All the ISOTOPICS consortium and the 5 members of the Advisory Board attended this 1,5-day meeting organised by the Karolinska Institutet and AstraZeneca beneficiaries in September 2018 at Stockholm (Sweden). The management team informed about the administrative follow-up of the project and the 15 ISOTOPICS ESRs presented their research results and communication actions.
During the meeting, 2 plenary lectures were given by members of the advisory board. Dr. Gilles Tamagnan (Xingimaging LLC; Beijing, China) talked about imaging biomarkers development and some applications in PET imaging of neurodegenerative diseases. Prof. Bengt Långström (University of Uppsala; Sweden, UK) give insites on Carbon-11 radiopharmaceuticals development and emphasised the current need to improve isotopic labelling techniques and associated technology.
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The progresses of the PhD projects and the several dissemination and communication actions realised by the ESRs confirmed the fruitful scientific works of the consortium. The ESRs had also the opportunity to define the content of the scientific deliverables, which will be submitted this year.
A social event was organised at "Den Gyldene Freden" restaurant in Stockholm old town. All the participants enjoyed a Swedish home cooking dinner. The restaurant premises are historic and have welcomed famous Swedish singers and writers. The members of the Swedish Academy (which makes the annual decision on who will be the laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature) are used to eat in this restaurant every week.
