The year of 2025 is the 100th anniversary of “Theory of Quantum Mechanics” described by Werner Karl Heisenberg (1925), followed by Erwin Schrödinger (1926) and Paul Dirac (1928).
Congratulations to the AOCNMB 2025 in Chennai, India, where the members of AOFNMB will join from Asia-Pacific regions and beyond to enhance a friendship each other.
The Lancet Oncology Commission reported current status of Radiology and Theranostics (Abdel-Wahab M, et al. The Lancet Oncology 2024 25:E540-580). A big expansion of nuclear medicine in our regions was expected by more accessibility and more human resource development of professionals. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD/NEA) held the international workshop on global medical radioisotope supply for sustainable and increasing accessibility (2023 and 2024 in Paris). The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supported to publish guiding principles on the education and practice of theranostics (Pascual T, et al. EJNMMI 2024 51:2320-2331). Under the IAEA Rays of Hope Initiative, two Anchor Centers of international education and training for nuclear medicine theranostics launched in our regions, one in Jordan (Prof. Akram Al-Ibraheem) and another in Japan (Prof. Yuji Nakamoto). AOFNMB has contributed to these global activities and will continue further.
Once again, thank you so much for organizing the AOCNMB 2025 in Chennai.
Sincerely yours,
Jun Hatazawa, MD, PhD
Honorary President of AOFNMB
Special Advisor to Japan Atomic Energy Commission
Professor, Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University