System for Synthesis of PET Radiopharmaceuticals

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Abstract

The Gordon Center for Medical Imaging PET Core is a Partners Healthcare System service core located at Massachusetts General Hospital, which operates a FDA registered, cGMP PET radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility to supply clinical research and pre-clinical research studies. The Gordon PET Core has over 20 PET radiopharmaceuticals available for human research studies which enable over 100 active clinical research protocols, including over 40 NIH-funded protocols, to conduct PET imaging research at MGH. The volume of clinical research studies has over the past 10 years has dramatically increased. The huge demand from investigators is associated with a large increase of NIH funded studies involving PET imaging that has created a current scheduling lead time of over 8 weeks. The Core PET radiochemistry synthesis units are currently running at maximum capacity. An increase in the manufacturing capacity of C-11 and F-18 PET radiopharmaceuticals through the addition of new synthesis units and associated lead lined hot cell is needed to address the demands from NIH-funded research studies for investigational PET drugs. The proposed instrumentation would have substantial benefit to all the funded NIH projects listed in our application as well as other institutional users and new investigators seeking NIH funding.

Key facts

NIH application ID
9940418
Project number
1S10OD026987-01A1
Recipient
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
Principal Investigator
Georges El Fakhri
Activity code
S10
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2020
Award amount
$592,500
Award type
1
Project period
2020-08-15 → 2022-12-14