2026 WMIC Program Committee

Erik Shapiro, PhD
Program Chair
Michigan State University, USA

Israt Alam, PhD
Immunology/Inflammation
Stanford University, USA

Amnon Bar-Shir, PhD
New Chemistry, Materials and Probes
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Kevin Bennett, PhD
Instrumentation
Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Maria Veronica Clavijo Jordan, PhD
Oncology
MGH/Harvard, USA

David Cormode, PhD
New Chemistry, Materials, and Probes
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Eric Gale, PhD
New Chemistry, Materials, and Probes
MGH/Harvard, USA

Caroline Guglielmetti, PhD
Neuroscience
Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Imran Iqbal, PharmD
Cardiovascular & Systemic Diseases
Turku PET Centre, Finland

Ashley Makela, PhD
Oncology
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Osama Mawlawi, PhD
Instrumentation and Computational & Data Science
MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Michael McMahon, PhD
Bioengineering, Synthetic Biology and Basic Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Arnab Mukherjee, PhD
Bioengineering, Synthetic Biology and Basic Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Michael Nickels, PhD
Oncology
Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Arvind P Pathak, PhD
Imaging & New Approach Methodologies (iNAMs)
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Federica Pisaneschi, PhD
New Chemistry, Materials, and Probes
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Bryan Smith, PhD
Cardiovascular & Systemic Diseases
Michigan State University, USA

Lilja Solnes, MD
Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Katrien Vandoorne, DVM, PhD
Infection
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Xiaowei Wang, PhD
Cardiovascular & Systemic Diseases
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia

Elena Zannoni, PhD
Instrumentation & Computational & Data Science
University of Texas at Austin, USA

Hong Zhang, MD, PhD
Oncology
Zhejiang University, China
