# Andrei Iagaru

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## TL;DR

A Stanford nuclear medicine professor who led the division for a decade and has published widely on new PET tracers, from FAPI scans of fibrosis-related proteins to whole-body PET scanners that image the entire body at once.

## Summary

Andrei Iagaru joined Stanford in 2007 and served as Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging from 2016 (co-chief from 2011); Stanford's faculty listing as of September 2026 names Erin Grady as interim division chief, indicating a leadership transition, while Iagaru continues as Professor of Radiology. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers spanning 68Ga-PSMA-11 and 18F-DCFPyL PET for prostate cancer, gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) imaging, and fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) PET.

He has been a prominent voice in the debate over whether FAPI PET will replace FDG PET in oncologic staging, arguing for a complementary rather than replacement role, and is active in total-body and long-axial-field-of-view PET research and international PET/MRI consensus guideline efforts with EANM, SNMMI and ISMRM.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: PSMA; FAPI; total-body PET; clinician
- Role: Professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine), Stanford University Medical Center (formerly Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2016-2026; Stanford's faculty page as of September 2026 lists Erin Grady, MD, as Interim Division Chief)
- Specialisms: FAPI PET; total-body and long-axial-field-of-view PET; PSMA PET

## Sources

- Stanford Profiles: https://cap.stanford.edu/profiles/frdActionServlet?choiceId=printerprofile&profileversion=full&profileId=8156
- Stanford Nuclear Medicine faculty page: https://med.stanford.edu/nuclearmedicine/people/faculty.html

## Connected records

- technologies: [FAPI PET](https://nuclide.cc/technologies/fapi-pet/), [PET/MRI](https://nuclide.cc/technologies/pet-mri/)
- drugs: [Gallium-68 gozetotide (PSMA-11)](https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ga68-psma-11/)
- isotopes: [Fluorine-18](https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/f-18/), [Gallium-68](https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ga-68/)

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