Preliminary Program
 
 
 
 
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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