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Video from SNMMI: Cathy Cutler on the state of the field in 2025

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Jun 24, 2025

NEW ORLEANS -- In an interview at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) annual meeting, SNMMI President Cathy Cutler, PhD, discussed developments over the last year, as well as challenges facing the field moving ahead, such as securing stable supplies of radioisotopes. Cutler is chair of the Isotope Research and Production Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.

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