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Interview Manfred Kneilling
Manfred Kneilling from the University of Tübingen is leading work package 4 of the Immune-Image project together with Bastian Zinnhardt from Roche. In this work package they evaluate the specificity and suitability of new immunotracers targeting different immune cells...
Meet the patient: Tom van der Wal
We interviewed Tom van der Wal from The Netherlands about his experiences with immunotherapy. Tom has Multiple Myeloma (Kahler) and was diagnosed in 2016, treated in VUmc Amsterdam, and was in remission in 2017. Unfortunately, the Multiple Myeloma returned in 2021. We...
Meet the partner: University of Cambridge
Kevin Brindle is Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Senior Group Leader in the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. The current focus of his work is to develop novel imaging methods to...
Immune-Image present at the European Molecular Imaging Meeting in Thessaloniki
On Thursday the 17th of March Immune-Image hosted a session at the 17th European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM) in Thessaloniki. The session focused on Immuno-Therapy Imaging and was a great success. About the Immuno-Therapy Imaging focus session The focus...
Workshop Immuno-Imaging and Molecular Therapy
From 25th until the 29th of April the Medical Imaging Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium organizes a workshop, with support from the EU-funded Immune-Image consortium. The workshop ‘Immuno-Imaging and Molecular Therapy’ aims to bring...
Meet the person behind the researcher: Claudia Foray
Claudia Foray is a researcher for the Immune-Image project and is involved in the project because of the focus of her PhD project. In her research she tries to understand therapy-induced modification of the tumor microenvironment in glioma models using molecular...
Meet the partner: Lygature
Within Immune-Image, Lygature co-leads the data management work package, WP2, taking overall responsibility for the timely delivery of the deliverables and milestones in the various subtasks and the creation and execution of the data management plan. It is Lygature's...
Patient interview: Seamus Cotter
We interviewed Seamus Cotter from Ireland about his experiences with immunotherapy. Seamus has stage IV NSCLC lung cancer, was diagnosed in June 2016, and is now in remission. We asked him how he found out about immunotherapy, which treatment he received, and what his...
Interview Conny van der Laken
Conny van der Laken is a rheumatologist and a principal investigator of advanced imaging studies in rheumatology at the University of Amsterdam. Within the Immune-Image project, she is leader of Task 6.5, in a work package linked to patient research. Her research...
Immune-Image 2nd annual meeting 27, 28, 29 September
Two years after the start date of the Immune Image project its second annual meeting will be held. The Immune-Image consortium consists of 22 partner institutes and over 125 scientists key players from across 9 countries. Collectively they bring extensive expertise,...
”Imaging a particular immune cell subpopulation, that is the holy grail”
Professor Nick Devoogdt is, together with Wouter Driessen of Roche, leader of work package 3 of the Immune-Image project. In this work package their team develops new immunotracers for cancer and inflammatory diseases by imaging specific immune cells. We interviewed...
”Within Immune-Image we actually want to deliver new immunotracers to the patients”
Natascha Stergiou is a researcher (postdoc) for the Immune-Image project in work package 3 and is developing a universal and inert labeling protocol for immune cells which will be used in cancer therapy. The unique strategy in this project is to radiolabel the immune...
Meet our partner: Kevin Maresca from Pfizer
Kevin Maresca works in Early Clinical Development within Pfizer’s Worldwide Research, Development and Medical (WRDM) organization. He is head of PET/Molecular Imaging within the Digital Medicine and Translational Imaging group. We talked with Kevin about the role of...
The official launch of the Sustainability and Knowledge Transfer Team (SKTT)
We are proud to announce the official launch of the Sustainability and Knowledge Transfer Team (SKTT) as part of the Immune-Image consortium! The SKTT will be responsible for the sustainability and business development activities of the consortium such as business...
Quentin Lecocq: “When I found out my research was a success; I was in awe”
Quentin Lecocq is 27 years old and is currently doing his PhD in the Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Therapies in collaboration with the In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging lab runned by Professor Karine Breckpot and Professor Nick Devoogdt respectively. Nick...
Registration is open for the online workshop ‘Immuno-Imaging and Molecular Therapy’
From 19th until the 23rd of April the Medical Imaging Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium organizes a workshop, with support from the EU-funded Immune-Image consortium. The workshop ‘Immuno-Imaging and Molecular Therapy’ aims to bring...
Meet our ambassadors!
We would like to introduce you to the brand ambassadors of the Immune-Image project: Prof. Dr. Geert Raes and Dr. Fiona McDonald. The goal of the brand ambassadors is to share their insights on relevant and interesting content for the partners of the consortium as...
Klevisa Ceka from ECPC: “We are very glad to be part of this international consortium and are looking forward to see the great and promising results.”
Can you tell us a little bit about the history, goals and strategy of ECPC? ''Since 2013 The European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) is the voice of cancer patients in Europe. With over 400 members, ECPC is Europe’s largest umbrella cancer patients’ association,...
Video Immune Image
In this animation video the purpose of the Immune-Image project is being explained in a simple and understandable way. What is this five-year project about? What are the objectives? And how will these be achieved? Have a look and find out! микрозайм без проверок на...
Interview with Prof. Bert Windhorst about the first year of Immune-Image
Prof. Bert Windhorst (Amsterdam UMC) is the project coordinator of the Immune-Image project. He plays a central role in driving the project and chairs workpackage 1 together with Jason Hannon (Roche). The focus is on management, coordination, dissemination and...
This project has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 831514. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA.
