berthon – Paris | Charlie Demené – Paris | Janek Gröhl – Aachen | Mohesh Moothanchery – Liverpool | Maylin Perez-Liva – Madrid | Hannah Vogt-Wolz – Erlangen
f – X-Ray: Monica Abella – Madrid | Giuliana Tromba – Trieste
fg- Spatial Tissue Omics (incl. MSI, Genomics): Davide Franchina – Palo Alto | Nina Ogrinc – Lille | Nicole Strittmatter – Munich | Zoltan Takats – London
2 – Probe Chemistry & Reporter Genes
a – PET/SPECT, X-Ray, CT: Julia Baguña – Madrid | Filipe Elvas – Antwerp | Lara Garcia Varela – Santiago de Compostela | Sophie Poty – Dijon | Mirkka Sarparanta – Helsinki | Adriana Tavares – Edinburgh | Michela Varani – Barcelona | Thomas Wanek – Vienna
b – MRI: Andrea Galisova – Prague | Sophie Laurent – Mons | Sara Martinez de Lizarrondo – Caen | Robert Ohlendorf – Tuebingen | Franz Schilling – Munich | Sanhita Sinharay – Bangalore
c – MPI: Karen Alt – Monash | Jeff Bulte – Baltimore | Carlos Rinaldi-Ramos – Florida | Ali Shakeri-Zadeh – Baltimore
d – Optical: Marina Benito-Vicente – Madrid | Christine Goze – Dijon | Sophie Hernot – Brussels | Kai Licha – Berlin | Laura Mezzanotte – Helsinki | Fay Nicolson – Boston
e – Optoacoustic, Ultrasound: Una Goncin, Glasgow | David Maresca, Delft | Francoise Chuburu, Reims
f – Multimodal: Susana Carregal-Romero – San Sebastian | Patrick Cieslik – Mannheim | Kristina Djanashvili – Delft | Ermal Ismalaj – San Sebastian | Francois Lux – Lyon | Juan Pellico – Barcelona
g – Theranostics Agents: Jason Holland – Zurich | Daniel Jirak – Prague | Maria Rosaria Ruggiero – Rome | Peter Scott – Michigan | Youssef Wadghiri – New York
3 – Data Processing, Analysis & Modeling
a – Acquisition, Reconstruction & Processing: Pedro Correia – Aveiro | Thomas Küstner – Tuebingen | Grzegorz Kwiatkowski – Leuven | Matija Milanič – Ljubljana
b – Quantification & Analysis: Irene Buvat – Paris | Jianxu Chen – Dortmund | Claudia Kuntner-Hannes – Vienna | Serena Monti – Naples | Emma Munoz-Moreno – Barcelona | Sara Neyt – Gent | Jošt Stergar – Ljubljana | Harry Tsoumpas – Groningen
c – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Modelling: Zuhir Bodalal – Amsterdam | Teresa Correia – Faro | Dario Longo – Turin | Riccardo Scodellaro – Goettingen | Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar – Munich
4 – Image-Guided Therapy
a – Interventional & Surgical Imaging: Francesco Cicone – Catanzaro | Dimitris Gkorpas – Munich | Stefan Harmsen – Leiden | Wouter Nagengast – Groningen | Dominic Robinson – Rotterdam | Pieter van der Zaag – Groningen | Max Witjes – Groningen
b – Image-Guided Drug Delivery: Roman Barmin – Aachen | Clemens Bos – Utrecht | Rafael de Rosales – London | Roel Deckers – Utrecht | Sara Gamelas – Lisbon | Philippe Garrigue – Marseille
c – Theranostics Application: Hendrikus Boersma – Groningen | Peter Gawne – London | Cinzia Imberti – London | Stephen Patrick – London | Jiang Yang – Guangzhou
5 – Cardiovascular & Respiratory
a – Cardiac Imaging: Bram Coolen – Amsterdam | Uli Flögel – Dusseldorf | Verena Hörr – Bonn | Baktybek Kojonazarov – Giessen | Jesus Ruiz-Cabello – Madrid | Rick Southworth – London | Gustav Strijkers – Amsterdam | Bertrand Tavitian – Paris
b – Vascular Imaging: Thomas Bonnard – Caen | Alexis Broisat – Paris | James Thackeray – Hanover | Mandy van Leent – New York | Katrien Vandoorne – Haifa | Min Wu – Eindhoven
c – Pulmonary Imaging: Paul Hughes – Sheffield | Agilo Luitger Kern – Hanover | Irma Mahmutovic Persson – Lund | Francesca Pennati – Milan
6 – CNS & Peripheral Nerves
a – Brain Structure & Receptors: Jens Bankstahl – Hanover | Eike Budinger – Magdeburg | Jason Cai – Yale | Kiel Neumann – Memphis | Ruiqing Ni – Bern
b – Brain Metabolism, Function & Perfusion: Celine Baligand – Fontenay-aux-Roses | Philipp Boehm-Sturm – Berlin | Susan Boretius – Goettingen | Daniele de Paula Faria – Sao Paulo | Shreya Goel – Salt Lake City | Shannon Helsper – Leuven | Uwe Himmelreich – Leuven | Abraham Martin – Bilbao | Yuhei Takado – Chiba | Tamara Vasilkovska – San Francisco
c – Neuroimaging in Disease Models: Daniele Bertoglio – Antwerp | Diana Cash – London | Aisling Chaney – St. Louis | Pilar Lopez Larrubia – Madrid | Nadja Van Camp – Fontenay-aux-Roses | Louise van der Weerd – Leiden | Dominik von Elverfeldt – Freiburg | Valerio Zerbi – Geneva
7 – Oncology
a – Cancer Biology (incl. Metabolism) & Microenvironment: Gilbert Fruhwirth – London | Simone Krebs – Houston | Andre Martins – Tuebingen | Miles Miller – Boston | Norika Sato – Bethesda | Alexandros Sofias – Aachen | Bettina Weigelin – Tuebingen
b – Cancer Diagnosis: Ferdia Gallagher – Cambridge | Jan Grimm – New York | Willemien Menke-van der Houven van Oordt – Amsterdam | Johannes Schwenck – Tuebingen
c – Cancer Therapy (incl. Immunotherapy): Israt Alam – Stanford | Alexandre Detappe – Strasbourg | Sandra Heskamp – Nijmegen | John Kelly – London | Katharina Lückerath – Essen | Arnab Mukherjee – Santa Barbara | Nivin Nystrom – Pasadena | Cristina Simo – St. Louis
8 – Immunology, Inflammation & Infection
a – Immune System Dynamics & Immunopathology: Erik Aarntzen – Groningen | Wissam Beaino – Amsterdam | Christoph Hagemayer – Melbourne | Ferdinand Knieling – Erlangen | Willem Mulder – Eindhoven | Barbara Schoerg – New York | Dominik Sonanini – Tuebingen | Conny van der Laken – Amsterdam
b – Infection & Tissue Immunity: Nicolas Beziere – Tuebingen | Maxime Gauberti – Caen | Dima Hammoud – Bethesda | Thibaut Naninck – Fontenay-aux-Roses | Marieke Stammes – Rijswijk | Hyewon Youn – Seoul
9 – In Vitro Models
Theresa Balber – Istanbul | Marco Cavaco – Lisbon | Simone Dalm – Rotterdam | Suzanne Kossatz – Munich | Steffi Lehmann – Wädenswil | Tor Rasmus Memhave – Göttingen | Mariam-Eleni Oraiopoulou – Cambridge | Maria Alejandra Ortega Machuca – Barcelona | Verena Pichler – Vienna | Sanne van Lith – Nijmegen | David Wilson – San Francisco
Local /Italian Committee
- Nicola Belcari – Pisa
- Daniele Bertoglio – Antwerp
- Giuseppe Digilio – Alessandria
- Marco Erreni – Milan
- Dario Longo – Torino
- Laura Mezzanotte – Delft/Helsinki
- Rosa Maria Moresco – Milan
- Antonello Spinelli – Milan
- Enzo Terreno – Torino
- Giuliana Tromba – Trieste
Educational Session Organizers
- Frauke Alves – Göttingen
- Amnon Bar-Shir – Rehovot
- Guy Bormans – Leuven
- Peter Caravan – Boston
- Simon Cherry – London
- Ferdia Gallagher – Cambridge
- Roman Jerala – Ljubljana
- Maddy Parsons – London
- André Stiel – Munich
- Dimitri Stowbur – Tuebingen
- Jolanda de Vries – Nijmegen
- Giannis Zacharakis – Heraklion
YIA Committee
- Michelle Bradbury – New York
- Federica De Lorenzi – Aachen/Nijmegen
- Silvia De Santis – Alicante
- Vladimir Ponomarev – New York
- John Ronald – London (ON)
- Gijs van Soest – Rotterdam
- Chris Vanhove – Ghent
