Participating Institutions

NTeMBI has brought together institutions to address all aspects of the value chain (basic research, radiochemistry and radiopharmacy, pre-clinical and clinical work and commercialization aspects, where applicable) for each of the projects listed below. Consortium Agreements are currently being finalized.

Project title	Institution	Department
Development and assessment of metal containing drugs for cancer treatment using radiolabelling
	Mintek	AuTEK Biomed
	Necsa	Radiochemistry
	PET Labs
	University of Cape Town	Chemistry
	University of the Free State	Chemistry; Animal Research Centre; Medical Physics
	University of KwaZulu Natal	Chemistry
Imaging and therapy for cancer and other diseases using radioisotopes of rhenium and technetium compounds linked to biologically active molecules	Engelbrecht Incorporated
	Necsa	Radiochemistry
	Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University	Chemistry
	PET Labs
	University of the Free State	Chemistry; Animal Research Centre; Medical Physics, Nuclear Medicine
Imaging as a tool in the development of drug delivery systems and new drugs –especially for tuberculosis	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
	Medical Research Council (MRC)	Tuberculosis (TB) Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
	Necsa	Radiochemistry
	North West University (NWU)	Pharmaceutics
	University of Pretoria (UP)	Nuclear Medicine
	University of Limpopo (UL)	Nuclear Medicine
	University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)	Nuclear Medicine

Imaging as a tool in developing new diagnostics and drugs for infection – especially for tuberculosis	iThemba LABS
	Necsa		Radiochemistry
	PET Labs
	University of KwaZulu Natal		Chemistry
	Medical Research Council (MRC)		Clinical And Biomedical Tuberculosis Research Unit; TB Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
	University of Pretoria (UP)		Nuclear Medicine; Biomedical Research Centre (UPBRC)
	University of Stellenbosch (US)		Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Biology and Human Genetics
Imaging brain receptors using radiolabelled compounds		iThemba LABS
		Medical Research Council		Primate Unit
		Necsa		Radiochemistry
		North West University (NWU)		Pharmacology
		PET Labs
		University of Cape Town (UCT)		Psychiatry, Physics
		University of Stellenbosch (US)		Cape Universities Brain Imaging Centre (CUBIC); Nuclear Medicine
The use of radiolabelled receptor site targeting compounds for early detection and therapy of cancer		iThemba LABS
		Necsa		Radiochemistry
		University of Cape Town (UCT)		Medical Biochemistry
		University of Stellenbosch (US)		Nuclear Medicine

Assessment of natural products for disease prevention and therapy using labelling	iThemba LABS
	Necsa	Radiochemistry
	University of Cape Town	Chemistry; Medical Biochemistry
	International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)
	University of Pretoria	Phytomedicine Programme
	Medical Research Council
Imaging biomarkers using radiolabels	BioSequences
	Centre for Proteomic and Genomic Research
	Necsa	Radiochemistry
	North West University (NWU)	Metabolomics
	University of Pretoria (UP)	Nuclear Medicine
Assessing the Sterile Insect Technique for Malaria Mosquitoes in a South African Setting	iThemba LABS
	National Institute for Communicable Diseases/NHLS	Vector Control Reference Unit
	Necsa	Research and Development
	Medical Research Council (MRC)	Malaria Unit
	South African Malaria Initiative (SAMI)
Radiosensitivity in breast cancer	iThemba LABS
	University of the Witwatersrand	Medical Physics