Team members

Scanomed Translational Imaging- Ildiko Garai M.D., Ph.D.

Ildiko Garai M.D., Ph.D.

Head of the Translational Research Center, Medical director

Dr. Garai graduated in Medicine and got her Ph.D. in Theoretical Medicine at the University of Debrecen. She erned Board Certification in Radiology in 1994 and five years later the Nuclear Medicine Specialization. Dr. Garai is currently the Medical Director at ScanoMed Ltd. and an Associate Professor of the University of Debrecen. She coordinates the patient care, research and actively takes part in everyday practice and has been the head of the Translational Research Center since 2018. She participates in evaluation of gamma camera and hybrid (PET/CT and SPECT/CT) nuclear medicine examinations. She is the qualified tutor of the Medical and Health Science Centre at the University of Debrecen. She is a member of Hevesy György Hungarian Nuclear Medicine Society and the Nuclear Medicine professional council.

Research field of interest: Preclinical and clinical pharmacological research, oncology, quantification in nuclear medicine

Education: M.D.: Board Certification in Radiology (1994) and Nuclear Medicine (1999), University of Debrecen;

Ph.D.: Biomedical Sciences, University of Debrecen

Gábor Nagy, Ph.D

Chief Radiochemist

Dr. Nagy graduated in 2014 with a master degree as chemist with radiochemistry specialization in the University of Debrecen. He received his Ph.D. at the Doctoral School of Clinical Sciences at the University of Debrecen. Gábor has been working at ScanoMed Ltd. as a radiochemist since 2014, and he took part in the set-up of the Translational Research Center. He is responsible for the chelator optimization of labelling reactions, the production and quality check of the radiotracers. He has been operating as the chief radiochemist since 2020. He is also member of the Hungarian Association of Nuclear Medicine and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine.

Research field of interest: 44Sc and 68Ga radiochemistry, generator based radionuclide production, hypoxic and angiogenic effects in emergence of metastasizes

Education: Chemistry, M.Sc.: Radiochemistry specialization,University of Debrecen (2014); 

Ph.D.: Clinical sciencesUniversity of Debrecen (2019)

Áron K. Krizsán Ph.D.

Chief Medical Physicist

Dr. Krizsán graduated from the University of Szeged in 2010 with master degree in biophysics. In 2016 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Debrecen in Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Krizsán spent his HAESF Professional Internship at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2010-2011, where he studied physics of Positron Emission Tomography. He participated in several teaching activities through the European School of Nuclear Medicine (CEE courses in Macedonia and Slovakia) as a lecturer, and also fulfilled short term research projects abroad (Leipzig Germany, Los Angeles USA). Since 2020 he has been operating as chief medical physicist, leading the ScanoMed physics task group.

Research field of interest: PET acquisition optimizations and new detector applications for PET/MRI.

Education: Physicist M.Sc.: University of Szeged (2010);
Ph.D.: Biomedical sciences, University of Debrecen (2016);

Adrienn Vágner, Ph.D.

Chemist

Dr. Vágner graduated in chemistry at the University of Debrecen with analytical chemistry specialization in 2013. She received her Ph.D. at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry in 2017. Her research project was the examination of physico-chemical behavior of Ga- and Gd- complexes. Dr. Vágner had a short term research project at the Technical University of München, where she got a deeper insight into the field of radiochemistry. She has been working at ScanoMed Ltd. as chemist since 2017 where she is responsible for labelling reactions and the whole process of radiotracer production. Adrienn’s main research is the investigation of metal complexes used in medical diagnosis and therapy.

Research field of interest: Radiometal radiochemistry, coordination chemistry, radiometal purification with solid phase extraction, antibody labeling

Education: Chemistry, M.Sc.: Analytical chemist specialization, University of Debrecen (2013)

Ph.D.: Inorganic chemistry, University of Debrecen (2017)

Dezső Szikra Ph.D.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Szikra graduated with master degree in chemistry at the University of Debrecen in 2006. He received his Ph.D. at the Department of Physical Chemistry at University of Debrecen in 2011. He is working at the Institute of Nuclear Medicine since 2009, first as QC later as the head of radiochemistry and research fellow. Dr. Szikra has been working at ScanoMed Ltd. Debrecen since 2013, when the establishment of the Translational Research Center started where he played a pivotal role in the design and set up of the facility.

Research field of interest: isotope production, microfluidic and capillary systems, automatization and fast chromatography

Education: Chemist, M.Sc.:University of Debrecen (2006); 

Ph.D.: Physical Chemistry, University of Debrecen (2011)

György Trencsényi Ph.D.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Trencsényi graduated in molecular biology at the University of Debrecen and got his Ph.D. in clinical medicine from Debrecen University as well. Dr. Trencsényi is currently an Associate Professor of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Dr. Trencsényi is widely experienced in preclinical imaging techniques (PET, SPECT, CT, MRI) and in the field of animal models. He is a member and supervisor of the Clinical Medicine Doctoral School at the University of Debrecen, the secretary general of the Hevesy György Hungarian Nuclear Medicine Society and the member of European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)

Research field of interest: Preclinical imaging, experimental oncology and animal models, image analysis

EducationMolecular Biology MSc.: University of Debrecen (2004); 

Ph.D.: Clinical Medicine, University of Debrecen (2010), 

Habilitation: Health sciences, University of Debrecen (2018)

Attila Forgács Ph.D.

Medical Physicist

Mr. Forgács received his Master Degree in Physics at the University of Debrecen in 2009. He was working in the field of cell cytometry, especially focusing on the pattern characterization of antibody labelled membrane proteins by fluorescence resonance energy transfer, using flow cytometry and confocal microscope. Mr. Forgács has been working as a medical physicist at ScanoMed Ltd. Debrecen since 2012, being responsible for the management of QA & QC, secure metrology standards, image data analysis.

Research field of interest: Answering methodological questions related to radiomics, biological task based phantom design and data evaluation, biostatistics

Education: Physicist M.Sc.: University of Debrecen (2009); 

Ph.D.: Nuclear medicine, University of Debrecen (2019)

Zoltán Szoboszlai, Ph.D.

Medical Physicist

Dr. Szoboszlai graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2006 with Master Degree in physics. From 2007 he was working at Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the field of Ion Beam Applications. His research interest was the interdisciplinary application of ion beam analysis, such as atmospheric aerosols, medical research, cultural heritage, geology, biology and environmental research. In 2014 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Debrecen in physics. Dr. Szoboszlai has been working as a medical physicist at ScanoMed Ltd. Debrecen since 2020.

Research field of interest: interdisciplinary application of physics

Education: Physicist M.Sc.: University of Debrecen (2006)

Ph.D.: Beam physics, University of Debrecen (2014)

Ferenc Nagy Ph.D.

Medical Physicist

Dr. Nagy graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2009 with Master Degree in physics. From 2009 he was a research assistant at Electronic Department of Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the field of silicon photomultiplier based nuclear detector development. Between 2012 and 2015, in the frame of Marie Curie Initial Training Network, he was a member of IMS Research & Development group at STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy involved in silicon photomultiplier sensor development. In 2017 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Debrecen in Nuclear Physics. Dr. Nagy has been working as a medical physicist at ScanoMed Ltd. Debrecen since 2017.

Research field of interest: data processing, data integration, data mining

Education: Physicist M.Sc.: University of Debrecen (2009);

Ph.D.:  Nuclear physics, University of Debrecen (2017) 

Attila Oszlánszki, B.Sc.

Technologist, Study coordinator, Application specialist

Mr. Oszlánszki graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2012 as Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging Analytic. He performed a dedicated preclinical training in 2016 and got certification as „Animal experiment theory and practice”. Attila has been working at ScanoMed Ltd. since 2012. He is also study coordinator for several clinical trials, technologist and application specialist for Mediso imaging equipment. He participated in several education program in the University of Debrecen and national association of Nuclear Medicine. He is member of the Hungarian Association of Nuclear Medicine, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine and the Hungarian Chamber of Healthcare Professionals.

Research field of interest: New technics in medical imaging, protocols optimization, post-processing

Education: Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging Analytical B.Sc.: University of Debrecen (2012)

Országh Gábor, B.Sc.

Technologist

Mr. Ország graduated from the University of Debrecen in 2020 as a Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging Analytic. He has been working at ScanoMed Ltd. as clinical and preclinical technologist since 2020. He is a member of the Hungarian Chamber of Healthcare Professionals.

Research field of interest: Preclinical imaging, experimental oncology and animal models

Education: Medical Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging Analytical Expert

B.Sc.: University of Debrecen (2020)