Scientists Who Made Significant Contribution to Discovery of Lantheus Medical Imaging's Cardiolite(R) Honored with Prestigious Nuclear Medicine Award at SNM Annual Meeting

N. BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, congratulates the team of scientists whose research served as the primary foundation for the development of the company’s leading imaging agent, Cardiolite® (Kit for the Preparation of Technetium Tc99m Sestamibi for Injection), for receiving the SNM’s Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award. Drs. Michael Abrams, Alan Davison and Alun Jones were presented this prestigious honor for their outstanding contribution to the field of nuclear medicine, specifically their discovery and development of isonitriles, a group of chemical compounds which, when used with the radioisotope technetium-99m, had groundbreaking applications for the field of molecular and nuclear imaging. Dr. Robert Atcher, president of SNM, today presented this award to this group of researchers at the SNM’s 56th Annual Meeting, the world’s largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals, in Toronto.