Valentina Garibotto
Affiliations: Department of Nuclear Physics
Group name: Laboratory of Neuroimaging and Innovative Molecular Tracers (NIMTLab)
Domains: Development and Plasticity
Keywords: biomarkers, molecular neuroimaging, neurodegeneration, neurotransmission
Research activities
Our research group works on molecular neuroimaging, a tool allowing the in vivo measurement of protein deposits, brain metabolism and neurotransmission. Molecular imaging has changed the way we understand brain disorders, especially those associated with neurodegeneration. In this field, the current gold standard is still neuropathology at post-mortem: this represents an intrinsic limitation for the development and assessment of targeted therapies. The availability of in vivo biomarkers of the disease, among these molecular imaging, finally offers an opportunity for precision medicine in degenerative disorders and has already changed how we evaluate patients and how we test new drugs. Our group benefits from a unique and privileged position, on one hand working in close collaboration with various research groups at the Geneva University and abroad and on the other hand being embedded in a clinical division of the Geneva University Hospitals for patient diagnosis and care. This position allows us to translate new ideas and knowledge, coming from basic and applied research programs, into procedures that can be tested in clinical studies and validated for clinical practice.
Latest publications
Morphological and Advanced Imaging of Epilepsy: Beyond the Basics.
Metabolic patterns across core features in dementia with lewy bodies.
Does whole-body Patlak F-FDG PET imaging improve lesion detectability in clinical oncology?
First in-human radiation dosimetry of the gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptor antagonist Ga-NODAGA-MJ9.
Videos
Contact
Service de Médecine Nucléaire et Imagerie Moléculaire
HUG
Email: valentina.garibotto@hcuge.ch