September 23 afternoon, Academician of Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, David Dagan Feng from the University of Sydney, and director of the PET center, Michael Fulham from Sydney Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia and other guests, together five people, came to Department of Nuclear Medicine in our hospital for academic visit. Research teams of Professor Gang Huang, Professor Weiqiang Gao and Professor Lisheng Wang from School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, performed a heated discussion together with Australian guests on molecular imaging, image processing and other hot topics.  

Department of Nuclear Medicine of Renji Hospital have been maintaining long-term friendly cooperative relationships with research team of Academician David Dagan Feng from the University of Sydney in the context of joint research alliance between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Sydney. They have jointly published 5 SCI or EI papers, and applied an international cooperation project from Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. Australian research team have also sent long-stay researchers to guide and carry out image processing-related researches in Department of Nuclear Medicine of the hospital in 2007, 2009, 2015, respectively. The team from Department of Nuclear Medicine of our hospital has also frequently performed academic exchanges in the visiting team of Jiao Tong University or School of Medicine to the University of Sydney. In April 2015, Department of Nuclear Medicine of our hospital have also successfully organized the first forum of molecular imaging of Shanghai Jiao Tong University with Academician Feng from the University of Sydney, which laid a good foundation for depth of joint research alliance between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Sydney.  

Academician David Dagan Feng is the director of the Department of Computer Science and dean of the School of the Information Technology and vice president of Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney. He also served as academic director of SJTU-USyd (Shanghai Jiao Tong University- University of Sydney) Joint Research Alliance. SJTU-USyd Joint Research Alliance will hold the official signing ceremony for two universities union at the University of Sydney and Shanghai Jiao Tong University respectively in October and November 2015. This time Academician Feng special trip to visit Department of Nuclear Medicine of our hospital, is hoping that both sides can further depth research and clinical translation of image processing and molecular imaging in the basis of long-term cooperation. It would establish an example for cooperation model of SJTU-USyd Joint Research Alliance and promote international exchanges and cooperation of Department of Nuclear Medicine of Renji Hospital on a new level. (Translator Weiwei Zhang)