Anna obtained her PhD at Amsterdam UMC and is currently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. Her current research focusses on the development of PET tracers for imaging the endocannabinoid system as well as other CNS targets. Her talk will focus on her PhD work on the development of new 18F-trifluoromethylation strategies with [18F]fluoroform for the synthesis of PET tracers.

Daniele obtained his PhD at the Molecular Imaging Center of Antwerp (MICA), University of Antwerp, where he is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow. His research is aimed at the application of translational neuroimaging tools to quantify functional and molecular changes as well as evaluate innovative therapeutic approaches in preclinical models of neurological diseases. The talk will focus on his PhD work during which he validated the use of novel radioligands for PET imaging in mice to identify candidate biomarkers to monitor disease progression in preclinical models of Huntington’s disease.

Annika Hess received her PhD in Molecular Imaging through the Regenerative Sciences Program at Hannover Medical School, where she focused on translational cardiovascular imaging in myocardial infarction. She continued as postdoc in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Hannover Medical School (Frank Bengel).
Annika received the Young Investigator Awards from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and at the International Conference on Nuclear Cardiology.
Her research has focused on the prognostic value of acute repair of the myocardium and its value to guide and monitor therapy. This talk will focus on Annika’s PhD thesis work, focused on image-guided treatment of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 to improve cardiac repair and chronic function after acute myocardial infarction, as published in the European Heart Journal.

Colinda Scheele obtained her PhD (with highest distinction) at the University of Utrecht. During her PhD, she worked in the lab of Jacco van Rheenen at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, where she studied the role of stem cells during development and cancer in the breast using intravital microscopy. For her PhD work she received the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek award. Directly after her PhD, she started her own laboratory at the VIB-KU Leuven center for cancer biology in Leuven. Her lab develops and uses 3D- and intravital microscopy to study the dynamics of tumor initiation and progression. But today she will talk about her PhD work on the identification of the stem cells in mammary tissues and mammary tumors.

Recording will be available soon!