Collaborators & Research Support
Our 3 missions:
- Pursue research that is innovative, rigorous, and implementable, that leads to improved patient care and quality of life (impactful research)
- Cultivate active collaboration with researchers, clinicians, and healthcare stakeholders across the globe, to create opportunities for growth and learning, and to help define the future of molecular imaging & therapy (collaborative & educational practice)
- Provide a training and mentoring environment where members of the team continuously uncover new possibilities within themselves, and grow into the next generation of experts and contributors to their communities (active mentorship)
Our research emphasizes four dimensions: 1) Innovation; 2) Communication; 3) Collaboration; 4) Translation.
Our core values are: 1) Passion; 2) Trust; 3) Teamwork; 4) Responsibility; 5) Service; 6) Openness; 7) Growth; 8) Achievement
We pursue interdisciplinary research towards enhanced quantitative nuclear medicine (radiomolecular) imaging (PET & SPECT). Coupled with our provincial molecular imaging and therapy program, we emphasize partnerships with other collaborators, clinical sites and industry, aiming to translate our techniques to state-of-the-art patient care. Our efforts include:
- Quantitative PET/CT imaging methods for enhanced diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response assessment of cancer patients
- Quantitative SPECT-based imaging and dosimetry in radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs)
- AI and Radiomics methods as applied to PET and SPECT imaging for improved assessment of cancer, including physician-in-the-loop and agentic AI solutions
- Computational Nuclear Oncology (CNO) and Virtual Theranostic Trials (VTTs) for optimization of theranostic imaging and RPTs
- Building of theranostic digital twins (TDTs) towards precision RPTs
- Anthropomorphic digital and physical phantom studies for optimization of clinical PET & SPECT imaging protocols
- Advanced statistical image reconstruction and parametric image generation algorithms
- And more!