June 2025 – Clemens Mingels awarded the Alavi-Mandell Publication Award for his important work in pediatric PET imaging

Congratulations to Dr. Clemens Mingels, Assistant Attending Physician at Inselspital University Hospital of Bern, for being awarded the Alavi-Mandell Publication Award by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)! This work on “Dose Reduction in Pediatric Oncology Patients with Delayed Total-Body [18F]FDG PET/CT”, published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine in 2024, was conducted while he was a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Lorenzo Nardo’s lab at the EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center.

The Alavi-Mandell Publication Award is given to individuals who were the first author of a paper published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine who were trainees at the time of publication and made a major contribution to the completion of the work. Congratulations to Dr. Mingels and the co-authors!