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The CASNMMI annual meeting took place at Hilton Garden Inn New Orleans Convention Center June 22, 2025, during the SNMMI 2025 Annual Meeting.

Lifetime Achievement Awards (LTAA)  

Congratulations to Dr. Wai-Hoi Wong receiving 2025 CASNMMI Lifetime Achievement Award!!!
Dr. Wong, born in Hong Kong, has devoted his professional career to the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. He is one of the early generations of nuclear physicals professionals in United States, the well-known nuclear medicine expert.

1979: Ph D. from University of Wisconsin - Madison, Studied in Experimental Nuclear Physics focusing on Accelerator Engineering, Nuclear Reaction Synthesis Coincidence Detection and Gamma-Ray Time-of-Flight Instrumentation

1980: His first job was as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston in a new start-up group for developing the first clinically functional Time-Of-Flight PET camera.

1987: Became an Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Houston. Led the development of the earliest commercial PET systems. The earliest two customers were NIH and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

1990: Was appointed as Professor and the Scientific Director of the PET Center in MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he established a premiere PET Instrumentation Development Lab, in designing and engineering lower-cost and ultrahigh resolution PET.

2005: His lab developed the world's first small animal PET-CT. This was a low-cost animal PET-CT achieving the world's highest PET resolution of 1 mm.

2013: His team developed China's first commercial clinical PET-CT achieving the highest clinical PET resolution of 1.5 mm, with the support of the Shanghai United Imaging Corporation. All his lab's technology/patents were subsequently licensed to the Shanghai United Imaging Corporation.

2017: After 40 years in PET development, Dr. Wong happily retired from the MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Congratulations to all Young Investigator Award (YIA) winners!

1^st Prize: He Zhang, Department of Radiology, Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA. Engineering a Novel Multi-arm Vinyl Sulfone Functionalized Core for Theranostic Applications.

2^nd Prize: Hao Fu, Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, China. Trop2-Targeted PET/CT with ⁶⁸Ga-MY6349 for Detecting Metastatic Lesions in Recurrent/Metastatic Thyroid Cancer: Prospective Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy with ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT.

2^nd Prize: Wenhui Fu, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL USA. Radiotheranostics Targeting the Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Receptor: Radiosynthesis and Preclinical Evaluation in Mouse Models of Advanced Thyroid Cancer.

3^rd Prize: Qiong Liu, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA. Effect of Six-Month Tafamidis Treatment on Dynamic ¹⁸F-Flutemetamol PET in ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis.

3^rd Prize: Zhenni Wei, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of a Novel Radiolabelled Anti-Caudin-18.2 Humanized VHH-Based Recombinant Antibody as Radioimmunotherapy Candidate for Gastric Cancer.

3^rd Prize: Jialin Xiang, Department of Nuclear Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Beijing, China. Preliminary Safety, Biodistribution, and Dosimetry in Peptide-targeted Radionuclide Therapy of Fibroblast activation protein and Integrin α_vβ₃ Positive Tumors with ¹⁷⁷Lu-DOTA-FAPI-RGD: First-in-Humans Results.

Farewell to Outgoing Board Directors & Welcome to New Board Directors!

We are truly grateful to outgoing CASNMMI directors Dr. Chun Li & Dr. Yubin Miao who have dedicated their significant time and energy to help chart and grow CASNMMI community-oriented organization. We also want to congratulate and welcome to the Board two new members, Yuitian Feng & Dr. Hui Xiong. We are grateful and excited to have Drs. Feng and Xiong join the board and bring their unique talents, expertise and perspectives to the work of the organization.

A heart full of gratitude to CASNMMI 2025 sponsorship!

Thank you for your generous sponsorship of CASNMMI 2025 annual. Your support and contribution were instrumental in making the event a success and helped us create a more impactful experience for the CASNMMI community!