This month, PETNET Solutions is undertaking some important market research. Our June newsletter contains a simple and easy to answer survey designed for our customers and the nuclear medicine community.

The Royal North Shore (RNS) Hospital, Sydney has confirmed PETNET Solutions as its new FDG supply partner. This exciting news follows the installation of the latest state-of-the art multimodality combination PET/CT scanner in the hospital’s Department of Nuclear Medicine.

Not many twenty year olds get the opportunity to hang out in a PET Production facility with twin Eclipse Cyclotrons and Explora chemistry modules, but for James Weale, a University of Newcastle student, that’s exactly what the last 3 months have been about.

PETNET Solutions Australia is pleased to announce it’s sponsorship of the pre-meeting symposium at the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM) to be held in Auckland, New Zealand in 2010.

On 22 October, the PETNET Solutions team hosted a surprise visit from the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA).

PETNET Solutions is pleased to announce the much anticipated approval to hot commission from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA).

On 27 November 2009, PETNET Solutions shipped its first commercial batch of F18 to the Radiopharmaceutical Research Institute (RRI).

PETNET Solutions is pleased to announce another significant milestone has been reached with the facility receiving regulatory approval to manufacture FDG under the code of Good Manufacturing Practice.

Senator the Hon Kim Carr officially opened the PETNET Solutions state-of-the-art radiopharmaceutical production centre in his role as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research on Wednesday 5 August.

When John Hodder, PETNET Solutions General Manager, heard about 9 year old cancer survivor Jayde Bell he was immediately taken by her story.

PETNET Solutions in the USA has executed a supply agreement with Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc.

The recent Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine 39th Annual Scientific meeting clearly demonstrated the growing and dominating role of PET imaging in nuclear medicine.