FAPI featured in accolades at annual Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) meeting
Congratulations to investigators at Hannover School of Medicine and Heidelberg University Hospital for receiving the 2022 SNMMI Image of the Year Award and JNM Editors’ Choice Award for Overall Best Article in 2021, respectively. Both use FAPI as the primary indicator and further underscore its potential impact as a novel radiopharmaceutical.
Each year, SNMMI chooses an image that best exemplifies the most promising advances in the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. This year, the honor went to researchers at Hannover School of Medicine who demonstrated that 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET, when correlated with cardiac MRI, is a new specific indicator of active fibrosis and can identify a patient’s chance of recovery following a heart attack. The depiction of 68Ga-FAPI-46 PET signal after acute anterior myocardial infarction was selected as SNMMI’s 2022 Image of the Year.