The National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP) is the UK’s first-of-its-kind national total-body PET imaging platform for drug discovery.
Driven by a partnership between Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Innovate UK, NPIP is designed to give the UK’s pioneering researchers unprecedented access to technology that will explode the scope of research into multi-organ, complex diseases.
NPIP will bring together data from two state-of-the-art total-body PET imaging scanners located at St Thomas’ Hospital, London (jointly managed by King’s College London and Imperial College London), and The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (jointly managed by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow), and make it accessible to academics, industry and clinicians.
Supplied by Siemens Healthineers, the two Biograph Vision Quadra PET/CT scanners are equipped with technical precision that redefines the boundaries of molecular imaging and enables imaging of a patient’s entire body in near real-time.
This year, NPIP welcomed the Royal Free London as a collaborative partner in bringing revolutionary total-body PET capabilities to the UK.
This network of infrastructure and intelligence will not only provide a complete picture of patients and how they respond to novel drugs and treatments, but it will connect insights from a multitude of research programmes and trials.
NPIP will help connect imaging data and make the UK’s medical research more effective for patient benefit.
Dr Juliana Maynard, Director of Operations and Engagement for the National PET Imaging Platform (NPIP) and Head of Translational Imaging at Medicines Discovery Catapult, said:
“NPIP is delighted to be welcomed into the UK Health Data Research Alliance membership. Access to superior clinical data means we can propel drug discovery and drive world-leading capabilities in detection, diagnosis, and treatment of serious diseases. Accurate statistical records are key for collaboration, NPIP can continue to retrieve vital data for researchers to set a new standard of excellence for UK medical imaging research.”
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