Imaging Equipment Ltd are proud to be providing equipment for the Kings College MSC in Radiopharmaceutics and PET Radiochemistry for the third year running. Imaging Equipment Ltd are providing a Modular-Lab for FEC production. This pre-validated and ‘ready for use’ setup of the Modular-Lab is the ideal tool for standardised and reproducible synthesis of Fluoroethylcholine. Many tumors are characterised by an increased cell proliferation, which is typically associated with an elevated uptake and phosphorylation of choline to form phosphoryl choline. This is a major ingredient for the formation of the mammalian cell membrane. FEC is widely used in the PET oncology for proliferation studies of prostate carcinoma over the last years.
The purpose of the course is to educate, train and equip students from a chemistry, pharmacy or related background to enter employment as radiopharmaceutical scientists in a PET radiochemistry centre (cyclotron unit) or in a conventional radiopharmacy, providing diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals to nuclear medicine centres or specialised commercial centres, or to study for a PhD in this field.
This MSC is unique, not only in the UK but world-wide. Radiopharmaceutics is a growing international industry facing a major skills shortage. Graduates from the programme are in demand, whether in hospitals, preparing radiopharmaceuticals for cancer patients, in research in universities or industry or in the drug industry which is increasingly using PET (Positron Electron Tomography) as a major drug development tool. For more details regarding the course go to;
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/radiopharmaceutics_and_pet_radiochemistry/details
