Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor Kimberly A. Kelly, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Email: mibeditor@wmis.org
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Sylvia D. Anderson B.A., Director of Operations, World Molecular Imaging Society, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
CONSULTING EDITORS
Professor Emeritus Kevin M. Brindle, Ph.D., F.Med.Sci., F.R.S., Senior Group Leader of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor Jason S. Lewis, PhD., Emily Tow Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Dr. Jung-Joon Min, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Director of the Institute for Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea
Professor Anna Moore, Ph.D., Director of the Precision Health Program, Assistant Dean of the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
Professor Michal Neeman, Ph.D., The Helen and Morris Mauerberger Professorial Chair in Biological Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Professor Bernd Pichler, Ph.D., Head of Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Director of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy in the Department of Radiology, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Professor Julie L. Sutcliffe, Ph.D., Director of the Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Facility at the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America
Professor Mei Tian, M.D., Ph.D., Executive President of the Human Phenome Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
SENIOR EDITORS
Cardiology
Carlos Pérez-Medina, Ph.D., Head of the Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Laboratory, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid, Spain
Professor Rong Zhou, Ph.D., Director of the Metabolic & Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory, Full Member of Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Clinical Emphasis, First-in-Human
Dr. Erik Aarntzen, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Dr. Ferdia Gallagher, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Scientist Fellow at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Honorary Consultant Radiologist in the Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor Fabian Kiessling, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Dr. Andrew M. Scott, M.D., Director of the Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy at Austin Health, La-Trobe Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute Node Director, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Hyewon Youn, Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Imaging Center, Seoul National University Hospital; Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Educational/Commissioning Editors
Professor H. Charles Manning, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Professor Jie (Jay) Tian, Ph.D., Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Emerging Technologies
Professor Paula Foster, Ph.D., Leader of the Cellular MRI Program, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Professor Ralph P. Mason, Ph.D., Director of the Cancer Imaging Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Professor John Ronald, Ph.D., Director of the Imaging Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Professor Peter J. H. Scott, Ph.D., Division Director of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Director of the Department of Radiology’s Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Facility, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
Dr. Yasuyoshi Watanabe, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the RIKEN BDR-DAIKIN Collaboration Center, RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan
Hybrid Imaging
Dr. Onofrio Catalano, M.D., Ph.D., Martinos Center PET/MR Medical Director, PET/MR Translation Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Professor Jae Sung Lee, Ph.D., BK21 Four – Smart Healthcare, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Imaging Biomarkers
Professor Carolyn J. Anderson, Ph.D., Director of the Molecular Imaging and Theranostics Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
Professor André F. Martins, Ph.D., Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Assistant Professor Patrícia Pereira, Ph.D., Division of Radiological Sciences, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Assistant Professor Beatriz Salinas Rodríguez, Ph.D., Biomedical Imaging and Instrumentation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Professor Adam Shuhendler, Ph.D., Scientist at the University of Ottowa Heart Institute, University of Ottowa, Ottowa, Ontario, Canada
Imaging Immune, Cell and Gene Therapies
Dr. Vladimir Ponomarev, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Attending Imaging Scientist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Professor Caius G. Radu, M.D., Vice Chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Co-Director of the Cancer Molecular Imaging, Nanotechnology, and Theranostics Research Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Inflammation, Immunology, & Infection
Dr. Dima Hammoud, M.D., Senior Investigator and Deputy Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Imaging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Dr. Sanjay K. Jain, M.D., Director of the Center for Infection and Inflammation Imaging Research, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Assistant Professor Michelle James, Ph.D., Molecular Imaging Program, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
Intraoperative Imaging
Professor James P. Basilion, Ph.D., Director of the Case Center for Imaging Research, Leader of the Cancer Imaging Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Professor Guo-Jun Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, The Cancer Center, Xiang’an Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Metabolic Imaging
Dr. Pratip K. Bhattacharya, PhD; University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Professor Timothy Witney, Ph.D., Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Microscopy
Associate Professor Bettina Weigelin, Ph.D., Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
MRI Technologies
Professor Ichio Aoki, Ph.D., Senior Leader at the Institute for Quantum Medical Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan
Professor Guanshu Liu, Ph.D., F.M. Kirby Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Dr. Dario Livio Longo, Ph.D, Head of the Research Unit of Torino, Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging (IBB),
National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Torino, Italy
Professor Harish Poptani, Ph.D., Chair of the Centre for Preclinical Imaging, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Nanomaterials and Delivery Platforms
Professor Twan Lammers, Ph.D., Chair of Experimental Molecular Imaging, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Associate Professor Naomi Matsuura, Ph.D., Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada,
Neurology
Professor Emeritus Doris Doudet, Ph.D., Departments of Medicine and Neurology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Associate Professor Kristina Herfert, Ph.D, Werner Siemens Imaging Center, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Dr. Lisa Wells, Ph.D., Head of CNS Discovery Applications, Invicro, London, United Kingdom
New Contrast Agents
Professor Alexei A. Bogdanov Jr., Ph.D., Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging Probes, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
Associate Professor Summer Gibbs, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America
New Targets
Professor Amnon Bar-Shir, Ph.D., Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Assistant Professor Ann-Marie Chacko, Ph.D., Leader of the Cancer ImmunoTherapy Imaging Programme, Head of the Laboratory for Translational and Molecular Imaging, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
Professor Kimberly A. Kelly, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virgina, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Assistant Professor, Sanhita Sinharay, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Associate Professor Nerissa Viola, Ph.D., Molecular Imaging Program Leader at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
Professor Anna M. Wu, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Immunology and Theranostics, Co-Director of the Center for Theranostic Studies, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, California, United States of America
Optical and Optoacoustic Technologies
Dr. Hailong He, Ph.D., Group leader at Chair of Biological Imaging, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Assistant Professor Suzanne Kossatz, Ph.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Radiochemistry
Associate Professor Jason P. Holland, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Assistant Professor Federica Pisaneschi, Ph.D., Center for Translational Cancer Research, Institute of Molecular Medicine, UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX, United States of America
Associate Professor Mirkka Saraparanta, Ph.D., Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Professor Brian M. Zeglis, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America
Radiomics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Professor Ronald Boellaard, Ph.D., Head of the Imaging Methodology Section in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Professor Irène Buvat, Ph.D., Research Director of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Director of the Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology, Institut Curie, Orsay, France
Dr. Jayasree Chakraborty, Ph.D., Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America
Dr. Fanny Orlhac, PhD, Researcher of the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, Laboratory of Translational Imaging in Oncology, Institut Curie, Orsay, France
Dr. Floris H.P. van Velden, Ph.D., Head of the Medical Technology Radiology Group in the Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Ultrasound Technologies
Associate Professor Richard R. Bouchard, Ph.D., Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Associate Professor Charles F. Caskey, Ph.D., Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America