A youth forum was held during the 2021 National Conference on Molecular Imaging in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, on Dec 28, to encourage young scholars and promote the sustainable development of the field.

The forum was presided over by Zhang Ruiping, vice-president of Shanxi Bethune Hospital, and Huang Peng, a research fellow from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Eight young scholars reported on their research results.

Liu Yu, a PhD student from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at CAS, shares his studies on glioma treatment at the youth forum. [Photo/BSC Molecular Imaging Academic Subgroup]

Liu Yu, a PhD student from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at the CAS, shared his studies on the construction of drug preparation integrating diagnosis and treatment for glioma based on apoptotic bodies.

Sun Tuanwei, a PhD student from SZU, explains the application of molecular imaging technologies in acute renal injury treatment. [Photo/BSC Molecular Imaging Academic Subgroup]

Sun Tuanwei, a PhD student from Shenzhen University (SZU), explained the application of molecular imaging technologies in guiding the treatment of acute renal injury.

Wei Huiyi, a PhD student from the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, shares the development of a new PET probe. [Photo/BSC Molecular Imaging Academic Subgroup]

Wei Huiyi, a PhD student from the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, shared the research progress on the development of a new PET probe for PDE10A and its preclinical imaging.

Ma Huizhen, a PhD student from Tianjin University, gives a speech on atomic-precision clusters for NIR-II. [Photo/BSC Molecular Imaging Academic Subgroup]

Ma Huizhen, a PhD student from Tianjin University, delivered a speech entitled Construction of Atomic-precision Clusters for NIR-II and Tumor Evolution and Typing.

Liang Simin, a PhD student from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at CAS, talks about the opening of a blood-brain barrier. [Photo/BSC Molecular Imaging Academic Subgroup]

Liang Simin, a PhD student from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology at the CAS, elaborated on the opening of a blood-brain barrier induced by the NIR-II fluorescence imaging visualization of dynamic ultrasound.

Lei Shan, a PhD student from SZU, introduced the research results of optical diagnosis and treatment of cancer guided by molecular imaging.

Xiao Yitai, a PhD student from the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yet-sen University, developed a nanobody-based PET imaging probe targeting CEACAM5, and showed the research results of the probe in the imaging of lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer.

Luo Chuangwei, a PhD student from Peking University, talked about the research results of radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy guided by nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.