Department of Nuclear Medicine

Inselspital Bern

The Department is one of the largest and most advanced nuclear medicine departments in Switzerland. It offers the entire spectrum of modern nuclear medicine examination and treatment methods, with emphasis on diagnostics using state-of-the-art PET/CT and SPECT/CT hybrid scanners, as well as nuclear medicine therapy procedures.

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Profile

  • Research in clinical PET imaging with emphasis on total-body PET in the context of oncological, neurological, and cardiovascular diseases (early diagnosis, differential diagnosis).
  • Preclinical and GMP-related radiopharmacy, biomedical engineering, instrumentation, dosimetry, artificial intelligence, and preclinical PET imaging.
  • Further expand the therapeutic spectrum in Nuclear Medicine with the advent of novel radioligand therapies.
  • Teaching students in the fields of medicine, biomedical engineering, and radiochemistry. Education of NM technologists.

External Partners

Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Technical University Munich; Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich; Fudan University Shanghai, China; Institute of Nuclear Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; MGH AI Center, Harvard Medical School, USA; Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Dept. of Molecular Pharmacology, UCLA, USA; School of Medical Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China; Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; PET Center at UC Davis, USA; Dept. Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital; Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Grants

  • Swiss National Science Foundations (grant no. 200021_188914; IZKSW3_188350; 310030_192704; 200021E_216944 / 1)
  • Foundation for Clinical and Experimental Tumor Research
  • Eureka (Innosuisse) (4842)
  • SBFI (grant no. 101073231)
  • Parkinson Schweiz
  • Sinergia (CRSII-222763)