About
As we approach the 50th year of organized meetings about radiopharmaceutical chemistry/sciences, it is important to maintain our history and memory of the founding members of this organization. Ever present from the beginning, Dr. Michael J. Welch’s legacy on the SRS is one of fostering talent and mentoring an entire generation of radiochemists, which is a field he helped invent. Mike’s legacy lives in many radiopharmaceutical chemists whom he has trained and who are now leading figures in the field. The SRS-Hot Atom Fund seeks to honor his passion and tenacity by supporting the first-ever comprehensive campaign to establish an annual grants and awards program within the SRS. To learn more about the SRS-Hot Atom Fund, visit srshotatomfund.com.
Goals
Radiopharmaceutical Science is a growing field that has brought major contributions to patient care, particularly in the last two decades. Many cancer and neurology patients benefit from tracers that have made their way to the clinic and have proven instrumental to patient care. This growth means we need to train future scientists in our field. This new generation of scientists will be instrumental in the treatment and outcomes of patients. It is imperative that we ensure their development and training all over the world.
The SRS serves as a networking platform that brings experts together in all aspects of radiopharmaceutical sciences. In the future, the endowment may be able to support small grants to encourage the initiation of new research by young investigators.
How you can support
The Hot Atom Fund has received over $500,000 in pledged donations — an important milestone in the fund’s development and one which inspires us to believe that fund will only continue to grow and be the means to providing much support to early career researchers.
This fund is permanently endowed. Endowed gifts provide security over the long term by expanding the Foundation’s permanent financial base and creating a predictable source of future income for the awards provided. The base amount provided by you will be invested in perpetuity and those investment earnings will be utilized to fund awards.
To give to the SRS-Hot Atom Fund, click the button below
Giving Circles
*Early campaign donors who gave $10,000 and above are designated as Founders of this campaign.
We are deeply grateful for lead gifts to this important campaign from inception to December 19, 2022.
The 2022 end-of-year, 72-hour pledge/donation campaign raised over $40,000 in contributions.
Thank you to all of our generous patrons.
Hot ATM Circle ($100,000+)
The Dr. Michael J. Welch Foundation*
Alpha Beta Gamma Circle ($50,000 +)
The Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences*
Marc Berridge*
Radiotracer Circle ($10,000 - 49,999)
Carolyn Anderson & W. Barry Edwards*
Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen*
Cathy Cutler*
Gregory Ehret*
Michael Haka*
John Katzenellenbogen*
Suzanne Lapi & Jon McConathy*
Jason Lewis*
Karen Linder*
Robert Mach*
Jeffrey Reimers*
Sally Schwarz*
Julie Sutcliffe*
Lesley Tomlin*
Henry VanBrocklin*
Neil Vasdev & Smita Jacob*
Wynn Volkert*
Colin & Susan Welch*
Halogen Circle ($5,000 – 9,999)
Dustin Demoin & Alex Dopp
Mark & Else Goodman
Klaus Kopka
Serge Lyashchenko
Victor Pike
Roger Schibli
Jörg Steinbach
Albert D. Windhorst
Positron Circle ($1,000 - 4,999)
Anonymous
Thomas Bonasera
Yearn Seong Choe
Peter Conti
Dae Yoon Chi
Yasuhisa Fujibayashi
Shozo Furumoto
Jae Min Jeong
Silvia Jurisson
Kenneth Krohn
Yuji Kuge
Charles Manning
Charles Metzger
Michael Nickels
Alan Packard
Theresa Pinkham
Buck Rogers
Thomas Ruth
Peter Scott
Peggy Squires
Xiankai Sun
Fan Wang
Pamela Woodard
Metal Circle ($500 - 999)
Timothy DeGrado
Heather Hennkens
John Lister -James
Bernadette Marquez -Nostra
NagaVaraKishore Pillarsetty
NagaVaraKishore Pillarsetty
Danielle Vugts
Wolfgang Wadsak
Ava Welch
Colin Welch, Jr.
Payton Welch
Young Investigator’s Circle ($100 - 499)
Anu Airaksinen
Samuel Achilefu
Shaima Anam
Rezwan Ashique
Patrick Bokolo
Anthony DeGraffenreid
Melissa Deri
Paul Donnelly
Paul Ellison
Jonathan Engle
Robert Flavell
Cristiana Gameiro
Rebecca Hoerres
Robin Ippisch
Orit Jacobson
Ritin Kamboj
Sharon Lee
Songye Li
Fabio Luiz Navarro Marques
Linda Metz johnson
Henry Mok
Linjing Mu
Nabeel Nabulsi
Kiel Neumann
Bernt Nordin
Giancarlo Pascali
Verena Pichler
Caterina Ramogida
Andrew Rose
Adam Rosenberg
Raffaella Rossin
Hideo Saji
Madhushan Serasinghe
Sean Tanzey
Ruta Urbanaviciute
Jean-Luc Vanderheyden
Amy Vavere
Chrysoula Vraka
Betty Wiens
Hua Zhang
Friends of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences (Up to $100)
Adam Dix
Yulia Rozen
