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Read more at: Simon Zientek and his MICL colleagues have a review article published in the Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals

Simon Zientek and his MICL colleagues have a review article published in the Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals

5 July 2023

Simon’s article is entitled “ The Inverse Electron Demand Diels Alder Cycloaddition with Carbon-11 and Fluorine-18 – A Gateway to Pretargeted Imaging across the Blood-Brain Barrier”. This article is part of a special issue of the journal titled “Blood Brain Barrier - tactics and attributes in developing successful...

Read more at: MICL researchers Stephen Thompson and Selena M Sephton have been awarded the MS Catalyst Award for investigating novel PET radiotracers for imaging NAAA in MS.

MICL researchers Stephen Thompson and Selena M Sephton have been awarded the MS Catalyst Award for investigating novel PET radiotracers for imaging NAAA in MS.

5 July 2023

We hope to use PET to enable us to obtain a quantitative measure of neuroinflammation in the MS brain. We aim to achieve this by developing a novel radiotracer for imaging NAAA enzyme which has been shown to be implicated in the neuroinflammatory processes, particularly in MS. The award includes a one year studentship for...

Read more at: Dr Nisha Kuzhuppilly Ramakrishnan and PhD student Helgi Danielsson receive funding from the Wellcome Developing Concept Fund (DCF) and the MS Society

Dr Nisha Kuzhuppilly Ramakrishnan and PhD student Helgi Danielsson receive funding from the Wellcome Developing Concept Fund (DCF) and the MS Society

31 May 2023

The research involves the development of positron emission tomography ( PET) Imaging Radiopharmaceuticals for Multiple Sclerosis Therapies. It will form the basis of Helgi Danielsson's PhD, which aims to develop PET radiopharmaceuticals that will enable the correct treatment to be selected for people affected by multiple...

Read more at: Congratulations to MICL PhD student Catherine Dickmann for her article published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal, Chemical Communications

Congratulations to MICL PhD student Catherine Dickmann for her article published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's journal, Chemical Communications

31 May 2023

Just after starting her PhD at MICL, Catherine Dickmann had her MSc research report published in Chemical Communications, titled: Bromodomain and extraterminal protein-targeted probe enables tumour visualisation in vivo using positron emission tomography. In summary: Bromodomain and extraterminal (BET) proteins, a family...

Read more at: Dr Yanyan Zhao is a contributory author to a paper published in Nature

Dr Yanyan Zhao is a contributory author to a paper published in Nature

7 December 2022

Soluble α-synuclein aggregates varying in size, structure, and morphology have been closely linked to neuronal death in Parkinson’s disease. A reliable non-perturbative method to separate a heterogeneous mixture of protein aggregates by size had been established between members of Professor Klenerman’s lab and Dr Yanyan...

Read more at: MICL heads to Brain and Brain PET

MICL heads to Brain and Brain PET

10 June 2022

Dr Nisha Ramakrishnan attended the Brain and Brain PET conference in Glasgow in May 2022. She presented her poster titled, "PET imaging of a transgenic tau rat model with [18F]AV1451". Nisha was grateful to receive full funding for her trip to Glasgow from the University of Cambridge Career support fund. She used this...

Read more at: MICL heads to ISRS

MICL heads to ISRS

6 June 2022

Last week, 3 members of the MICL group went to Nantes in France to take part in the International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (iSRS). Prof Franklin Aigbirhio, Dr Stephen Thompson and PhD candidate Simon Zientek were all in attendance, with Stephen and Simon both presenting posters. All three had a great time...

Read more at: [11C]UCB-J paper one of publishers most cited article

[11C]UCB-J paper one of publishers most cited article

4 April 2022

Great news from the Aigbirhio group that Dr Selena Sephton-Milicevic's papers, "Automated radiosynthesis of [ 11 C]UCB-J for imaging synaptic density by positron emission tomography" has been cited by Wiley as one of their most cited papers in the Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals. This is brilliant...

Read more at: Funding obtained

Funding obtained

24 February 2022

We are thrilled to announce that one of our 2nd year PhD students, Simon Zientek, has received a travel award by the SRS education committee. This will help towards his travel expenses to ISRS 2022 in Nantes (May 29- June 2nd). Many congratulations to Simon for receiving this funding and for having his abstract selected...

Read more at: GE healthcare enter into collaboration with MICL

GE healthcare enter into collaboration with MICL

11 October 2021

The Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (MICL, Dept of Clinical Neuroscience) at the University of Cambridge and GE Healthcare have entered into an agreement in which members of the GE Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Diagnostics, R&D Radiochemistry team will become visiting research scientists based at the MICL facility...

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