Program Committee

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