Since 2006 Phil Blower has been at King’s College London as Chair in Imaging Chemistry in the Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. As Head of the Imaging Chemistry and Biology Department he has built a large interdisciplinary research group with wide interests covering radiopharmaceutical chemistry and biology for PET, SPECT and radionuclide therapy, with a continuing focus on the contribution of inorganic chemistry from all parts of the periodic table to nuclear medicine.