Daniela-Elena Oprea-Lager

The Netherlands

Biography

Professor dr. Daniela-Elena Oprea-Lager, MD, PhD, is nuclear medicine phyisician at the Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is the chair of the Imaging Subcommittee Group ‘Bone & Oligometastases’ of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the Chair of the Foundation ‘PSMA Forum NL’, a multicenter, multidisciplinary platform for all PSMA users in the Netherlands. She is also a full-member of the ‘Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel’ within the European Association of Urology (EAU) and a member of the ‘Oncology & Theranostics’ committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM). From 2023, Daniela became the EANM’s liaison with the EAU and the EANM’s representative in the scientific committee of the European Multidisciplinary Congress on Urological Cancers (EMUC). Daniela began her specialization in Nuclear Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden and she completed this important step in 2009. She continued her carrier as nuclear medicine physician at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, firstly as a Fellow and, subsequently, from 2013, as a staff member. Due to her interest for Diagnostics and Therapy in Uro-Oncology, Daniela joined in 2024 the Radboud University Medical Center where she was appointed Professor Theranostics in 2025. Her research interests focus on implementation of new oncological diagnostic and therapeutic tracers in clinical practice, monitoring treatment effects and radioligand therapy in Uro-Oncology. In this frame, she played a conducive role in the granting of multiple projects, in which she also had a major personal involvement. Daniela authored more than 170 peer-reviewed Journal publications. Her prime ambition is to harmoniously combine patient care, scientific research and transferring her expertise to future generations of doctors.