News & Press Releases

Decemter 6, 2010

Kayo Takahashi and Yasuhisa Tamura Received the Takeda Science Foundation excellent Poster Award

September 1, 2010

Observation of Movement of Drug-transport Molecules through Biliary Excretion using PET
-Analysis of in vivo drug delivery and establishment of a quantitative evaluation method-

June 10, 2010

Hiroshi Mizuma Received Poster Award of the SNM 2010 Annual Meeting.

March 9, 2010

Successful marking of drugs exhibiting antipyretic/analgesic effects and visualization in vivo: Observation of in vivo movement of anti-inflammatory drugs by PET molecular imaging

Event Infomation

November 20, 2010

OpenHouse at RIKEN Kobe Institute

July 22-23, 2010

Molecular Imaging Summer School 2010(Language:Japanese)

January 21-22, 2010

Molecular Imaging Symposium 2010 - The future with drug discovery and PET Diagnosis -

Seminar Infomation

October 27, 2010
16:00-17:00

Title :Breaking down barriers: PET imaging of blood brain integrity in epilepsy
Lecturer: Dr. Matthias J. Koepp (Professor of Neurology, Institute of Neurology, University College London and Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK)

17:00-18:00

Title :Transitory cognitive impairment in epilepsy
Lecturer: Dr. Ronit Pressler (Senior Lecturer, Institute of Child Health, University College London and Consultant Pediatric Neurophysiologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK )
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

September 7, 2010

Title :[⁶⁸Ga]Ga‐based imaging agents: diversity and accessibility
Lecturer: Dr. Irina Velikyan (Scientist, Uppsala Applied Science Lab, GEMS PET Systems AB, GE Healthcare Assoc. Prof., Unit of Biomedical Radiation Sciences, Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, Uppsala University)
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

September 6, 2010

Title :Digital Microfluidics for High‐throughput Screening and ImmunoPET Probe Development
Lecturer: Dr. Clifton Kwang‐Fu Shen (Director of Crump Cyclotron Facility and Assistant Professor at UCLA)
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

August 2, 2010

Title :Automated image analysis in microscopy: Data validation and Label‐free cell detection
Lecturer: Dr. Heikki Huttunen, Computational Systems Biology Group Department of Signal Processing Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

June 16, 2010

Title :Bacterial theragnosis and Mitochondrial Membrane Potential
Lecturer :Dr. Jung‐Joon Min
Affiliation : Director, Laboratory of In Vivo Molecular Imaging Director and Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine Chonnam National University Medical School Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

June 14, 2010

Title :HDL‐targeting therapy and apo A‐I mimetic peptides.
Lecturer :Keijiro Saku, MD, PhD, FACP, FACC
Affiliation : Director, Laboratory of In Vivo Molecular Imaging Director and Associate Professor, Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

March 30, 2010

Title : Animal PET Imaging for Drug Development
High Field MRI -MR microscopy to clinical settings-
New PET Radioligands Developed at the Karolinska
Lecturer :Dr. Hideo Tsukada Director of PET Center, Central Research Laboratory,Hamamatsu Photonics K.K
Dr. Masaya Takahashi 　Associate Professor, Advanced Imaging Center / Radiology The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Prof. Christer Halldin 　Professor and Director of the Karolinska Institutet PET Centre
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

March 16, 2010

Title : Amyloid imaging in dementia
Lecturer : Dr. Victor Villemagne
Affiliation : Senior Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Centre for PET, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

March 9, 2010

Title : Development of PET imaging agents for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
Lecturer :Dr. Daniel M. Skovronsky
Affiliation : Founder and CEO, Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc.
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science

March 2, 2010

Title :Ultra High Resolution In-vivo Human Molecular Imaging with 7.0T MRI and HRRT PET, and Some Results.
Lecturer :Prof., Zang-Hee Cho
Affiliation : University Professor and Director, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Korea Professor and Professor Emeritus, Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine
Venue : Conference Room, RIKEN Center for Molecular Imaging Science