Advisor

Mathew Thakur, M.D., Ph.D. - Clinical Consultant

Dr. Thakur obtained his BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Bombay and then his MS and PhD in Radiochemistry from the University of London. After his post-graduate year at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine he was appointed as Associate Professor of Radiology in the Dept. of Radiology at Yale University Medical School. He then moved to his current position as the Professor of Radiology and Director of the Laboratories of Radiopharmaceutical Research and Molecular Imaging at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He made extensive contributions to Nuclear Medicine, including the development of many instrumental radiopharmaceutical products and the publication of thirty-nine book chapters, more than three hundred research articles, several editorials and edit oversight on four additional books. For this work, he’s received many prestigious, national and international awards including the Maurice Chamberland Award of the American Chemical Society, as well as the Paul Aebersol, Charles Hevesey and Cassen Awards of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He is the past president of the International Society of Radiolabeled Blood Elements, the Indo-American Society of Nuclear Medicine, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and its Molecular Imaging Center of Excellence. Dr. Thakur currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Chairs several of its committees.