CAI Symposium - nuclear medicine and radiochemistry

We are delighted to announce the Annual CAI Symposium which will be held on Monday 16 May at The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus. Registration is now closed for this event. 

Confirmed speakers:

Plenary: Prof Rachel Codd (University of Sydney)  "Exploiting Chemical Biology to Expand the Chemical Space of Radiometal Chelators"
Keynote: Dr Christian Wichmann (Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute) "Advances in ⁸⁹Zr- and ²²⁵Ac-based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic
and therapeutic purposes"

In addition to keynote speakers, the following Postdocs and HDR students will be presenting their research:

Salma Ahmed "Design and evaluation of degradable, pH-sensitive camptothecin-loaded polymersomes from RAFT-based diblock polymers"
Nick Fletcher "Engineering a PSMA-targeted antibody for accelerated clearance while maintaining tumour accumulation for targeted radiotherapy"
Saikat Ghosh "Novel antibody theranostics for Glypican-1 over-expressing solid tumors"
Melyssa Grieve (Monash) "A versatile bis(thiosemicarbazone) macrocyclic chelator for use in radiopharmaceuticals"
James Humphries "Understanding acquired immunity to polymer nanomedicines - management strategies and potential benefits"
Ting Xiang Lim "Novel Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor PET Imaging Agents for Glioma"
Biswa Mishra "The isolated chicken ASIC1a thumb domain (ATD-c1a) retains the structure and ligand binding properties of the full length ASIC1a"
Vanessa Soh "New 64Cu-labeled CXCR4-targeting ligands for theranostic applications"
Jessica Van Zuylekom (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) "Modeling resistance to PRRT in NET"
Rajat Vashistha "PET arterial input function estimation using machine learning"

   Download the CAI symposium program for a full list of abstracts.

Symposium schedule

8:30   -   9:00    Registration                                         AIBN Seminar Room
9:00   - 10:00    Plenary - Prof Rachel Codd              AIBN Seminar Room
10:00 - 10:40    Morning tea                                        Level 2 CAI
10:40 - 12:00    HDR & Postdoc talks                         AIBN Seminar Room
12:00 -   1:30    Lunch & Posters                                 Level 5 CAI
  1:30 -   2:00    Keynote - Dr Christian Wichmann   AIBN Seminar Room                    
  2:00 -   3:00    HDR & Postdoc talks                         AIBN Seminar Room
  3:00 -   3:30    Afternoon tea                                      Level 2 CAI
  3:30 -   4:30    HDR & Postdoc talks                         AIBN Seminar Room
  4:30 -   6:30    Posters, prizes & pizza                      Level 5 CAI