STARTING SOON: Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 4:00PM, ICTP Colloquium by S.M. Qaim

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Dear All,

You are most cordially invited to the *ICTP Colloquium "Development of 
Novel Radionuclides for New Emerging Medical Applications"* by* Syed M. 
Qaim *from the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM), Germany.

The Colloquium will take place on *Wednesday 4 November 2026 in the 
Budinich Lecture Hall at ICTP at 4:00PM** CET. * Light refreshments will 
be served at end of the event in the Leonardo Building entrance hall.

The production technology of reactor- and cyclotron-based radionuclides, 
routinely used in patient care, encompassing about 60 million cases 
worldwide per year, is generally well established. However, to meet 
demands of some new emerging medical applications, such as bimodal 
imaging, theranostic approach or radioimmunotherapy, novel radionuclides 
with versatile labelling chemistry are needed. In great demand are 
presently longer-lived non-standard positron emitters for diagnosis and 
low-energy highly-ionising β-- and α-particle emitters for therapy 
Special interest lies presently in the radionuclide targeted therapy. 
This talk gives an overview of new research trends in production of 
novel medical radionuclides. The relevant areas of investigation include 
nuclear data, high current irradiation technology, chemical processing 
and quality assurance of the radioactive product. A few examples from 
each area will be given, based on the use of the following existing and 
emerging technical facilities.

_About the speaker_
Syed Muhammad Qaim is a retired Professor at the Forschungszentrum 
Jülich, Germany. He has been engaged in nuclear research for more than 
60 years, working in the areas of fundamental nuclear chemistry, nuclear 
data for applications and medical radionuclides. He has published more 
than 430 papers, written several books  and has given invited talks at 
more than 100 international conferences. Besides his normal research and 
teaching duties, he has been actively engaged in the propagation of 
science through his long associations with the international bodies 
OECD-NEA (Paris), IAEA (Vienna) and  ICTP (Trieste). He has also 
contributed appreciably  to the development of science in the Third 
World Countries. For his sustained seminal contributions he received 
various types of awards and honours  in about 10 countries of the world.

The event will be livetreamed at:
http://ictp.it/livestream

For info, please check the following link: 
https://indico.ictp.it/event/11554/

Looking forward to your participation.

With best regards,

Director's Office, ICTP
www.ictp.it

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