June 25th, 2009 – AAA signed today a new collaboration agreement with the Marseille-based Université de la Mediterranée after winning the tender for the construction of a production and R&D laboratory in 2008. According to the agreement, AAA will act as a private company hosted in the CERIMED – European Centre for Research in Medical Imaging – premises for the production and sale of radiotracers in France and abroad. AAA will also become one of CERIMED’s privileged partners for the research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals, as well as for the commercial exploitation. The construction of the production and R&D site, which will host three radiopharmaceutical laboratories and two cyclotrons, should start in October 2010, and should be operational and ready for sales at the end of 2011. Headquartered in Marseille, CERIMED is a project aiming at a European centre of excellence for the development of molecular imaging technologies to promote a multidisciplinary community working in the field of medical imaging.