The ESMI | founded in 2005
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