Plenary Speakers
Juergen Hennig, PhD, Germany
University Medical Center Freiburg

Professor and co-chairman of department
Research field: Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy: Methodological Developments, Functional Neuroimaging, Molecular Imaging, Whole Body Imaging, Cardiac and Cardiovascular MR
Yeon Hyeon Choe, MD, Korea
Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

Director, Cardiovascular and Stroke Imaging Center, Heart Vascular and Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

Invited Speakers
Ichio Aoki, PhD, Japan
Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences

Team Leader, Multimodal Molecular Imaging Team
Research field: Functional/molecular MR imaging, Development of novel probe for multimodal /theranostic imaging, Development of MRI technique, analysis, and image processing, Physiology of microcirculation in cerebral nervous system and cancer
Sankarprasad Bhuniya, PhD, India
Korea Basic Science Institute

Division of Magnetic Resonance Research
Research field: Synthesis and evaluation of novel theranostic pro-drug, Synthesis of smart MRI contrast agent to study metabolic abnormality and response to ROS factor, Supramolecular chemistry, including polymeric and non-polymeric biodegradable hydrogel, Optical sensor for detecting cations, aninons and various ROS in vitro, Targeted drug delivery and cellular imaging
Koji Fujimoto, MD, PhD, Japan
Kyoto University

Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Medicine
Toshiro Inubushi, PhD, Japan
Shiga University of Medical Science

Director and Professor, Biomedical MR Science Center
2009-10 President of Japanese Society for Molecular Imaging
Ikuhiro Kida, PhD, Japan
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Senior Researcher, Center for Information and Neural Networks
Yoshifumi Kuroki, MD, PhD, Japan
Tochigi Cancer Center

Deputy Director of Diagnostic Imaging Division
Research field: CT/MRI diagnosis of breast and abdominal region
Takayuki Masui, MD, PhD, Japan
Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital

Associate Director, Health Information Center
Chief, Department of Radiology
Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, Japan
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

Professor of Radiology,
General Manager, Advanced Biomedical Imaging Research Center
Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih, MD, Taiwan
National Taiwan University Hospital

Chair, Department of Medical Imaging and Radiology
Research field: Tumor Angiogenesis, Tissue Perfusion, MR Spectroscopy
Xiaoying Wang, MD, China
Peking University First Hospital
Chairman of Radiology Department


Research experience: Twenty years experience in research of urogenital radiology. More than 100 papers published in Chinese academic journals an 30 papers published in international journals. Three running research projects funded by Peking University and Beijing Municipal Health Bureau. Seven books and 24 chapters
Yihong Yang, PhD, USA
National Institutes of Health

Senior Investigator and Chief, MR Imaging and Spectroscopy Section
National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program
Takeshi Yoshikawa, MD, PhD, Japan
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Research Interests: Diagnostic imaging of the body, Interventional radiology
Minming Zhang, MD, PhD, China
Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Director of Image centre of the Second affiliated hospital, the academic leader of department of Radiology
Research interests: the tumor diagnosis and neurodegenerative diseases diagnosed with advanced image techniques