Name: CoViD-19: Inflammation and Molecular Imaging
Start: 2021-05-20T14:15:00+02:00
End: 2021-05-23T22:01:00+02:00
Location: Remote

CoViD-19: Inflammation and Molecular Imaging

from Thursday, 20 May 2021 (14:15) to Sunday, 23 May 2021 (22:01)

Monday, 17 May 2021
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Thursday, 20 May 2021
15:00
15:00 - 18:00
Contributions

15:00 Opening - Welcome Speeches - Franco Garibaldi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:20 COVID-19 in 2021: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges - Anthony S. Fauci (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/USA)

15:40 Origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - Elisa Vicenzi (San Raffaele – Milano)

16:00 Vaccines and monoclonals to regain our freedom - Rino Rappuoli (GSK Vaccines and MAD Lab (TLS))

16:45 COVID-19: A System disease - Alessandra Bandera (University of Milan)

17:05 Immunology - Maria Rescigno (University of Humanitas)

17:25 Mathematics and data science of Covid - Giorgio Parisi (President Accademia dei Lincei)
18:00
18:00 - 19:15
Contributions

18:00 Multimodal X-ray Imaging with Darkfield Contrast: Improved COVID-19 Detection with Chest X-rays - Franz Pfeiffer (Technical University Munich)

18:20 Medium effects of COVID-19 on multi-system health focusing on the potential role of inflammation - Betty Raman (Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, Oxford)

18:40 Rapid diagnosis of patients with COVID-19 by Artificial Intelligence - Yang Yang (Radiology – Mount Sinai, NY/USA)
Friday, 21 May 2021
15:00 Present Status
Present Status
15:00 - 17:05
Contributions

15:00 Understanding the radiation risks associated with molecular imaging - Michael K. O'Connor (Mayo Clinic, Section of Nuclear Medicine, Rochester)

15:20 Role of 2-[18F]FDG as a Radiopharmaceutical for PET/CT in patients with COVID-19 - Arturo Chiti (Humanitas University – Milan – Italy)

15:40 What molecular imaging of cancer patients can teach us about COVID-19 - Silvana Del Vecchio (Nuclear Medicine, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University Federico II)

16:15 18F-FDG brain PET hypometabolism in post-SARS-CoV-2 infection: substrate for persistent/delayed disorders? - E. Guedj (Nuclear Medicine, Univ. Marseille)

16:35 The role for dynamic imaging - Irène Buvat (Curie Institute – Orsay)
17:05 Molecular Imaging
Molecular Imaging
17:05 - 18:20
Contributions

17:05 The case for the Total Body PET imaging of CD8+ T Cells for researching COVID-19 - Terry Jones (University of California Davis)

17:25 Imaging Immune phenomena - Martin Pomper (Johns Hopkins – Baltimore)

17:45 Potential Role of Conventional and Total Body PET Imaging in Assessing Systemic Complications of COVID Infection - Abass Alavi (Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)
18:20
18:20 - 19:35
Contributions

18:20 The potential role of AI in NM imaging - Dimitris Visvikis (INSERM)

18:40 The potential of the EuPRAXIA photon beams for CoViD-19 research - Francesco Stellato (ROMA2)

19:00 Zn-induced interactions between SARS-CoV-2 orf7a and BST2/tetherin - Silvia Morante (ROMA2)
Saturday, 22 May 2021
15:00 Molecular Imaging
Molecular Imaging
15:00 - 17:30
Contributions

15:00 Advances in PET/CT imaging with Biograph Vision and Quadra - Maurizio Conti (Siemens – Healthineers Molecular Imaging)

15:20 On the way to the 10 ps TOF-PET challenge - Paul Lecoq (CERN)

15:40 Total body - PET imaging from the top of the head to the toes? - Terry Jones (University of California Davis)

16:15 Clinical applications of Total Body PET - Hongcheng Shi (Nuclear Medicine Fudan University)

16:35 Alternative applications of Total Body PET - Stefaan Vandenberghe (MEDISIP-IBBT-Ugent)

16:55 PET/Compton Hybrid as the Imager of the next generation - Gabriela Llosa (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC/CSIC-UVEG))
17:30
17:30 - 18:20
Contributions

17:30 Therapy for Early COVID-19 - A Critical Need - Arzhang Cyrus Javan (NIH – DAIDS)

17:50 The role of nuclear medicine in therapy evaluation of infectious diseases - Martina Sollini (Humanitas University – Milan – Italy)
18:20 Other than Clinical Imaging
Other than Clinical Imaging
18:20 - 19:35
Contributions

18:20 INFN and Catania Univ. Anti Covid Lab for face mask characterisation - Giacomo Cuttone (LNS)

18:40 Spike Proteins in MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 Coronaviruses: Differences in Proteic Conformation - Annalisa D'Arco (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and SBAI Department, Sapienza University of Rome)

19:00 On Resonant Ablation of CoViD Virus in Public Places - Yogendra Srivastava (PG)
Sunday, 23 May 2021
15:00 Imaging and more
Imaging and more
15:00 - 17:05
Contributions

15:00 Accurate Image Quantification with Advanced Image Reconstruction - Harry Tsoumpas (University of Leeds)

15:20 Automatic Lung Analysis for COVID-19 Patients - Fei Gao (Siemens Healthineers)

15:40 The role of AI in COVID-19 management: quantification of lung involvement using CT scans - Francesca Lizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:15 Artificial intelligence to reduce the radiation burden for PET/CT imaging of COVID patients - Kuangyu Shi (University of Bern)

16:35 COVID-19 therapy optimization by AI-driven biomechanical simulations - Cecilia Voena (ROMA1)
17:05
17:05 - 18:25
Contributions

17:05 The point of view of the Regulatory Agency - Marco Cavaleri (EMA)

17:25 From fundamental physics research to medical applications: Ventilation System and PET - Art McDonald (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)

17:45 Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic - Unique Opportunities for Unifying, Revamping and Reshaping Epidemic Preparedness of (Europe’s) Public Health Systems - Giuseppe Ippolito (Spallanzani Institute – Scientific Director)

18:05 The role of media in a pandemy - Maurizio Molinari (Director "La Repubblica" Newspaper)
18:25
18:25 - 19:25
Contributions

18:25 Round Table - Andrea Gori (Policlinico of Milan) Arturo Chiti (Humanitas University – Milan – Italy) Giorgio Parisi (ROMA1) Giuseppe Ippolito (Spallanzani Institute – Scientific Director) Marco Cavaleri (EMA) Maurizio Molinari (Director "La Repubblica" Newspaper) Paul Lecoq (CERN)

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