BioMedima

BioMedima is a non-profit Association (Art. 60 ff. Swiss Civil law) that promotes the understanding and use of biomedical imaging in order to foster knowledge and technology transfer.

BioMedima aims at becoming the main online gateway to
worldwide resources in the field of biomedical imaging with four main goals:

1)To educate by publishing an open-access comprehensive set of fundamental scientific
information about biomedical imaging technologies and biophysics principle. On the BioMedima
web site, the information is structured and presented in an innovative way to ease and fasten
access and understanding.

2)To reference by gathering in a database worldwide imaging actors (user & manufacturers), their
expertise and related publications as well as their interactions (e.g. collaborations). Our database
will use Web 3.0 semantic web technology for more efficient data organization and mining.

3)To review by listing and commenting characteristics and uses of existing imaging scanners/
machines, related IT tools and biochemical (contrast agents and molecular probes). Such a service
does not exist at the moment but would be of great help to anyone interesting to invest in an
imaging device or contrast medium.

4)To synchronize by collecting and coordinating demands and offers for projects and
collaborations in the field of biomedical imaging. BioMedima shall facilitate and link potential
partners, take in charge administrative burden, ease the collaboration for sustainability and ensure
good relations with other research or healthcare groups.

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Valentina Aureggi, PhD, co-founder, head of imaging chemistry: Valentina was born in Como (Italy) and studied Chemistry. She obtained her MSc. from the University
of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and her PhD in Organic Chemistry working at Novartis Pharma Basel in Process Research and Development in 2007 from the University of Neuchâtel. After two postdoctoral fellowships in Organic Chemistry (University of Toronto) and Medicinal Chemistry(ETH Zurich), Valentina works now in the consulting business.

Cedric Berger, PhD and future MBA, founder and president:
Cedric was born in Erlangen (Germany) and studied cell biology and biotechnologies in France; he obtained a MSc. Biomedical Imaging Technologies (ULP, France) and a PhD in Biophysics working at Novartis Discovery Technologies (Basel) from Basel University (Switzerland). Cedric spent
more than two years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and works now as a clinical science specialist in drug development for oncology indications.

Antoine Leimgruber, MD, co-founder, head of cancer imaging:
Antoine was born in Switzerland and was trained both as a physicist (MSc) and a physician (MD). Antoine's clinical training took place in Switzerland (research associate in molecular modeling at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne) and overseas from South America, the USA (postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Molecular Imaging Research in Harvard) and presently Australia.

Moritz Wildgruber, MD PhD, co-founder, head of cardiovascular imaging: Moritz was born in Munich (Germany) and completed Medical School in Hamburg, Munich, New
York and Bern. He obtained his thesis at the Interdisciplinary Center for Vascular Diseases at the
Technische Universität München. He subsequently was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Molecular Imaging Research and Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School and act now as a radiologist at the Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technische
Universität München in Germany.

Mr Cedric Berger (President)

Mr Cedric Berger (President)

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