Dr. Chao Ma, Instructor at the MGH Gordon Center, was recently named Junior Fellow by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). The award is a recognition of “outstanding researchers at an early stage in their careers.” Dr. Ma will collaborate with his ISMRM mentor for a year to further his research in ultrahigh-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopic […]
Month: September 2016
SNMMI First Place Poster
Congratulations to Vasily Belov, PhD who won the First Place Poster of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for his “PET Study of Burn-Induced Tissue-Specific Insulin Resistance.” His work demonstrated the primary role of impaired glucose uptake in skeletal muscles, specifically in the development of systemic insulin resistance after burn injury in a mouse […]
ImmunoPET: Engineered Antibody Fragments for Imaging Tumors and Immune Responses
Anna M. Wu, Ph.D. is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA. She was the guest speaker at a lecture organized by the MGH Gordon Center. Below is her presentation summary. Engineered antibody fragments can provide a versatile platform for non-invasive imaging of cells and tissues based on cell […]
American Association of Physicists in Medicine Award
Congratulations to Quanzheng Li, PhD and Kyungsang Kim, PhD, who won the Low Dose CT Grand Challenge, hosted by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Their algorithm achieved the best diagnostic performance on common low-dose patient CT datasets, among the participating teams from 26 countries. They presented their work and were presented the […]
Seminar: Synthesis of Metal Complexes to Assist in Diagnosis and Therapy
Dr. Paul Donnelly, from The University of Melbourne in Australia, is conducting research to develop molecular agents that can be used in the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s. In a conference organized by the MGH Gordon Center, Dr. Donnelly presented his effort to synthesize copper and technetium complexes that can bind Aβ plaques associated with […]