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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