Group leader

Professor Tim Witney

Professor of Molecular Imaging & Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London

Email: tim.witney@kcl.ac.uk

research experience

2024 - Present

Professor of Molecular Imaging, King’s College London

2021 - Present

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Reader in Molecular Imaging, King’s College London.

2018 - Present

Honorary Associate Professor, University College London.

Head, Molecular Imaging Lab in KCL’s Department of Imaging Chemistry and Biology.

2018 - 2021

Sir Henry Dale Fellow, King’s College London.

Senior Lecturer, King’s College London.

2015 - 2018

Sir Henry Dale Fellow, University College London.

University College London Excellence Fellow.

Head, Molecular Imaging at UCL's Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging.  

2013 - 2015

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Gambhir Lab, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Stanford University, USA.

2010 - 2013

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Comprehensive Cancer Imaging Centre, Imperial College London, UK.

2006 - 2010

PhD CASE Studentship, Brindle Group, University of Cambridge, UK.

Honours and awards

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s Alavi-Mandell Publication Award 2015

In recognition of outstanding contributions to the field from young scientists who have published (as first authors) original articles in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Young Investigator Award finalist, European Molecular Imaging Meeting 2015

"Imaging tumor glycolysis downstream of hexokinase through noninvasive measurement of pyruvate kinase M2".

Medicinal Chemistry Communications top journal article of the year, 2013

L. Carroll, T.H. Witney & E.O. Aboagye (2013). Design and synthesis of novel 18F-radiolabelled glucosamine derivatives for cancer imaging.  Med Chem Commun 4, pp.653-656. 

PubLications

Publication list available here.