ERF MIIT Advisory Committee Young Investigator Awards

The Young Investigator Awards (YIA) recognize the best abstracts presented during the MIIT Young Investigators Session at the SNMMI Annual Meeting. Young Investigators are defined as individuals within five years of completing a residency training program or a PhD program (five years from the YIA presentation date).

The 2026 winners are:

• 1st Place – Cristina Simó, "PET imaging to optimize EGFR/HER2 antibody-ADC click therapy"
• 2nd Place – Qinghe Wu, "Olaparib Sensitizes Prostate Cancer to [177Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 Radioligand Therapy via Suppression of Glycolysis"
• 3rd Place – Raheema Damani, "L-5-[11C]-glutamine PET of Breast Cancer: Kinetic Analysis in Mouse Models to Evaluate Biologic Features of Glutamine Metabolism"

Previous Award Recipients