Join us on Wednesday 6 May for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Simon Cherry, who joined our Faculty in 2025 as Professor of Total Body Imaging in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences.

As a new member of our community, Professor Cherry will deliver a lecture to showcase his inspiring career journey.

Doors for this event will open at 16.45, with the lecture commencing at 17.00. A drinks reception will be held immediately after the lecture at 18:00.

Registration closes at 12am on the Sunday before the lecture as King’s Venues require a list of all attendees, particularly those external to King’s 48 hours in advance of the event. If you are a member of staff wishing to attend after registration has closed, please just email communicationsunit@kcl.ac.uk to let us know.

Professor Simon Cherry

Seeing is believing: Imaging the entire human body in one second

Abstract

This presentation will start in the anatomy theatres of the 1600s and give some historical context for the development of advanced modern medical imaging technologies.  This leads into the story of our 15 year-long project to develop a medical imaging system that can capture an image of the entire human body in as little as one second. The impact of this new total-body imaging technology on patients, as well as its use for biomedical research, will also be discussed.

Biography

Simon Cherry received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics with Astronomy from University College London in 1986 and a PhD. in Medical Physics from the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London in 1989.  Simon moved to the USA in 1990 and has been a faculty member first at UCLA and then at UC Davis. In 2025 he joined King’s College London as Professor of Total-Body Imaging.

Simon’s research interests centre around biomedical imaging with a focus on positron emission tomography (PET). He is a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and has received several awards including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Cassen Prize. Simon is the author of more than 300 papers and lead author of the widely-used textbook “Physics in Nuclear Medicine”.