Main tasks

• ensure a high standard of research,
• monitor the progress of the project by taking part in the annual Governing Board Meetings,
• consult the consortium and make recommendations as to improve their performance.

 

Chair

Prof. Dr. Terry Jones

1964 - 2007
MRC-Cyclotron Unit, ICSM, Hammersmith Hospital, London; initially Unit's Radiation Health Physicist participated in tumour radiobiology studies with fast neutron beam
From 1967, in collaboration with RPMS at Hammersmith, investigations into the clinical research applications of short lived, cyclotron produced radioisotopes.
In 1979 initiated and subsequently developed PET programme at MRC-CU. 
In 2000, moved to the University of Manchester to establish PET based Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) at the Christie Hospital which became operational in 2006

 

Members

 

Prof. Dr. Joan Abbot

Currently:
Professor of Neuroscience, Kings College London

Her chief interest is the ‘multi-tasking’ blood-brain barrier (BBB):

• Developing good in vitro models of the BBB
• Transport functions of the BBB and flow of interstitial fluid
• Cell:cell signalling at the BBB
• BBB modulation in pathology
• Drug delivery across the BBB
  

 

Prof. Dr. Richard Carson

Currently:
Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University; Director, Yale PET Center

Academic Positions and Work Experience:
2007 Director, Yale PET Center
2005 Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
2005-2007 Co-Director, Yale PET Center
2004-2005 Senior Scientist, Positron Emission Tomography Department, National Institutes of Health
1998-2005 Chief, Modeling and Physics Section, Positron Emission Tomography Department, National Institutes of Health
1987-1998 Staff Scientist, Department of Nuclear Medicine/Positron Emission Tomography, National Institutes of Health
1983-1987 Staff Fellow, Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Institutes of Health

 

Prof. Dr. Agneta Nordberg

Currently:
Professor for Clinical Neuroscience, Head of Department of Molecular Neuropharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
1992: Professor in Neurobiology,  Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society.

Awards:
2001 Luigi Amaducci Award in Alzheimer's Disease
2002 Swedish Society of Medicine, Alzheimer prize
2004 Imaging Award in Alzheimer Research
2007 Alois Alzheimer Award (AAA) for her life achievements in Alzheimer’s Research

 

Prof. Dr. Bengt Langström

Currently:
Professor of Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden Director of the Uppsala University PET Center
20 years experience in the synthesis and applications of radiolabeled tracers for PET
published over 280 papers in chemistry and another 355 in research related to medicine and the life sciences

Awards:
1999 Arrhenius Award from the Swedish Chemical Society

 

 

Dr. Annamaria Vezzani

Currently:
Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Neurology in the Department of Neuroscience at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy.

1982 PhD in Neuropharmacology at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacology Research
1983-1984 post-doctoral period in Baltimore at the University of Maryland working on mechanisms of epileptogenesis in experimental models
1985-1999 additional post-doctoral periods at the University of Stockholm and Karolinska Institute
2002 Sabbatical at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the laboratory of Developmental Epilepsy.

Focus of reserch is on the functional role of neuroactive peptides and inflammatory mediators in the modulation of seizures and related neuropathology, on the mechanisms of pharmacoresistance and on preclinical development of novel antiepileptic treatments.

Chair of the Commission on Neurobiology of International League Against Epilepsy which is promoting initiatives for improving translational research in epilepsy.