We extend our warmest congratulations to Giacomo Gariglio, who defended his thesis “Preclinical Development of Novel Chelator-Based Probes for Molecular Imaging of Cancer” on April 9th as part of the doctoral programme Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy (IGDT) of the PhD School of Biomedical Sciences of the Medical University Innsbruck.
Giacomo’s research was focused on radiopharmaceutical development of targeted probes for PET imaging and image guided surgery and was performed in the radiopharmaceutical research team at the University Hospital for Nuclear Medicine under the supervision of Univ.Doz.Dr.Clemens Decristoforo, co-supervised by Priv.Doz.Dr. Daniel Putzer.
The IGDT- faculty is delighted to congratulate Giacomo on completion of his PhD studies! The project was funded by the Medical University of Innsbruck as part of the PhD programme “IGDT-ART – integrating multimodal strategies for clinical research” (FWF DOC 110 doc.funds; grant DOI 10.55776/DOC110)
GRADUATES
The newly designed, internationally oriented DocFunds programme “image guided diagnosis and therapy (IGDT) – integrating multimodal strategies for clinical research” qualifies young scientists with both medical and basic science background in the highly interdisciplinary and rapidly evolving field of digital medical imaging and image guided therapies. The multi- and interdisciplinary research programme integrates innovative aspects in applied mathematics, biomedical physics, computer science, clinical imaging and therapy. The programme combines training in basic science, translational and clinical science. The already existing PhD programme (Image-guided Diagnosis and Therapy (i-med.ac.at) provides a solid basis for the new programme.
The planned PhD projects are designed to improve image guided diagnosis and therapies and, therefore, patient care. The curriculum offers lectures and courses in basic and medical sciences in order to improve the mutual understanding of medical and basic scientists. Each PhD student is, therefore, supervised by a medical and a basic scientist. Scientists with a background in medical and basic sciences are in high demand, because innovative imaging and interventional procedures are increasingly important. This programme supports the education of next-generation scientists with excellent career opportunities in science, patient care and industry.
It is a joint initiative of the Medical University Innsbruck (MUI), the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (LFUI) and until summer 2024 the „Private Universität für Medizinische Informatik und Technik“ (UMIT).
Coordinator: Elke R. Gizewski (University Hospital of Radiology – Wissenschaft – Forschung (tirol-kliniken.at)) Deputy Coordinator: Clemens Decristoforo (Clemens Decristoforo (i-med.ac.at))
Partners:
until summer 2024 UMIT was one of our partners
