British Medical Journal

Paganelli spends much time trying to convince
companies to invest in the work.He also registered
more patents recently – not for personal gain, “but
because they are necessary to convince firms of
commercial value.”
Elsewhere there have been gloomy reports on
prospects – in the US, federal cuts in 2006 led to
“many important scientific projects relatedtonuclear
medicine being abandoned”, according to the Society
ofNuclearMedicine. In theUKin 2003 nuclear
medicine was said to be “close to collapse” – the
country had just four PET scanners at the time,
according to the British Medical Journal, and there