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RAPHAEL and Sumitomo Student Awards

The RAPHAEL Student Research Award sponsored by Ticura Global, and the Sumitomo NMT Student Award are held during the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM).   The awards aim to motivate and stimulate student participation in the field of nuclear medicine.  The RAPHAEL Student Research Award sponsored by Ticura Global is for research work in Nuclear Medicine presented at the ASM as an oral presentation by an undergraduate or postgraduate student.  The Sumitomo NMT Student Award is for research, investigational, case study or other work presented at the ASM as an oral presentation by a Nuclear Medicine Technologist Student.
 
 
 

 

2025 Annual Scientific Meeting RAPHAEL Student Research Award Winner

Catherine Dickmann, University of Cambridge
Development of a halofluorocarbon, chromatography-free radiosynthesis of fluorine-18 difluorocarbene on the GE TracerLab FXFN module

 

 

2025 Annual Scientific Meeting Sumitomo NMT Student Award Winner

Jess Watson, Royal Darwin Hospital

Evaluating the expression pattern of MUC1-CE in head and neck cancers for potential application in radioimmunotherapy

 

 

 

2024 Annual Scientific Meeting RAPHAEL Student Research Award Winner

Rachel Maclean, Monash University
Novel bis(thiosemicarbazonato) technetium-99m nitrido complexes for prostate cancer imaging

 

 

2024 Annual Scientific Meeting Sumitomo NMT Student Award Winner

Caitlin Burt, Royal Darwin Hospital
Effects of levodopa/carbidopa on the blood pressure, superior mesenteric artery blood flow and gastric emptying responses to oral glucose in Parkinson disease – an exploratory study

 

 

2023 ASM ANZSNM Student Award Winners

Iliana Angelidakis, Radiology SA
Variation in Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy Protocols in Australia and New Zealand: An Online Survey.

 

Stephen Tronchin, The University of Adelaide

Modelling the effect of daughter migration on dosimetry estimates for actinium-225 in targeted alpha therapy.

 

 

 

2022 ASM ANZSNM Student Award Winner

Sunyu Cha, University of South Australia
The Functionality of 18-kda Translocator Protein Radioligand [18F]GE-180 as a Biomarker in the Diagnostic and Prognostic Evaluation of Spinal Cord Injury Imaging

 

2021 ASM ANZSNM Student Award Winner

Nicola Evans, University of South Australia
Effects of Exenatide Once Weekly on Intragastric Distribution of Solids and Liquidsand Perceptions of Appetite, In Healthy Overweight Subjects

 

 

2020 ASM ANZSNM Student Award Winner

Laetitia Mai, RMIT
What comes first? The patient or education?

Watch the RADPHARM and Nuclear Medicine Undergraduate Student Award Live Presentations below:

  

 
 

2020 ANZSNM Student Award Additional Presenters
Xinyuan Ren, UniSA
 Bone scintigraphy: a snapshot analysis of current practice in an adult population
across South Australia Medical Imaging (SAMI) sites
Read the abstract HERE

Wendy Phan, UniSA
Is there antibody out there? 89Zr-mAbs are taking over the world!
Read the abstract HERE

 

2019 ANZSNM Student Award Winner

Kate Romeo, University of South Australia
Labelled red blood cell liver scan in the investigation of suspected haemangiona: a case study



 
 
Refer to the Society Archive page HERE to read more on past award winners and their abstracts