PET Scanner Installed at the Mary Lyon Centre

We were thrilled to install a PET scanner at the Mary Lyon Centre. This cutting-edge equipment promises to revolutionize the institution’s research capabilities, particularly in the realm of preclinical imaging.

The Rosalind Franklin Institute and Mary Lyon Centre are collaborating on a new project which will explore new ways of chemically labelling living cells. These new labels will open up new ways of probing and understanding biology. The partners aim to develop novel radiotracers which can be used for PET imaging to address new biological questions.

Professor Ben Davis, Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry, said, “We think that we can harness PET imaging to understand fundamental biochemical processes which will help us to better understand disease and hopefully open up new avenues of treatment. We are thrilled to be taking the first steps doing this with the Mary Lyon Centre as project partners, their expertise will be fundamental to helping us succeed.”

Sara Wells, Director of the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell says, “Being part of this project and having access to the new PET scanner is an exciting development for the Mary Lyon Centre. It will give the MLC a chance to image and more deeply characterise in vivo models of human disease and the targets of potential therapeutics.”

Read the full press release here.

Professor Ben Davis, Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry, and Dr Sara Wells, Director of the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell