Danielle Vugts
Associate Professor
Amsterdam VU University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Danielle Vugts has a PhD in organic chemistry and over 12 years experience in radiochemisty. Her research interests are immuno-PET as well as the development of radiolabelling methods for fluorine-18, carbon-11 and zirconium-89 and application of these new techniques in the synthesis of PET tracer for oncology and neurology. Furthermore, she is head of production for clinical immuno-PET studies and has in collaboration with several pharma companies developed more than 25 antibody conjugates for clinical use. She is chair of the Dutch Society for clinical radiochemistry (NKRV) and board member of the Dutch Society of Nuclear Medicine NVNG), director Europe of the society of radiopharmaceutical sciences (SRS) and editorial board member of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Radiopharmacy and
Chemistry and editor for Journal of Labelled compounds and radiopharmaceuticals. She has (co)-authored 65 peer-reviewed publications (H-index 27)
Scientific Expertise
Oncology, Neuroscience, PET/SPECT
Mentoring Interests
Networking, Work/life Balance, Scientific Writing, Résumé Building, Time Management
In my free time, I enjoy…
Bootcamp, museum visits with my children