Consortium members and professors

KU Leuven (Belgium)

Christophe Deroose

Nuclear medicine physician, UZ Leuven and KU Leuven

Area of Expertise: Neuroendocrine tumors; Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy;Nuclear medicine applications (diagnostic and therapeutic) in digestive, hematological and respiratory oncology; Development of novel oncological radiopharmaceuticals (from atom to bedside).

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Karolien Goffin

Nuclear medicine physician, UZ Leuven and KU Leuven

Area of Expertise:
Quantitative Medical Imaging (MRI, CT, SPECT, PET)
Prof. Dr. Karolien Goffin is staff member of nuclear medicine at the University Hospital Leuven and associate professor at KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. She is part of the multidisciplinary teams dealing with uro-oncology, among others. Her main research interests are preclinical development of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, the application of existing oncological PET tracers in a broad range of malignancies and clinical settings and the introduction of novel PET tracers and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in (uro-)oncology.

Prof. Goffin is chair of the Oncology and Theranostics Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), board member of the Belgian Multidisciplinary meeting on Urological Cancers (BMUC) and member of the Imaging Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). She is associate editor of EJNMMI and editorial board member of JNM, Cancers and Clinical and Translational Imaging.

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Centre Léon Bérard / ERN-EURACAN (France)

Anne-Laure Giraudet

Centre Léon Bérard / ERN-EURACAN (France)

Area of Expertise:
Prostate Cancer, Radioligand Therapy, Thyroid cancer, Endocrine tumors.
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David Kryza

Centre Léon Bérard / ERN-EURACAN (France)

Area of Expertise:
Radiopharmacy, radiochemistry, theranostic, preclinical, radionuclide therapy
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Jean-Yves Blay

Centre Léon Bérard / ERN-EURACAN (France)

Area of Expertise:
Sarcoma, genomics, precision medicine, immune-oncology and the relationship between tumour immunologic microenvironment and malignant cell.
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Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany)

Christian la Fougère

Medical Director, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Tübingen, Germany

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Helmut Dittmann

Leitender Oberarzt, Nuklearmedizin und Klinische Molekulare Bildgebung

Area of Expertise: Radioligand therapy, Molecular imaging with PET/CT and SPECT/CT

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Gerald Reischl

Associate Professor at University Hospital “Gaetano Martino, Messina, Messina (Italy), Nuclear Medicine Unit.

Area of Expertise: I have worked in the field of Radiochemistry and Radiopharmacy for more than 25 years. My expertise includes: Cyclotron, production of PET nuclides, preparation and quality control of radiopharmaceuticals, development and automation of labeling strategies, development of analytical methods, all aspects of quality assurance and management and GMP for radiopharmaceuticals, regulatory aspects (application of manufacturing authorizations and marketing licences, creation of IMPDs for clinical trial), planning and set-up of a GMP PET radiopharmaceutical site, teaching in radiochemistry and -pharmacy.

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Nils Trautwein

Arzt in Weiterbildung, Nuklearmedizin und Klinische Molekulare Bildgebung

Area of Expertise:
Molecular imaging biomarkers for tumor heterogeneity and radioligand therapy.

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Sebastian von Beschwitz

Medizinphysik-Experte, Strahlenschutzbeauftragter

Area of Expertise:
Medical physics expert

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European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Paola Anna Erba

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria) – Scientific Coordinator

Area of Expertise: Multimodal Imaging in the clinical guideline in infectious endocarditis and CIEDs infections, Oncology, infection and inflammation

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Alfredo Campennì

Associate Professor at University Hospital “Gaetano Martino, Messina, Messina (Italy), Nuclear Medicine Unit.

Area of Expertise:
Endocrinology, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to parathyroid and thyroid disorders (benign and malignant thyroid disorders); Molecular and Multimodality imaging; Liver cancer treatment; Radionuclide therapy, dosimetry and treatment planning; Therapy response assessment

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Daniela-Elena Oprea-Lager

Associate Professor of Nuclear medicine at the Department
of Radiology and Nuclear medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (UMC),
Netherlands

Area of Expertise: PET imaging in Oncology/ Nuclear Medicine
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Emmanouil Panagiotidis

MD, MSc, PhD, FEBNM, Senior Lecturer University of Liverpool

Area of Expertise: Radionuclide Therapy, PET CT

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Irene A. Burger

Chefärztin Nuklearmedizin, Kantonsspital Baden

Area of Expertise: Oncology hybrid imaging, focus on prostate cancer

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Johannes Tran-Gia

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoktorand) bei Universitätsklinikum Würzburg

Area of Expertise:
Dosimetry of Radiopharmaceutical Therapies
Quantitative Medical Imaging (MRI, CT, SPECT, PET)
Harmonization of Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy
3D Printing Applications for Nuclear Medicine
Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Medicine

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Knut Liepe

Nuclear Medicine physician and paediatric
Head of Dept Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Frankfurt (Oder)

Area of Expertise:
radiosynovectomy, radionuclide therapy using bone seeking agents, 177Lu-PSMA, PSMA imaging esp 99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT, dosimetry

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Luca Giovanella

Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Centre
Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland

Area of Expertise:
Molecular imaging and theranostics of thyroid, endocrine and prostate tumors

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Moritz Zieglmeier

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
Project Manager for EU Activities and Projects for the EARL (EANM Forschungs GmbH)

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Murat Tuncel

Hacettepe University Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye
EANM Thyroid Committee member

Paolo Castellucci

MD presso S.Orsola Malpighi Hospital – Bologna

Area of Expertise: PET imaging in Oncology; Prostate cancer theragnostic

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Petra Petranović Ovčariček

Nuclear medicine physician,
European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
University of Zagreb

Area of Expertise:
Nuclear medicine, thyroid, parathyroid, integrated diagnostics, theranostics, molecular imaging, endocrine tumors

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Sergio Todde

Senior Researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca, and Director of Tecnomed, Foundation of the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Area of Expertise:
Main research areas are in the field of Radiochemistry and Radiopharmacy, with special emphasis for the radiosynthesis and characterization of novel PET radiopharmaceuticals. Other research interests are in the field of target development for the cyclotron production of radionuclides and the development of automated radiosynthetic processes.
He is also Responsible of Quality Assurance and Radiopharmaceutical Preparations at the laboratories of Tecnomed, Foundation of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has been the Head of Italian Interdisciplinary Group of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry (GICR) in the years 2010-2011. In the time 2009-2017, he has been a member of the Radiopharmacy Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM). Since 2010, he is also member of the Radiopharmacy Working Group of the Italian Agency of Medicine (AIFA) and collaborator of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Author or co-author of 54 publications on peer reviewed journals and book editor.

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Thomas Walter

Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

Area of Expertise:
Thomas Walter, MD, PhD, is a professor of gastroenterology and works in digestive oncology at Hospices Civils de Lyon (ENETS Center of Excellence), France. He is the scientific coordinator of the French Network of Endocrine Tumours (GTE). Prof Walter also leads a translational research lab focused on NETs. He completed his PhD at the university of Lyon, France. He served a fellowship in medical oncology at the University of Toronto-Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada. His main field of interest are gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (GEP-NET) and lung carcinoid tumours. He is involved in many subjects, including prognostics stratification, systemic treatments (chemotherapy and targeted therapies) and biomarkers. Prof Walter has experience as principal coordinator of randomized phase II trials (EVACEL, NIPINEC, MGMT-NET, BEVANEC). His work has appeared in more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, mainly in neuroendocrine neoplasms.

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Jean-Pierre Pouget

Hospices Civils de Lyon, France

Area of Expertise:
Radiobiology For Targeted And Personalized Radiotherapy

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Jonathan Gear

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
Medical Physics Expert, Radioligand Therapy Expert, Dosimetry and Radiation

Caroline Stokke

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Silvano Gnesin

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
Biomedical Clinical And Pre-Clinical Imaging And Internal Dosimetry; SSRMP Certificate In Medical Physics; Strong Competence In Nuclear Physics And Radiation Physics Diagnostics

Pablo Minguez Gabiña

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
Dosimetry, Molecular Radiotherapy, Quality Assurance, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Protection

Francesco Dondi

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
18F-FDG PET/CT, 18F-PSMA PET/CT, 68Ga-DOTA PET/CT, Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, Differentiated Thyroid Cancer, Bone Scan

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Jacopo Milul

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Area of Expertise:
Radioligand Research And Developement

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Mattias Sandstrom

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Salvatore Annunziata

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Peter Bernhadt

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

Niklas Harland

European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM – Austria)

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Hendrik Van Poppel

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Area of Expertise:
Oncologic urology

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Sarah Collen

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Area of Expertise:
Senior Policy Manager; Policy Initiatives in healthcare and EU affairs, European Union, Policy Analysis, Health Policy, Medical Research, EU funding, Stakeholder Engagement, and International Relations.

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Anders Bjartell

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Area of Expertise:
Prostate cancer: screening, staging, imaging, robotic surgery, combination therapies.

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Ton Brouwers

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Area of Expertise:
Manager Education And Training, Skill Training, Surgical Skills, Surgical Education

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Jochen Walz

European Association of Urology (EAU – Netherlands)

Area of Expertise:
Uro-Oncology and Imaging

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Hospital San Pau (Spain)

Ignasi Carrio

Hospital San Pau (Spain)

Area of Expertise:
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

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I.R.S.T. Meldola (Italy)

Giovanni Paganelli

Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori | IRST MD

Area of Expertise:
Expertise in nuclear medicine both in diagnostic and therapeutic field. Opinion leader in particular for theragnostic.

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Valentina Bugani

I.R.S.T. Meldola (Italy)

Area of Expertise:
Responsible for planning, management and reporting of all training and development programs: Residential Training, Field Training, E-Learning, External Training, Internships, Masters

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Luca Battistelli

I.R.S.T. Meldola (Italy)

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Maddalena Sansovini

I.R.S.T. Meldola (Italy)

Area of Expertise:
Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of nuclear medicine in oncology
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Manuela Monti

I.R.S.T. Meldola (Italy)

Area of Expertise:
Clinical Research

Bio:
Manuela Monti graduated in Biology in 1998, she gained a master degree in “Scienze Regolatorie del Farmaco” at Sapienza University of Rome in collaboration with AIFA in 2014. Since 2007 she works at Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori, IRST IRCCS, as Clinical Research Coordinator at Biostatiistic and Clinical Trials Unit; during the last 5 years she has acquired regulatory expertise in drugs development but also in medical device field. She is currently the reference person for regulatory issues. She provides methodological, scientific and administrative support for clinical research activities both for national and international clinical trials.

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Valentina Di Iorio

Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori | IRST Radiopharmacy

Area of Expertise:
Radiopharmacy

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Ilaria Grassi

Nuclear medicine physician, Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori “Dino Amadori”

Area of Expertise: Nuclear medicine physician with expertise in radionuclide therapy, PET/CT, scintigraphy, thyroid ultrasound. Researcher. Papers co-writer and reviewer.

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Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Ken Herrmann

Chair, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Universitätsmedizin Essen

Area of Expertise:
Board certified Nuclear Medicine physician, theranostic expert, focus on translation of innovative theranostic concepts

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Pedro Fragoso Costa

Medical Faculty of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Area of Expertise:
Medical Physics Expert, Radioligand Therapy Expert, Dosimetry and Radiation

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Policlinico Gemelli (Italy)

Alessandro Giordano

Policlinico Gemelli (Italy)

Area of Expertise:
Leadership in Nuclear Medicine; organization of a dept. of Nuclear Medicine; history of Nuclear Medicine; radiation protection in nuclear medicine.

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Esther Diana Rossi

Policlinico Gemelli (Italy)

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Germano Perotti

Policlinico Gemelli (Italy)

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Semmelweis University (Hungary)

Katalin Bús

Semmelweis University (Hungary)

Area of Expertise:
Specialist of Nuclear Medicine

Tamás Györke

Head of Department of Nuclear Medicine
Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest

Area of Expertise:
Specialist of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology

Nándor Richárd Kelemen

Resident, nuclear medicine,
Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest

Area of Expertise:
Nuclear medicine, resident

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Róbert Jóba

Medical Imaging Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest