date and venue 16-17 July 2005 at Hyatt Regency Saujana, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DIrections to the venue will be made available later. what is molecular imaging? Molecular imaging is broadly defined as the characterisation and measurement of biological processes in living animals at the cellular and molecular level. The future of molecular imaging lies in: Therapy monitoring Early diagnosis Personalised medicine Early disease detection topics covered Introduction: Why should radiologists learn about molecular imaging Basic molecular biology: From DNA to proteins Basic molecular biology: Methods, genomics, and proteomics Contrast agents 1: Sensitivity, biodistribution, signal amplification, toxicity, general chemistry issues Contrast agents 2: Probe design, including smart probes and reporter genes Instrumentation: Overview, signal detection, and signal processing Preclinical and clinical applications 1: PET Preclinical and clinical applications 2: SPECT international advisory board King C.P. Li Associate Director for Radiology and Imaging Sciences Program, National Institute of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, United States Lilian Leong Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Malai Mutarak Department of Radiology, Chiang Mai University, Thailand mmuttara@mail.med.cmu.ac.th Cholid Badri Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Indonesia, Indonesia Wilfred C.G. Peh Professor and Senior Consultant Radiologist, Singapore Health Services, Singapore wilfred.peh@singhealth.com.sg Emmanuel Almazan President, Philippine College of Radiology, The Philippines speakers King C.P. Li MD, FRCP(C), MBA Associate Director for Radiology and Imaging Sciences Program, National Institute of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, United States kingli@nih.gov Sunil D. Pandit Leader, Bioengineering Genomic Appplications, National Institute of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, United States sp311h@nih.gov Lai-Meng Looi Professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia looilm@um.edu.my Maude Phipps Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia maudephipps@yahoo.co.uk Azizuddin Kamaruddin Head, Laboratory Animal Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia azizud@ummc.edu.my Rodney Hicks MBBS (Hons), MD, FRACP Professor of Medicine and Radiology, University of Melbourne, Australia Director, Centre for Molecular Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Australia rod.hicks@petermac.org Onn Hashim Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia onnhashim@um.edu.my Charles Keller MD Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Structural Biology Director, Small Animal Imaging Core Facility, Children's Cancer Research Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, United States Arne Hengerer PhD Director Of Molecular Imaging Business Development, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany arne.hengerer@med.siemens.de Patricia A Bresnahan PhD Regional Applications Manager, Discovery Systems GE Healthcare Biosciences (formerly Amersham Biosciences), Hong Kong organised by Continuing Radiological Education (CRE), University of Malaya Medical Centre Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya College of Radiology, Academy of Medicine Malaysia supported by GE Philips Schering AG Siemens who should attend Bioengineers Medical physicists Oncologists Pathologists Radiologists