After years of medical advancements, we're still no closer to the holy grail that is a cure for cancer, and while some cancers are thankfully treatable, the treatments themselves can often cause side effects such as fatigue, nausea or hair loss.

Innovations in radioactive imaging could help us prescribe medications based on an individual patient's condition.

Jie Tang, a PhD researcher, will go through her innovative research in imaging sciences to show we cancers could soon be cured on a patient by patient basis, and how we could spare healthy body parts from the harshness of cancer tretement.

Jie will also touch on what it takes to be a disruptor in the life sciences, and how creative thinking is a necessary skill in being able to combat the fight against cancer.

Jie Tang is a first-year PhD student from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Science & Medicine at King’s College London, funded by EPSRC CDT in Smart Medical Imaging Program. Her current research focuses on Integrating PET Imaging and Drug Delivery System to Improve Radiotherapy. In the future, she wishes to participate in translational medicine.

The Festival of Disruptive Thinking showcases how disruptive thinking and innovative ideas can challenge the status quo and create better and bolder solutions in any sector, industry or discipline.

From stem cell TikTok to Nicolas Cage as a cybersecurity icon, from shipping container biotech labs to how to sue for climate action, from inclusive innovation and decolonising universities.

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