WMIC 2009 Award Winners

Award Winner 2009

Young Investigator Award Winner Patrick Goodwill (3rd from left)

Young Investigator Awards

WMIC sponsors an annual Young Investigator Award contest. Three finalists are selected to present their talks during the final plenary session.

WMIC 2009 Young Investigator Award 

Winner:
Patrick Goodwill, UC Berkeley, CA USA – “Direct Imaging of SPIOs in Mice using Magnetic Particle Imaging: Instrument Construction and 3d Imaging”

Finalist:
Seog-Young Kim
, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, South Korea – “Early Assessment of Treatment Response to Gefitinib Using Kinetic Analysis of 3′-deoxy-3′-[18F]Fluorothymidine PET in a Xenograft Model”

Finalist:
Florian Stuker, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland – “Dual Modality Imaging System for Simultaneous MRI and FMT Measurements: Technical Realization and Feasibility”

 

Student Travel Stipend Awards
Travel stipend award winners were blindly selected based on abstract score. Each of these travel award winners is to be commended for contributing quality research content to this year’s World Molecular Imaging Congress.

WMIC 2009 Student Travel Stipend Award Recipients

North America
Dian Arifin, Johns Hopkins University
Yoshitomo Ashitate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Benjamin Bartelle, Skirball Institute for Bimolecular Medicine
Melanie Bergeron, Université de Sherbrooke
Yang Cao, University of California Los Angeles
Suelin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wenxue Chen, Baylor College of Medicine
Antony Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Jennifer Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
Hak Soo Choi, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Julie Chouinard, Université de Sherbrooke
David Cormode, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Wenjin Cui, University of California, San Diego
Cynthia Davies-Venn, University of Texas Health Science Center
Sarah Detombe, Robarts Research Institute
Katie Dinelle, University of British Columbia
Louis Dore-Savard, Universite de Sherbrooke
Ryan Gessner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Summer Gibbs-Strauss, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Olivier Girard, University of California, San Diego
Patrick Goodwill, University of California, Berkeley
Dorit Granot, Yale University, School of Medicine
Hilary Hancock, National Institutes of Health
Jelena Levi, Stanford University
Jered Haun, Massachusetts General Hospital
Bryan Hoang, University of Toronto
Simon Hu, University of California, San Francisco
Branislava Janic, Henry Ford Health System
Lei Jiang, Stanford University
James Johnson, Washington University School of Medicine
Samata Kakkad, Johns Hopkins University
Vania Kenanova, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Kimura, Stanford University
Virenda Kumar, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Inst.
Gitte Knudsen, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Yu Kuang, University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Pier-Anne Lachance, University of Texas Health science center
Rachel Laing, University of California, Los Angeles
Helen Lee, University of Toronto
Seulki Lee, Stanford University School of Medicine
Changqing Li, University of California Davis
Hongguang Liu, Stanford University
Tracy Liu, University of Toronto
Su-Tang Lo, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jonathan Lovell, University of Toronto
Scott Mackey, University of British Columbia
Sergey Magnitsky, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Manuel, Harry S Truman VA Hospital
Marites Melancon, UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mark Migueis, Lawson Health Research Institute
Britney Moss, Washington University
Alexander Nedopil, University of California, San Francisco
Thomas Ng, California Institute of Technology
Johanna Niers, Harvard Medical School
Mikako Ogawa, Molecular Imaging Program
Peter Panizzi, Massachusetts General Hospital
Hao Peng, Stanford University
Celeste Roney, National Institutes of Health
Vanessa Rota, University of Western Ontario
Nidhi Rumpal, Johns Hopkins University
Nicolas Salem, Case Western Reserve University
Lakshmi Sampath, Baylor College of Medicine
Jai Woong Seo, UC, Davis
Wei Sha, University of California, Los Angeles
Vipul Sheth, Case Western Reserve University
Annie Tang, Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Kenneth Tichauer, Lawson Health Research Institute
Damita Thomas, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Daniel Thorek, University of Pennsylvania
Jason Townson, University of  Western Ontario
Nadimpalli Ravi S Varma, Henry Ford Hospital
Ben Waghorn, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Wang, Stanford University School of Medicine
Katherine Watson, UC, Davis
Cristina Zavaleta, Stanford University

 

Asia
Pei-shan Hung, China Medical University
Yong Hyun Jeon, Kyungpook National University
Jiefu Jin, University of Hong Kong
Hyunhee Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Young-Hwa Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Daisuke Kokuryo, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Uyenchi Le, South Chonnam National University Medical School
Cheng- Hung Lee, China Medical University
Vu Hong Nguyen, Chonnam National University
Eun Kyung Park, Korea University Anam Hospital
Soo-Min Shon, Dongguk University
Hsin-Hsin Tsao, Chang Gung University
Takashi Ushiki, Kyoto University
Kezheng Wang, Harbin Medical University
Alexander Wu, Taiepi Medical University

 

Europe
Achraf Al Faraj, University of Lyon
Israt Alam, University of Cambridge
Nicolas Arlicot, University of Tours
Geetanjali Arora, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Joel Bertinshaw, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization
Amine Bessaad, University of Lyon
Tina Binderup, University of Copenhagen
Katrin Blum, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology
Jessica Bzyl, RWTH Aachen University
Liji Cao, German Cancer Research Center
Sebastien Couillard-Despres, Paracelsus Medical University
Mariska De Smet, Eindhoven University of Technology
Anke De Vries, Eindhoven University of Technology
Katerina Dikaiou, Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Michel Eisenblaetter, University Hospital of Muenster
Sara Figueiredo, University of Turin
Kerstin Fuchs, University of Tuebingen
Christoph Griessinger, Werner Siemens-Foundation
Jamal Guenoun, Erasmus MC
Johanna Haukkala, Turku University
Merlijn Hutteman, Leiden University Medical Center
Mette Munk Jensen, Copenhagen University
Vincent Keereman, Ghent University
Marleen Keyaerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Steffi Lehmann, University of Zurich
Wencke Lehnert, University of Sydney
Catherine Lichten, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh
Dario Longo, University of Turin
Florian Maier, Laboratory for Preclinical Imaging and Imaging Technology
Abraham Martin, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique
Reinhard Meier, Technical University of Munich
Sven Mieog, Leiden University Medical Center
Olga Millan, Institut d’Alta Tecnologia – PRBB
Anurag Mishra, Max-Planck- Institut für biologische Kybernetik
Sandra Perez-Rial, Fundación Jiménez Díaz
Yevgen Povrozin, Max-Planck- Institut für biologische Kybernetik
Steven Proulx, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Daniel Razansky, Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich
Veerle Reumers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Jennifer Richards, University of Edinburgh
Janine Ring, University of Muenster
Amir Rosenthal, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Svetlana Selivanova, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Michael Sørensen, Aarhus University Hospital
Florian Stuker, Institute for Biomedical Engineering
Greetje Vande Velde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Bert Vandeghinste, Ghent University
Hans Wehrl, University of Tuebingen,
Inneke Willekens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Catriona Wimberley, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization
Timothy Witney, University of Cambridge
Anna Yudina, Laboratory for Molecular and Functional Imaging