Prof. Dr. med. Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss

birth date: May 16th, 1963

Academic Education

1981-87 Medical School, University of Athens (8.5/10 p)
1988 Approbation
1990 M.D. (Dr. med.), Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (magna cum laude)
1998 Board certified Nuclear Medicine
2004 Assistant professor of Nuclear Medicine
2007 Full professor of Nuclear Medicine

Scientific Activities:

Publications: 110 (based on PubMed)
Invited papers: 22
Book chapters: 53
Proceedings, Abstracts.: >600
Talks: >600
Invited lectures: >50
h-index: 33

Editorial Board:

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (2003-2005)
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (since 2004)
Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine (since 2005)
The Open Nuclear Medicine Journal (since 2007)
The Open Medical Imaging Journal (since 2011)
ISRN Molecular Imaging (since 01.12.2011)
Clinical and Translational Imaging-Reviews in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (since 2013)

Reviewer:

Journals:
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
The Cancer Journal
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Cancer Letters
Cancer Therapy
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe
Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics
Journal of Pediatric Neurology
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Annals of Thoracic Medicine
Current Drug Discovery Technologies
Molecular Imaging & Biology
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Molecular Imaging
ISRN Molecular Imaging
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Cancers
Imaging in Medicine
Clinical Cancer Research
Cancer Investigation
Clinical and Translational Imaging-Reviews in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Future Medicine
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Abstracts (Congresses):
Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine
Annual Meeting of the European Society of Nuclear Medicine

Grants:
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (for the Program: „Enhancement of the cost
effectiveness of PET diagnostics“)
Scottish Executive Health Department
Medical Research Council, UK

Institutions:
National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athen, GR
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology, GR
National Hellenic Research Foundation, GR
University of Thessaly, GR
Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, GR
Democritus Univ. of Thrace, GR
 

Coordination of international projects, grants received

German Cancer Society (Deutsche Krebshilfe):

Optimization and individualization of therapy planing in patients with liver metastases from colorectal carcinomas (1992-1994).

Therapy monitoring of ipilimumab based on quantitative F-18-Deoxyglucose (FDG) kinetic studies with the 4D positron emission tomography-computed tomography (dPET-CT) in patients with melanoma stage 4 (2014-2016).

European Concerted Action on PET in Oncology:

EC Collaboration I PET Oncology
EORTC-PET Study Group

Tumor Center Heidelberg/Mannheim (1996-2000):

Studies with new functional biological methods and noninvasive determination of the multidrug resistance

Bilateral project german-greek collaboration, sponsored by the German Air and Space Center (Deutsche Luft und Raumfahrt, DLR) and the Secretary for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Research entitled:

Multicancer Studies with Positron Emission Tomography

Bilateral project German-spanish collaboration, sponsored by the Secretary for Research and Technology of the German Research ministry and the Spanish Ministry „of Foreign Affairs“ entitled:

Telemedicine Workstation for Nuclear Medicine - Development and integration of new Image reconstruction and image registration methods for PET to a telematic system

Grant of the Behr-Stiftung

Functional studies with Positron Emission Tomography for therapy monitoring

Grant of the “Tumorzentrum Heidelberg/Mannheim (2001-2005)“:

Evaluation of Positron emission tomography (PET) in the diagnostics and prognosis of soft tumor sarcomas.

TENPET (Transeuropean Network for Positron Emission Tomography), EU-Project (2003-2005)

PET projects within the Strategic alliance SIEMENS-DKFZ (2009-2011)

PET projects within the Network Transregio SFB-TR 79 (sponsored by the German Research Society): „Werkstoffe für die Geweberegeneration im systemisch erkrankten Knochen“ (2010-2014), (2014-2018).

PET projects within the network of DOT-MOBI (sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF): „Softwareplattform für die multimodale Diagnostik onkologischer Erkrankungen und Therapieoptimierung durch molekulare Bildgebung“ (2009-2011)

Organisation of Scientific Meetings:

European Workshop on FDG in Oncology, Heidelberg, 15.16. Juni 1990
Second European Workshop on FDG in Oncology, Heidelberg, 2.4. April 1991
PMOD Workshop, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 28.-29. April 2006

Awards:

Award of the European Radiology Association (ECR) 1991
“TravelAward“ of the American Association of Cancer Research, 1996
Award of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) 2000
Georg-von-Hevesy-Preis 2006 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Nuklearmedizin

Chairwoman:

Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine
Brussels, Belgium, 26 - 30 August 1995

Joint WFNM&B and EANM Congress,
Berlin, Germany, August 30 - September 4, 1998

Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine,
Barcelona, Spain, October 9-13, 1999

Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine,
Toronto, Kanada, June 23-27, 2001

Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine,
Los Angeles, USA, June 15-19, 2002

Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine,
Vienna, Austria, August 31 - September 4, 2002

8th Congress of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (WFNM&B)
Santiago, Chile, September 29 - October 2, 2002

Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine,
New Orleans, USA, June 21-25, 2003

Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine,
Istanbul, Turkey, October 15-19, 2005

Annual Meeting of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine,
Munich, Germany, October 11-15, 2008

9th Asia Oceania Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
New Delhi, India, October 31-November 4, 2008

PCS Global Cancer Conference-2014;
Athens, Greece, October 31-November 3, 2014

Areas of Research Interest and Current Projects:

PET-CT and PET-MRI oncological studies
Multitracer dynamic studies with PET in oncology
Radiolabelled cytostatic agents for therapy prognosis in tumor patients
Kinetic modelling
PET and molecular biology
Small animal Imaging

Publications