PET is Wonderful – Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Teaching Resources
PiW-CZI scholarship (a “hands-on” summer scholarship)
A fully funded summer scholarship of 12 weeks long to be competitively awarded annually to one student, technician or post-doctoral researcher within 10 years of their PhD award (i.e. early career researcher) looking to learn more about in vivo PET imaging techniques.
A panel of PET experts will assess proposals and the successful applicant will be invited to receive “hands-on” training in the core PET imaging facility in Edinburgh.
Each successful researcher candidate may be the recipient of a single award only, up to a maximum value of $8,100.
PiW-CZI Free Online Course on PET:
Previous scholars
2026 – Jarrad Perron
University of Manitoba, Canada
2025 – Daniel Oguna
KUTRRH, Kenya
2024 – Luiza-Simona Damoc
King’s College London, UK
2023 – Lucia Maccioni
University of Padova, Italy
Find out more about the impact of the PiW-CZI scholarship programme (2023-2025) and other people-centred funding as catalyst for sustainable imaging infrastructure. Click here to find out more.
PET is Wonderful Continued Education Videos
The following videos are from the PET is Wonderful 2025 workshop:
- Preclinical PET instrumentation: past, present and future
- Clinical PET instrumentation: history and recent developments
- PET image reconstruction: fundamentals and emerging innovation
- PET data formats: past history and current resources
- Kinetic modelling: fundamental principles and latest developments
- Network analysis and radiomics in total-body PET imaging
- Radiotracer translation and clinical adoption in the EU
- Clinical PET imaging: current state of the art, technical challenges and future perspectives
- Containerizing pre-processing tools for clinical PET
