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Tim Witney

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Professor of Molecular Imaging & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow @KingsCollegeLondon | Biochemist | Developing new methods to detect cancer, therapy response & drug resistance

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Dec 17

🚨Out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Nature Communications: Imaging NRF2 activation in non-small cell lung cancer with positron emission tomography🍾

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this paper, we show that [18F]FSPG-PET imaging is a sensitive marker of NRF2/KEAP1 activating mutations...

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have some BIG NEWS to share today!

Today I begin my next adventure as

Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!

(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Aug 1

The community is very fortunate to have an editor like you Rita.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you’d like to join me on this journey, NBME is hiring!! This is a fantastically rewarding career that keeps you very much in science. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering Organization: Nature Portfolio Location: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai or Beijing – Hybrid Working Closing date: August 20, 2025 ...

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is really sad. I’m sorry it is happening, and particularly sorry it is happening to you and your lab.

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you for all your support. 🙏🏻

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jul 10

Let’s go!

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Jul 3

the zoomers have rebranded vacation

What is a micro-retirement? Inside the latest Gen Z trend (Fast Company)
Gen Z is rethinking retirement—by taking it in mini doses. The rising trend of *micro-retirements* means career professionals are
pressing pause for 1-2 weeks every year to avoid burnout and boost well-being. While it's gaining traction (even among non-Gen Z workers), experts warn these breaks could come with long-term financial and career tradeoffs. Is unplugging worth the risk? Here's what to consider before booking your
"someday" now.

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jul 3

You’re great at it too. Keep going from success to success. Up the foxes!

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jun 29

This is the only one I’m a pedant about. It’s annoying to some, confusing to others, and oddly satisfying for me to write. ;-)

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jun 27

It was a pleasure to obscure your view and awkwardly say how much I liked your work. Or at least say incorrectly how I *used* to like you work. 😬😅😂

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jun 26

Amazing recording of dead ringers tonight, with added comedy bonus @rosieisaholt.bsky.social photobombing us!

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jun 25

Doing something for the first time is painful. After 7 years, my daughter still can’t hold her knife and fork properly. But if you keep at it, the effort pays off.

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Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · Jun 10

Check out our latest study on Pd-cages for dual-modality imaging including cool MS analysis and fancy in ovo PET imaging, doi.org/10.1039/D5QI...
Congrats to Marike Drexler, Luisa Ronga, Ioannis Kanavos, @gmalcantar.bsky.social Daniela Kraus @timwitney.bsky.social! EIC Pathfinder #SMARTdrugs

Design of porous self-assembled homoleptic and heteroleptic Pd2+ cages incorporating silicon-based fluoride acceptors: the way towards nuclear imaging applications

Supramolecular self-assembly is a promising tool to develop multifunctional theranostic agents and has recently entered the field of radiochemistry. In this work, lantern-shaped [Pd2L4]4+ metallacages...

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · Jun 10

Huge congratulations Marike!

Guillermo Moreno-Alcántar @gmalcantar.bsky.social · Jun 10

Marike's shiny new paper is out!! she's a PhD student of @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social. Her work about the incorporation of fluorine radiopharmaceuticals within metallacages is now available in @inorgchemfront.rsc.org. Congrats to all the authors! @timwitney.bsky.social
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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 28

Couldn’t agree more. But they are killing us academics here in the UK. Such an easy win. What are Labour thinking!?

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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · May 22

Big pharma and investors are piling into the precision radiation space as the next generation of increasingly potent targeted α-particle therapies promises to destroy cancerous cells with minimum damage to healthy tissues nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs - Nature Biotechnology

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 22

That’s a turn up for the books! #inspirationalmessage #lifegoals

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 20

Great advertising at our local beauty clinic

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Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social · May 19

Extremely honoured to have our work on supramolecular radiopharmaceuticals highlighted in the latest news in Nature Biotechnology!!! Thank you to the EIC Pathfinder SMARTdrugs @timwitney.bsky.social @hollandlab.bsky.social Alex Poot (UMCU) @cicbiogune.bsky.social Jordi Llop ! rdcu.be/emCW6

Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs

Nature Biotechnology - Big pharma and investors are piling into the precision radiation space as the next generation of increasingly potent targeted α-particle therapies promises to destroy...

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Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 14

Simon Cherry sticking it to the man by negotiating his own tariff reduction for total body PET. Awesome keynote @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social symposium. 🙏🏻

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 14

Cancer research speed dating over lunch at our TME, imaging and translation symposium @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social. The room was buzzing.

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Cancer Research UK City of London Centre @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social · May 14

Over lunch at our TME, Imaging and Translation Symposium we hosted a 'speed dating' session mixing TME experts with imaging specialists and challenging them to help us set the course for this research theme at our Centre. Ably chaired by @timwitney.bsky.social 📯, we look forward to some great ideas!

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 14

Amazing imaging data presented at the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social this morning at our TME, imaging and translational symposium. 😍

Tim Witney @timwitney.bsky.social · May 14

All ready for the @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social TME, Imaging and Translation Symposium today!