Healthcare Academy

2026 Spectroscopy Workshop

May 9, 2026
Cape Town, South Africa

Join us in Cape Town, South Africa for the 2026 Spectroscopy Workshop, a focused scientific forum bringing together leading researchers and experts in MR spectroscopy. The program will explore advanced topics in MRS, MRSI, and multi‑nuclear spectroscopy (MNO/X‑nuclei), creating space for in‑depth discussion, collaborative knowledge exchange, and fresh perspectives on emerging techniques and innovations.

Date and time:
Saturday, May 9, 2026
12:00PM - 5:00PM

Venue:
Southern Sun The Cullinan, Room Protea 1 + 2 
1 Cullinan St, Cape Town City Centre 
Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa

Time

Topics

12:00 – 12:15

Welcome and introduction
Antoine Delattre-Klauser, Collaborations Manger, Switzerland, Siemens Healthineers;
Gerald Moran, Collaborations Manager, Canada, Siemens Healthineers

12:15 – 12:45

Multisite Single-Voxel MRS for Neurodegenerative Disease Trials
Gulin Öz, Professor, CMRR, University of Minnesota, 
United States 

12:45 – 13:15

Tales from the outskirts of clinical MRS
Roland Kreis, PhD, University of Bern, 
Switzerland 

13:15 – 13:45

Coffee break

13:45 – 14:15

Plug'n Play MRSI: An easy, reliable and fast MRSI package at 3 T and 7 T
Bernhard Strasser, PhD, Medical University of Vienna, 
Austria

14:15 – 14:45

Spectral Editing for MR Spectroscopic Imaging in Clinical Routine: Applications in Human Glioma
Guodong Weng, PhD, University of Bern, 
Switzerland

14:45 – 15:15

Multi-modal high-speed MRSI between 1.5 and 7 Tesla
Stefan Posse, PhD, University of New Mexico, 
Mexico 

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee break

15:45 – 16:15

Cardiac 31P MRS
Ladislav Valkovič, D.Sc. OCMR, University of Oxford,
United Kingdom

16:15 – 16:45

Multimodal imaging of hypoxia, metabolism and pH in feline sarcoma patients using hyperpolarized 13C MRI and PET 
Dr. Martin Grashei, PhD, Technical University of Munich, 
Germany

16:45 – 17:00

Closing remarks
Kera Westphal, Global Head MR Collaboration Management, Siemens Healthineers