Molecular Imaging Center
The Molecular Imaging Center (CIM) at the University of Torino, directed by Silvio Aime, is a cross-disciplinary chemistry and life science lab. Our work at the CIM is to develop imaging probes that support preclinical research with focus in several life science areas. It was founded by a joined initiative of chemists, biologists and physicians approved by the Italian Ministry of University and Research in 2001.
Currently, the CIM is an international imaging science center equipped with state-of-the-art imaging instrumentations covering all the available imaging modalities as well as multimodality imaging.
Since 2016, it coordinates the activities of the Euro-BioImaging multi-sited "Multi-Modal Molecular Imaging Italian Node" (MMMI), which offers access to Molecular Imaging technologies and related services to national and trans-national reasearchers. Users can access our services at a discounted rate by applying at the Euro-BioImaging Web Access Portal. More info on the MMMI Node website.
Research Areas
News and Events
News
Euro-BioImaging
European
Commission launched the Euro-Bioimaging ERIC Italian Multi-sited Multi-Modal Molecular Imaging (MMMI) Node Candidate
COST Actions
COST Actions CA15209 - Eurelax"European Network on NMR Relaxometry"
COST Actions CA16103 - Parenchima
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarkers for Chronic Kidney Disease"
Ongoing Projects
CIM partecipates to the H2020 project GLINT aimed to investigate GlucoCESt imaging as a potentially disruptive new diagnostic tool.
CIM partecipates to the H2020 project Primo GAIA Prepolarized MRI at Earth Field to seek new contrasts linked to molecular events for very early detection of pathologies
In vitro and in vivo BNCT
investigations using a carborane containing sulfonamide
targeting CAIX epitopes on malignant pleural mesothelioma
and breast cancer cells. 
Imaging tumor acidosis: a survey
of the available techniques for mapping in vivo tumor pH.
Gadolinium presence, MRI
hyperintensities, and glucose uptake in the hypoperfused
rat brain after repeated administrations of gadodiamide.
Indocyanine Green
labeling for optical and photoacoustic imaging of
Mesenchymal Stem Cells after in vivo transplantation.
Efficient Route to Label
Mesenchymal Stromal Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles.
Metabolic Studies of Tumor Cells
Using [1-13 C] Pyruvate Hyperpolarized by
Means of PHIP-Side Arm Hydrogenation.
[Yb(AAZTA)(H2O)]-: an
unconventional ParaCEST MRI probe.
