Marty Pomper has a unique view of who he is:  “a product of the space race, the Civil Rights Movement and public education.” Obviously, that directly leads to becoming the Director of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Co-leader of Cancer Molecular Imaging at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the “Most-influential Radiology Researcher of 2022” according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.  Ok, there might have been a few steps in between, such as developing the first small-molecule imaging agents targeting PSMA, and the first radiometalated agents to fight prostate cancer. Then he went on a twenty-year entrepreneurial journey to widely propagate their use in clinics for patients. That perseverance has also really helped Marty as an inveterate Chicago Cubs fan.  Lastly, Marty is an expert at “delivering reasonably interesting talks,” during which he dresses “slightly better than the audience” (check slide 8 of his talk).

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