Multiple MIPS members recognized at 2023 SNMMI meeting
Several MIPS faculty and trainees received key recognitions and awards at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging held June 24-27, 2023 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL, USA.
Congratulations to all!
- Helen Nadel, MD inducted as the next SNMMI President.
- Andrei Iagaru, MD named an SNMMI Fellow.
- Craig Levin, PhD received an inaugural Mars Shot Fund award.
- Israt Alam, PhD received the Mitzi & William Blahd, MD, Pilot Research Grant
- MIPS trainees (in bold) received the 2023 Alavi-Mandell Award in recognition of their stand-out 2022 publications in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Heying Duan, PhD along with Lucia Baratto, Richard E. Fan, Simon John Christoph Soerensen, Tie Liang, Benjamin Inbeh Chung, Alan Eih Chih Thong, Harcharan Gill, Christian Kunder, Tanya Stoyanova, Mirabela Rusu, Andreas M. Loening, Pejman Ghanouni, Guido A. Davidzon, Farshad Moradi, Geoffrey A. Sonn, and Andrei Iagaru. Correlation of 68Ga-RM2 PET with Postsurgery Histopathology Findings in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Intermediate- or High-Risk Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1829–1835
- Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, PhD along with Muhammad Nasir Ullah and Craig S. Levin. Advances in Detector Instrumentation for PET. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1138–1144
- Katherine L. Lucot, PhD along with Marc Y. Stevens, T. Adam Bonham, E. Carmen Azevedo, Aisling M. Chaney, Ebony D. Webber, Poorva Jain, Jessica L. Klockow, Isaac M. Jackson, Mackenzie L. Carlson, Edward E. Graves, Thomas J. Montine, and Michelle L. James. Tracking Innate Immune Activation in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease Using TREM1 and TSPO PET Tracers. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1570-1578
- Hong Song, MD, PhD with Andrei Iagaru, and Steven P. Rowe. 18F-DCFPyL PET Acquisition, Interpretation, and Reporting: Suggestions After Food and Drug Administration Approval. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:855–859
- Quan Zhou, PhD along with Nynke S. van den Berg, Wenying Kang, Jacqueline Pei, Naoki Nishio, Stan van Keulen, Myrthe A. Engelen, Yu-Jin Lee, Marisa Hom, Johana C.M. Vega Leonel, Zachary Hart, Hannes Vogel, Romain Cayrol, Brock A. Martin, Mark Roesner, Glenn Shields, Natalie Lui, Melanie Hayden Gephart, Roan C. Raymundo, Grace Yi, Monica Granucci, Gerald A. Grant, Gordon Li, and Eben L. Rosenthal. Factors for Differential Outcome Across Cancers in Clinical Molecule-Targeted Fluorescence Imaging. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1693–1700
- Heying Duan, PhD along with Lucia Baratto, Richard E. Fan, Simon John Christoph Soerensen, Tie Liang, Benjamin Inbeh Chung, Alan Eih Chih Thong, Harcharan Gill, Christian Kunder, Tanya Stoyanova, Mirabela Rusu, Andreas M. Loening, Pejman Ghanouni, Guido A. Davidzon, Farshad Moradi, Geoffrey A. Sonn, and Andrei Iagaru. Correlation of 68Ga-RM2 PET with Postsurgery Histopathology Findings in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Intermediate- or High-Risk Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med 2022; 63:1829–1835
- Mausam Kalita, PhD interviewed by SNMMI TV for his oral presentation entitled "Development and initial evaluation of a novel 11C-labeled PET tracer to image GPR84 expressing-myeloid cells during neuroinflammation", which was also highlighted in the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences/Molecular Imaging/CMIIT Basic Science Summary Session.