Welcome! We’re a University of Ottawa research lab at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. We’re working on making imaging agents to study and diagnose diseases by understanding their molecular mechanisms.
December 20 - Uzair led a real team effort for cardiac neuroimaging with mFBG. Read all about it at European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
December 17 - Lab holiday party! Happy holidays everyone!
December 10 - Check out Braeden's carbon-11 method for labeling amino acids in Can J Chem!
November 27 - Big congrats to our newest PhD student Emily for passing her transfer exam!
November 15 - Abhishek presents his photocatalysis research at QOMSBOC in Quebec City!
October 16 - Congratulations to Faiz, our new USRO student!
September 12 - We welcome Justin and Neal into the lab as volunteers this year!
August 12 - Ezana, Puskar, and Ryan present at the UOHI Summer Student Research Day!
June 17-18 - We're thrilled to host the Chemistry of Molecular Imaging symposium at CSC 2025 in Ottawa (co-organized with Adam Shuhendler)! Abhishek, Emily, and Hunter present their research and we catch up with peers new and old at an unforgetable mixer.
June 10 - Congratulations to Megan, Ariel, Braeden, Faduma, Hunter, and Ezana on their convocations! #proudPI
June 2 - Abhishek and Emily attend the Next Generation in Nuclear Medicine workshop hosted by McMaster University and King's College London.
May 13 - Ben presents new carbon-11 methods at ISRS 2025 in Queensland!
April 29 - Ben gives a talk at University of Alberta. Thanks to Dr. Wuest for hosting!
April 7 - Hunter and Ezana present their honours projects in the Faculty of Science and Ryan presents his rotation project in TMM. Undergrads making things happen!
April 4 - Congrats to Megan on defending his MSc! Megan is off to McGill this fall to start her PhD!
March 27 - Congratulations to Braeden on his successful PhD defense!! One of the lab OGs, Braeden is off to Harvard for his NSERC PDF starting this summer!
March 26 - Congratulations to Faduma on defending her MSc! You did it!
March 6 - Ben gives a talk at McMaster University. Thanks to Prof. Inkster for hosting!
December 13 - Ben presents our research at CMIE-CNIC's Symposium on Medical Isotopes.
December 10 - Congratulations to Ariel Buchler on defending his PhD thesis!! The second PhD from our group is off in January to start a postdoctoral fellowship at BC Cancer Agency, funded by Michael Smith Health Research BC!