| Wednesday, June 17th 2026 | | Opening Event, University House, Düsseldorf City |
| 18:30 – 19:15 | | Lecture for the general public (in German) |
| Ulrich Flögel (Düsseldorf, DE) | | Experimentelle Kardio-MRT – Über Pumpfunktion und Gefäßsystem hinaus |
| 19:15 – 21:00 | | Snacks and Drinks |
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| Thursday, June 18th 2026 | | Roy Lichtenstein Lecture Hall, Campus of the Heinrich Heine University |
| 08:30 – 09:15 | | Registration, Poster Mounting, and Coffee |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | | Opening and Welcome Address |
| Nikolaj Klöcker (Düsseldorf, DE) | | Dean of the Medical Faculty |
| Gerald Antoch (Düsseldorf, DE) | | Head of the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology |
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| Scientific Sessions | | |
| The duration of each session is 1.5 hours. Talks by invited speakers are allocated for 20 minutes + 5 minutes of discussion, which will be rounded out by Flash Talks, selected from the submitted abstracts. |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | | Session I: Focus on Technical Improvements |
| Fabian Kießing (Aachen, DE) | | MRI concepts to image bioresponsive tissue engineered systems |
| Cornelius Faber (Münster, DE) | | On the move: MRI single-cell tracking of immune cells in real time |
| Kilian Müller (Munich, DE) | | Fluorinated polymers for additive manufacturing of vascular grafts |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | | Session II: Advanced 19F Probes |
| Éva Tóth (Orléans, FR) | | Transition metal complexes in 19F MRI |
| Kazuya Kikuchi (Osaka, JP) | | Encapsulated 19F MRI probes with activatable chemical switches to enhance contrast |
| Pascal Bouvain (Düsseldorf, DE) | | Towards 19F-based theranostics |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | | Session III: Unveil the Hidden – Frontiers in Cardiovascular MRI |
| Daniel Stuckey (UCL, UK) | | Manganese enhanced MRI – lighting up the living heart |
| Min-Chi Ku (MDC, DE) | | Zooming into the heart: MRI mapping of microstructural and functional changes from man to mouse |
| Xiaowei Wang (Melbourne, AU) | | 19F MRI diagnostics of thrombosis and nanoemulsions for controlled release of mRNA agents |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | | Hands on Session: Vertical MRI |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | | Session IV: Outside the Box |
| Christian Bock (Bremerhaven, DE) | | Fishing for MR signals – Insights from the exploration of the sea |
| Anton Windfelder (Gießen, DE) | | Advanced MRI identifies conserved features of gut inflammation ininsects |
| Vera Flocke (Düsseldorf, DE) | | Monitorng dynamic features during metamorphosis of Saturnia Pavonia |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | | Poster Session, Snacks and Drinks |
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| Friday, June 19th 2026 | | Roy Lichtenstein Lecture Hall, Heinrich Heine University |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | | Session V: X Nuclei – Making Molecular Processes Visible |
| Andreas Korzowski (Heidelberg, DE) | | Hyperpolarized MRI – Promises & pitfalls |
| Emily Que (Austin, US) | | Visualizing redox processes by 19F MRI probes |
| Samia Maouhoub (Dortmund, DE) | | Deuterium metabolic imaging of the bone marrow |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | | Session VI: Progress in Imaging of Inflammation and Infection |
| Greetje Vande Velde (Leuven, BE) | | Multimodal imaging of infectious diseases |
| Iris Zhou (Harvard, US) | | Lighting up neuroinflammation: Redox MRI in models of Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and beyond |
| Alkystis Phinikaridou (KCL, UK) | | Molecular imaging of inflammatory processes in cardiovascular disease |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | | Session VII: Pushing the Boundaries of Cancer Imaging |
| Jeff Bulte (Johns Hopkins, US) | | Imaging aggressive brain cancer stem cells by CEST MRI |
| Amnon Bar-Shir (Weizmann, IL) | | Introducing fluorine metabolic imaging (FMI) for multiplexed in vivo mapping of metabolic pathways in cancer |
| Fanny Chapelin (San Diego, US) | | 19F MRI of macrophage response to immunotherapy and antibody drug conjugates |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | | Session VIII: New Perspectives – What is on the Horizon? |
| Francesa Garello (Turin, IT) | | 19F CEST study of solution structures and dynamics in diamagnetic ternary complexes |
| Daniel Jirák (Prague, CZ) | | Non-metallic contrast agents for MRI |
| Jesús Ruiz-Cabello (Donostia, ES) | | Multi-functional and water-soluble fluorinated nanoparticles in 19F MRI: New strategies and prospects |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | | Meeting adjourns |
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