PhD student Riikka Viitanen has received the Alavi-Mandell Award

A member of our group has received an award!

Riikka Viitanen, a PhD student at Turku PET Centre and Drug Research Doctoral Programme of University of Turku Graduate School, has been awarded the annual Alavi-Mandell Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for her publication in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. She is the first author of paper entitled with “68Ga-DOTA-E[c(RGDfK)]Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of SHARPIN-Regulated Integrin Activity in Mice”.

 

http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/60/10/1380.long

Alavi-Mandell Award is given to individuals who were the first author of a paper published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine that were trainees at the time the published work was carried out and made a major contribution to the completion of the work. The Alavi-Mandell Award aims to encourage the young scientists to pursue a career in academic and research in nuclear medicine.