The programme of the Symposium will include plenary lectures given by the most esteemed international experts from different PET disciplines. Free papers are welcome for oral and poster presentations during the meeting. In addition, the Symposium programme will include parallel workshops and user meetings.
Turku PET Symposium 2025 | 6-9 June 2025 | Turku, Finland
Programme
Symposium programme
Friday, June 6th
Day 1
15:00–16:00
Turku PET Centre Site Visit, Group 1
16:00–17:00
Registration opens at the symposium venue, Turku City Theatre
17:00
Get-together
Saturday, June 7th
Day 2
8:00
Registration
08:30–10:15
Radiochemistry
8:30–9:00 | DNA damage and nuclear medicine biology Bart Cornelissen, University of Groningen/Oxford University, The Netherlands/United Kingdom |
9:00–9:30 | Radiochemical syntheses of 18F- and 11C- labeled aminopyridines for brain imaging of demyelination Pedro Brugarolas, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States |
9:30–9:45 | Free oral presentation |
9:45–10:00 | Free oral presentation |
10:00–10:15 | Free oral presentation |
10:15
Coffee & exhibition
10:45–12:30
Preclinical imaging
10:45–11:15 | Imaging inflammation and active fibrosis in multiple organs with Positron Emission Tomography Adriana Tavares, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
11:15–11:45 | PET in cell replacement therapy for diabetes Väinö Lithovius, Helmholtz Munich, Germany |
11:45–12:15 | Free oral presentation |
12:00–12:15 | Free oral presentation |
12:15–12:30 | Free oral presentation |
12:30
Lunch & exhibition
13:15–14:30
Poster session I
Radionuclide production, Radiochemistry, Modelling, Instrumentation, Preclinical imaging
14:15
Coffee & exhibition
14:30–16:00
Instrumentation session
14:30–15:00 | ENHANCE.PET: past, present and the future Lalith Kumar Shiyam Sundar, Medical University of Vienna, Austria |
15:00–15:30 | Biological Multiplexing with PET: Methods to interrogate multiple disease biomarkers in a single PET imaging session Craig S. Levin, Stanford University, United States |
15:30–15:45 | Free oral presentation |
15:45–16:00 | Free oral presentation |
16:00–17:15
Early-career researchers’ session
16:00–16:25 | My clinical academic path in cardiovascular research and molecular imaging Jason Tarkin, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
16:25–16:50 | An academic journey in metabolism: How PET became my career partner Guillermo Sánchez Delgado, Universidad de Granada, Spain |
16:50–17:15 | Career choices of a PET researcher: From academia to industry Iina Laitinen, Antaros Medical, Sweden |
18:00
Cultural experience
Sunday, June 8th
Day 3
8:30–10:30
Neuroimaging & Emotions
8:30–9:15 | Title: TBA Tom Wager, Dartmouth College, United States |
9:15–10:00 | Glymphatic dysfunction and therapy options Vesa Kiviniemi, University of Oulu, Finland |
10:00–10:15 | Free oral presentation |
10:15–10:30 | Free oral presentation |
10:30
Coffee & exhibition
11:00–13:00
Molecular imaging in cardiovascular diseases
11:00–11:30 | Molecular imaging in cardiovascular diseases – new targets James Thackeray, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Germany |
11:30–12:00 | The future of clinical nuclear cardiology Frank Bengel, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany |
12:00–12:30 | Total body perfusion in patients with chest pain Juhani Knuuti, Turku PET Centre, Finland |
12:30–12:45 | Free oral presentation |
12:45–13:00 | Free oral presentation |
13:00
Lunch & exhibition
13:45–14:45
Poster session II
Neurology, Beta cell imaging, Cardiology, Oncology
14:45
Coffee & exhibition
15:15–17:30
PET Radiochemistry 50th anniversary
15:15–15:30 | Opening Anu Airaksinen, Turku PET Centre, Finland |
15:45–16:15 | 50 Years of Radiochemistry in Turku Olof Solin, Turku PET Centre, Finland |
16:15–17:00 | Creating the Future of Neuroinflammation PET Imaging Michelle L. James, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States |
17:00–17:30 | Gadolin lecture |
19:00
Congress banquet
Monday, June 9th
Day 4
8:30–10:30
Cancer imaging
8:30–9:00 | AI in cancer PET imaging analysis Elin Trägårdh, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Sweden |
9:00–9:30 | Challenges in treatment response assessment in theranostic era Andrei Gafita, John Hopkins, United States |
10:00–10:30 | Prospects of Clinical Alpha Therapy Kalevi Kairemo, Finland |
10:30
Coffee & exhibition
11:00–13:00
Metabolism
11:00–11:45 | PET-imaging in Metabolic Activity of the Microbiota Patricia Iozzo, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy |
11:45–12:30 | Title: TBA Jarna Hannukainen, Turku PET Centre, Finland |
12:30–12:45 | Free oral presentation |
12:45–13:00 | Free oral presentation |
13:00–13:20
Closing of the symposium
Juhani Knuuti – Chairman of the Organising Committee
13:30–15:00
Turku PET Centre Site Visit, Group 2