2024 NCI Synthetic Biology for Molecular Imaging in Cancer Workshop
Date: April 22-23, 2024
Location: Virtual attendance via WebEx
Registration Required
The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate information sharing and collaborations among scientists to match synthetic bioengineering design principles with imaging agent and tool development in cancer imaging.
Molecular imaging is an integral part of cancer research and patient care. Despite recent advances in imaging resolution and quality, the complex and dynamic nature of tumor evolution necessitates improved accuracy and precision in molecular targeted imaging to observe functional changes in a tumor and its microenvironment in real time. Synthetic biology is a design-driven discipline that centers on engineering biologics with expanded and enhanced properties to perform novel functions. Over the last decade, synthetic biology tools and principles have matured and reached increasingly higher levels of sophistication. The field is now beginning to bring new capabilities to molecular diagnostics, expanding the molecular detection palette and creating dynamic sensors to provide near real-time surveillance of pathological conditions.
The workshop will seek input from experts in the scientific community to assess the potential of synthetic biology methodologies in advancing molecular imaging for cancer research and clinical application. The overarching goal of the workshop is to identify new opportunities and key challenges, as well as to develop strategies to overcome the challenges.
Contact for Questions:
Charles Lin, Ph.D.
Cancer Imaging Program
DCTD/NCI/NIH
p....@nih.gov
If you are an individual with a disability who needs reasonable accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Elizabeth Pratt at least five business days before the event, so that we can discuss your accommodation request.
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