EUR 900 million for German molecular imaging research

The German Federal Ministry has taken an initiative to fund immensely to the flourishing field of molecular imaging research. This is clearly a funding of magnanimous proportions when compared to the recent grant support for molecular imaging from SNM in North America. Click below for the detailed news.
EUR 900 million for German molecular imaging research

Gamma Medica-Ideas Announces Sale of Two Pre-clinical Imaging Systems to Switzerland’s Centre d’Imagerie Biomédicale

The pre-clinical imaging is being expanded across Europe. The Institutes involved in imaging research in Switzerland under an umbrella of Centre d’Imagerie Biomédicale (CIBM) has bought two pre-clinical imaging systems from Gamma Medica -Ideas - FLEX Triumph™ imaging platform that combines PET, SPECT and CT installed at the Nuclear Medicine Department of the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG); and a LabPET™ system installed at École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne (EPFL). Click here for more.

New Molecular Imaging Center at INMAS, India

It appears that Moelcular Imaging is rapidly burgeoning in India. In less than a month after opening a Molecular Imaging center at Chennai, and less than 4 months after the one in Bangalore, a new center at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS) in the capital city of New Delhi has been set up. This clearly is a big news as it comes from the support of government unlike the earlier centers which largely was the effect of private players. Look at this PIB Press Release

India, US to cooperate in developing medical technology

Nice to know that DBT of India has partenered with NIBIB of NIH, USA to push the frontiers in medical technology in India. "The focus will be on infectious diseases, trauma, maternal and child health and chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases," Roderic Pettigrew, Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering quoted during the agreement. According to the report, the Ministry of Science and Technology is setting up the country's first-ever Translational Health Science and Technology Institute to facilitate development, optimisation and evaluation of technologies for public health. I wonder when and where will that Institute be set up. Click here for more.