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BNMS Research Champions Network

BNMS Research Strategy
Prof Sabina Dizdarevic, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton

Prof Sabina Dizdarevic is the BNMS Research Lead since 2021 and has put together a group of research champions to develop the BNMS Research Strategy which is currently in development

List of Research and registry topics

  • [99Tc] PSMA
  • Total Body PET-CT national platform
  • Extravasation monitoring
  • MIBI in Renal masses – MultiMIBI multi-centre study
  • PET-CT Breast Cancer
  • PET-CT in Inflammatory disease
  • FDG PET-CT Gastric Cancer
  • DaTScan in APS, DIP and REM
  • Multi-tracer brain imaging of Dementia
  • AI in PET - Nuclear medicine specific AI
  • FDG PET-CT monitoring and predicting treatment response to TKI
  • PET-CT in Long Covid 19 & CSF
  • PSMA Database / Registry
  • MRT research multicentre trials- access to research
  • Combined alpha & beta treatments Combined MRT and non-MRT
  • PRRT registry

The National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP)

is the UK's first-of-its-kind national total-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging platform for drug discovery.

NPIP is a partnership between Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Innovate UK. It brings together transformational research from state-of-the-art total-body PET imaging scanners to transform medical research and industrialise cutting-edge technology, enhancing the quality and speed of drug discovery.

BNMS members can engage with NPIP through annual and local scientific meetings.
NPIP welcomes collaboration and would be delighted to partner with BNMS members in their research and development programmes.
Visit www.npip.org.uk to find out more

 

Research Power Pitches 2025

You are invited to take part in the Power Pitch talks during the Research Cutting Edge Session at the next BNMS Annual Spring Meeting 2025, to be held in Glasgow, 19th – 21st May 2025.

Benefits of taking part:
You will be invited to present your work in a 5-minute oral presentation in the Research Cutting Edge Session at the BNMS Annual Spring meeting alongside other internationally renowned invited speakers.
You will also receive free registration for a day, economy travel and one day accommodation.
Your submission may be published in Nuclear Medicine Communications, subject to authors agreement.

Find out more about the criteria and how to submit here

 

 

BNMS Nuclear Medicine Research Champions

Dr Maria J Acosta Medway Foundation Trust Physician
Mr Thomas Biggans Ninewells Hospital, Dundee Clinical Scientist
Prof Philip Blower King's College London Radiopharmacist
Mr Michael Chowen Patient Representative
Prof Sabina Dizdarevic - BNMS Research Lead      Brighton & Sussex University Hospital Physician
Dr Amy Eccles Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Radiologist
Dr Sameer Gangoli Brighton & Sussex University Hospital  Radiologist
Ms Maryam Jessop Brighton & Sussex University Hospital Technologist
Dr David Lilburn St Thomas' Hospital Academic
Dr Michelle Ma King's College London Academic
Dr Juliana Maynard  Catapult  PET Director and Head of Translational Imaging 
Prof Ralph McCready Brighton & Sussex University Hospital Physician
Dr Daniel McGowan Oxford University Hospitals Clinical Scientist
David Newby University of Edinburgh Physician
Gareth Pawson Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Technologist
Luisa Roldao Pereira Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Prof Vineet Prakash Royal Surrey County Hospital Physician & Radiologist
Dr Chamani Punchihewa Royal Surrey County Hospital Physician
Ms Victoria Rowse  University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust  Clinical Scientist 
Dr Nitasha Singh Brighton  & Sussex University Hospital Physician & Radiologist
Prof Jane Sosabowski  Queen Mary's University London  Reader in Molecular Imaging at Barts Cancer Institute 
Mr Giorgio Testanera King's College London
Dr Stefan Voo University College London Hospital Radiologist
Prof Jonathan Wadsley  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Physician
Miss Hannah Warren Royal Free Hospital Urologist
Dr Kshama Wechalekar Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Physician
Dr Jennifer Young King's College London Academic

 

 

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