The ESMI | founded in 2005
Looking 20 years back in time!
The 20th EMIM in March 2025 marked also the 20th anniversary of the ESMI. Special thanks to the former President, Jordi Llop, who took us 20 years back in time. Learn more about the society’s roots – a “must see”:
The initial aims of creating a multidisciplinary, collaborative European MI society back in 2005 were
- to ensure sustainability of achievements and network resulting from the first collaborative European/EU funded molecular imaging research projects namely “Diagnostic Molecular Imaging DiMI” and “European Molecular Imaging Laboratories EMIL” and
- to create one strong, science-driven, multidisciplinary community advocating imaging science throughout Europe and beyond.
The coordinators of the two research projects (Andreas Jacobs – DiMI, Bertrand Tavitian – EMIL) and the project partners were the founding fathers an driving forces of the ESMI. Bertrand and Andreas became first and second ESMI President.
In 2010 the EC-funded project periods of both networks ended and the ESMI established an independent structure.
ESMI Founding Members
- Silvio Aime – Torino, Italy
- Frank Bengel – Hannover, Germany
- Harald Carlsen – Oslo, Norway
- John Clark – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Silvana Delvecchio – Napels, Italy
- Denis Guilloteau – Tours, France
- Arend Heerschap – Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Mathias Hoehn – Cologne, Germany
- Andreas Jacobs – Bonn, Germany
- Clemens Lowik – Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Helmut Maecke – Freiburg, Germany
- Adriana Maggi – Milan, Italy
- Chrit Moonen – Utrecht, Netherlands
- Robert Muller – Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
- David Parker – Durham, United Kingdom
- Anna Planas – Barcelona, Spain
- Frank Roesch – Mainz, Germany
- Bertrand Tavitian – Paris, France
- Go van Dam – Groningen, Netherlands
- Annemie van der Linden – Antwerp, Belgium