Author: Miles Essex

A team of researchers, led by Professor Antony Gee within the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, recently won the Nuclear Medicine and Biology ‘Best Publication Award 2019’.

The winning paper, ‘Development of [¹⁸F]FAMTO: A novel fluorine-18 labelled positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer for imaging CYP11B1 and CYP11B2 enzymes in adrenal glands’, highlights multidisciplinary research which aims to provide a diagnostic tool to identify adrenal (suprarenal) gland malfunction.

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Dr Xie was awarded the prize in recognition of her proposed research developing an optical imaging system which guides brain tumour resection.

Dr Yijing Xie, Research Associate from King’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, has been awarded the L’Oreal-UNESCO UK and Ireland For Women in Science Rising Talent Award, which each year recognizes five outstanding women scientists to facilitate promising scientific research and support their career development.

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The Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering has granted nearly £190,000 in an internal competition for scanning projects.

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The new research demonstrated how T-splitters can ventilate two patients simultaneously

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