The Fruhwirth Lab

On one day in the second half of July I first received a touching message from our FoLSM Executive Dean Prof Ajay Shah and then another one from our President and Vice-Chancellor Prof Shitij Kapur; both congratulated me to my promotion to ‘Professor of Molecular Imaging’ … and then I was told I have to hold back telling anyone about reaching this important career milestone for a few days. But came 1st August 2025, I could finally tell my team, and we had an impromptu celebration at our King’s Beach. What a joy to celebrate with those in the lab on that day and at the same time thinking about all the many other people who had supported me over all those years!

I would like to especially thank my beloved family, friends, and great mentors for their persistent support as well as the many brilliant colleagues and team members passionately working with me over all these years.

…came with lots of interesting science, great networking opportunities, and brilliant views over London.

Second year in a row spending a day at Gunnerbury Catholic School trying to encourage pupils across the secondary school age ranges for Biomedical and Medical Research at King’s College London.

EMIM is the most important international imaging meeting for our team – and also this year there was fabulous science, we met old friends and made new friends, and we had many meaningful conversations wkith colleagues and firends about all the different things we are curious to learn about as well as very happy to share. Thank you ESMI for yet another fantastic Molecular Imaging conference! And congratulations to Jade and Sarah whose work was highly rated by our colleagues and was showcased in competitively selected oral presentations.

I am very grateful to Prof Petra Reinke from Charite/Berlin for the invitation as keynote speaker to the ReShape H2020 Consortium Workshop – this was a great opportunity to highlight how in vivo tracking of engineered cell-based therapeutics can be achieved and why it will be hugely beneficial for the development and translation of more of these very exciting new treatment modalities. Thankfully the meeting was recorded and you can find it here.

It was great to get the opportunity to showcase what it takes to enable long-term cell tracking by whole-body imaging for adoptive cell therapies in the context of immune tolerance. A big ‘Thank You’ to Prof Fadi Issa who organised this prestigious meeting, this time in Oxford. The corresponding meeting report is now available online.

It was the first time that the PNI was held at King’s College London. I had the honour to organise this event within the great premises of the King’s Building at our inner city Strand Campus in Central London. We had a great part of the UK nuclear imaging community attend with colleagues and friends from both academia and industry.

Felt honoured and have been very excited to serve for a second year in a row on the WMIC 2024 Programme Committee being in charge of the Oncology agenda. It was great fun and fabulous to work with all these great colleagues and friends to help make WMIC 2024 another great meeting held in Montreal, which was a fantastic location.

This were a great two months helping Anna from Prof Achim Temme’s laboratory at the TU Dresden perform some very interesting reporter gene experiments in the context of trogocytosis – sad is just how quickly time has passed with Anna now returning to Germany to concentrate on finishing the last touches of her PhD.