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Molecular Medical Imaging

24
Publications
70.83
%Q1
120
Number of citations
38.98
% Open Access Publications
31
Ongoing Projects
1
Number of Presented Theses
5
Number of Active Clinical Trials
During 2024, our group has been working in different competitive and non-competitive projects on AI using big data for building up digital twins for MASLD, anonymization processes and generation of synthetic data, the development of new radiopharmaceuticals (diagnosis, therapy and theragnosis), and the study of metabolic diseases, cancer, cardiology and infectious diseases. Also in several innovation and MedTech projects, as the Frontwave Imaging spin off. Highlights:
  • Set up of new radiopharmaceuticals for assessing immunological checkpoint inhibitors in cancer and for glioblastoma, neuroblastoma as well as in vivo cell tracking of NK and M1 cells for drug development in colitis and cancer
  • Networks focused in imaging and tech transfer (Diamond, X4HPC)
  • 6 EU projects (two of them as WP leaders)
  • Several studies on imaging
  • Assessing new radiopharmaceuticals to transfer them to clinics in oncology
  • Unravelled different organ-specific insulin-resistance phenotypes in type 2 diabetes

eCORE

  • Advanced Therapies and Advanced Interventions, Nanomedicine, Transplant & Donation
  • Chronic, Prevalent Diseases & Aging
  • Personalized Medicine, Innovative Diagnostics, Molecular Imaging & Digital Health

Team

Group Leader
José Raul Herance Camacho

Principal Investigator (PI)
Santiago Aguade Bruix, Xavier Serres Créixams, Ana Maria Rodriguez Arana, Julia Baguña Torres. Manuel Escobar Amores

Researchers
Cristina Gámez Cenzano, Maria Nazarena Pizzi, Cuellar Calabria, Hug, Roque Pérez, Albert, Diego A Villasboas Rosciolesi, Joan Castell Conesa, Marc Simó Perdigó, Carles Lorenzo Bosquet, Gemma Cuberas Borros, Juan Pablo Salazar Gutierrez, Gemma Burcet Rodríguez, Fiorella Dellepiane Clarke, Ignacio Navales Mateu, Mª Jose Moreno Negreie, Mº Teresa Veintemillas Araiz, Daniel Eiroa Gutierrez, Mònica Velasco Nuño, Erique Franky, Eser Ucar, Martha Sahyli Ortega Pijeira, Esperanza Medina Gutiérrez, Nuria Roson Gradaille, Jorge Guillermo Romero Farina, Maria Boronat Ferrater, Marta Barios Profitos, Amparo García Burillo, Almudena Maceda Garcia

PhD Students
Mª Àngels Hernández Fructuoso, Beatriz Santos Montero, Marina Llenas Martinez, Clara Ramirez Serra, Carina Espinet Coll, Queralt Martin Saladich, Álvaro Valverde Moya, Carolina Aparicio Gómez, Carmen Gloria Franco Monterroso, Emily Betancourt, Sofia Rodríguez, Nuria Rosón

Lab Technicians
Irati Caballero Bermejo, Itziar Busquets Sáez

Nursing and Technical Staff
Eduard Albuixech Ginesta, Maria Eva Castillo Martinez, Inés Carolina Balón Llerena, Joan Barbeta Sanchez, Miguel Descalzo Pérez, Lluís Gabalda Martínez, Héctor García Fernández, Mireia Iniesta Ambrós, Julio Linares Molina, Mª Carmen López Arribas, Sergio López Gandu, Carmen Sanchez Suarez

Selected Publications

Queralt Martín-Saladich , Juan M Pericàs, Andreea Ciudin, Clara Ramirez-Serra, Manuel Escobar, Jesús Rivera-Esteban, Santiago Aguadé-Bruix , Miguel A González Ballester, José Raul Herance
Metabolic-associated fatty liver voxel-based quantification on CT images using a contrast adapted automatic tool
Med Image Anal. 2024 Jul:95:103185
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2024.103185.
IF: 10.7

DISCHARGE Trial Group; Bosserdt M, Serna-Higuita LM, Feuchtner G, Merkely B, Kofoed KF, Benedek T, Donnelly P, Rodriguez-Palomares J, Erglis A, Štechovský C, Šakalyte G, Adic NC, Gutberlet M, Dodd JD, Diez I, Davis G, Zimmermann E, Kepka C, Vidakovic R, Francone M, Ilnicka-Suckiel M, Plank F, Knuuti J, Faria R, Schröder S, Berry C, Saba L, Ruzsics B, Rieckmann N, Kubiak C, Hansen KS, Müller-Nordhorn J, Szilveszter B, Sigvardsen PE, Benedek I, Orr C, Valente FX, Zvaigzne L, Suchánek V, Jankauskas A, Adic F, Woinke M, Hensey M, Lecumberri I, Thwaite E, Laule M, Kruk M, Neskovic AN, Mancone M, Kusmierz D, Pietilä M, Ribeiro VG, Drosch T, Delles C, Porcu M, Fisher M, Boussoussou M, Kragelund C, Aurelian R, Kelly S, Garcia Del Blanco B, Rubio A, Maurovich-Horvat P, Hove JD, Rodean I, Regan S, Cuellar-Calabria H, Molnár L, Larsen L, Hodas R, Napp AE, Haase R, Feger S, Mohamed M, Neumann K, Dreger H, Rief M, Wieske V, Estrella M, Martus P, Sox HC, Dewey M.
Age and Computed Tomography and Invasive Coronary Angiography in Stable Chest Pain: A Prespecified Secondary Analysis of the DISCHARGE Randomized Clinical Trial
JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Apr 1;9(4):346-356.
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2024.0001
IF: 14.8

Simron Singh , Daniel Halperin , Sten Myrehaug , Ken Herrmann , Marianne Pavel , Pamela L Kunz , Beth Chasen , Salvatore Tafuto , Secondo Lastoria , Jaume Capdevila, Amparo García-Burillo, Do-Youn Oh, Changhoon Yoo, Thorvardur R Halfdanarson, Stephen Falk, Ilya Folitar, Yufen Zhang, Paola Aimone , Wouter W de Herder, Diego Ferone; all the NETTER-2 Trial Investigators
[177Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE plus long-acting octreotide versus high‑dose long-acting octreotide for the treatment of newly diagnosed, advanced grade 2-3, well-differentiated, gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (NETTER-2): an open-label, randomised, phase 3 study
Lancet. 2024 Jun 29;403(10446):2807-2817
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00701-3
IF: 98.4

Mishal Mendiratta-Lala, Philipp Wiggermann 1, Maciej Pech 1, Xavier Serres-Créixams 1, Sarah B White 1, Clifford Davis 1, Osman Ahmed 1, Neehar D Parikh 1, Mathis Planert 1, Maximilian Thormann 1, Zhen Xu 1, Zachary Collins 1, Govindarajan Narayanan 1, Guido Torzilli 1, Clifford Cho 1, Peter Littler 1, Tze Min Wah 1, Luigi Solbiati # 1, Timothy J Ziemlewicz # 1
The #HOPE4LIVER Single-Arm Pivotal Trial for Histotripsy of Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors
Radiology. 2024 Sep;312(3):e233051
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.233051
IF: 19.7

Olivia Prior, Carlos Macarro, Víctor Navarro, Camilo Monreal, Marta Ligero, Alonso Garcia-Ruiz, Garazi Serna, Sara Simonetti, Irene Braña, Maria Vieito, Manuel Escobar, Jaume Capdevila, Annette T Byrne, Rodrigo Dienstmann, Rodrigo Toledo, Paolo Nuciforo, Elena Garralda, Francesco Grussu, Kinga Bernatowicz , Raquel Perez-Lopez
Identification of Precise 3D CT Radiomics for Habitat Computation by Machine Learning in Cancer
Radiol Artif Intell. 2024 Mar;6(2):e230118
DOI: 10.1148/ryai.230118
IF: 8.1

Selected Projects

Immune-Image: Specific Imaging of Immune Cell Dynamics Using Novel Tracer Strategies
Principal Investigator: J Raul Herance
Agency: EU-IMI2
Funding: 514,560 €
Period: 01/10/2019 - 31/03/2026

Insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes: unraveling the pathogenic mechanism between organs
Principal Investigator: J Raul Herance
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 159,720 €
Period: 01/01/2021 - 30/06/2025

Early molecular nanoDIAGnostics of Brain tumors using Immune-PET (DIAGBI)
Principal Investigator: J Raul Herance
Agency: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-MICINN
Funding: 216,102 €
Period: 01/10/2021 - 30/10/2025

ARTEMIs: AcceleRating the Translation of virtual twins towards a pErsonalised Management of fatty lIver patients
Principal Investigator: J Raul Herance
Agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 724,000 €
Period: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2027

Synthetic Data Generation Framework for Integrated Validation of Use Cases and AI Healthcare Applications
Principal Investigator: Manel Escobar
Agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 163,125 €
Period: 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2029

VHIR Annual Report 2024