Young Investigator Award Winner
Young Investigator Award semi-finalists were selected based on abstract score. Then, representatives from our YIA Awards Committee attended each semi-finalist’s talks and scored their presentation. The three finalists presented during our special YIA Session, after which the committee announced the $3,000 award winner. Our WMIC 2010 YIA Winner was Leonie Wyffels, of the University of Arizona.
WMIC 2010 YIA Winner was Leonie Wyffels, of the University of Arizona.
Student Travel Stipend Award Winners
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.
From North America:
Yoshitomo Ashitate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Karam Badran, University of California, San Diego
Benjamin Bartelle, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine
Marc Bartels, Baylor College of Medicine
Geron Bindseil, University of Western Ontario
Ning Cao, Purdue University
Rosalinda Castaneda, University of California, San Francisco
Wenxue Chen, Baylor College of Medicine
Choi-Fong Cho, University of Western Ontario
Nirupama Deshpande, Stanford University
Joyita Dutta, University of Southern California
Joseph Flores, University of British Columbia
Anita Gianella, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Archontis Giannakidis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hao Hong, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Susan Hoppmann, Stanford University
Amanda ShanksHuynh, Moffitt Cancer Center
Marytheresa Ifediba, Massachusetts General Hospital
Michelle James, Stanford University
Peter Jarzyna, Imaging Science Laboratories
Jesse Jokerst, Stanford University
Pei Yuin Keng, University of California Los Angeles
Gabriela Kramer-Marek, NCI/NIH
Tianyi Krupka, Case Western Reserve University
Virendra Kumar, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Peder Larson, University of California, San Francisco
Xin Lin, National Institutes of Health
Shuanglong Liu, Stanford University
Bo Liu, Purdue University
Christiane Mallett, Robarts Research Institute
Katelyn McCabe, UCLA
Marites Melancon, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yanfeng Meng, University of Washington
Makoto Mitsunaga, National Institute of Health
Michel Paquette,Université de Sherbrooke
Abhay Patil, University of Virginia
David Pham, UCSF
Éric Poulin, Université de Sherbrooke
Guillem Pratx, Stanford University
Nicolas Salem, Case Western Reserve University
Madhuri Sankaranarayanapillai, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Yen-Yu Shih, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
Lyne Sleiman, University Ottawa Heart Institute
Bryan Smith, Stanford University
Metasebya Solomon, Washington University
Conroy Sun,Stanford University
James Thackeray, University Ottawa Heart Institute
Ryan Tomlinson, Washington University
Pablo Valdes, Dartmouth College
Leonie Wyffels, University of Arizona
Jin Xie, NIBIB
Hsin-Hsien Yeh, MD Anderson Cancer Center
From Asia:
Sung Jun Ahn, Yonsei University, College of Medicine
Sayaka Asari, Jichi Medical University
Juri Chae, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Ya-Fang Chang, National Yang-Ming University
Ko-Ting Chao, Chang Gung University
Chiao-Chi Chen, Academia Sinica
Shih-Hsun Cheng, National TsingHua University, Taiwan
Yu-Jung Chiang, Chang Gung University
Ye Lim Cho, YOnsei University College of Medicine
Ari Chong, Chonnam National University Hospital
Chian-Yi Chung, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science
Ajit Dale, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine
Weiwei Fan, Xijing Hospital
GuangHui Gao, Sungkyunkwan University
Sungwook Gu, Kyungpook national university
Chia-Ju Hiseh, Chang Gung University
Tao Huang, Medical Imaging Center
Bingsheng Huang, The University of Hong Kong
Hsiang-Ling Huang, Chang Gung University
Masamichi Ikawa, University of Fukui
Yong Hyun Jeon, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University
Hye-youn Jung, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Choong Mo Kang, Samsung Medical Center
Hao-Wen Kao, National Yang-Ming University
Jeong-Yeon Kim, Dongguk Univ International Hospital
Young-Hwa Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine
SeungHoo Kim, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Dong-Yeon Kim, Chonnam National University Medical School
Uyenchi Le, Chonnam National University Medical School
HwaJeong Lee, Chonnam National University Medical School
Ho Won Lee, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University
Shuang Li, Xijing Hospital
Yi Li, Sungkyunkwan University
Jieming Liang, The University of Hong Kong
YuChun Lin, ChangGung Memorial Hospital
Yi-Yu Lin, National Yang-Ming University
Yu-Jen Lin, Chang Gung University
Yu-Jung Lin, China Medical University
Ting Liu, Sichuan University
Junting Liu, Institute of Automation,CAS
Kai Liu, Institute of Automation,CAS
Shan-Wen Liu, National TsingHua University
Hyeyoung Moon, Korea Basic Science Institute
Daihi Oushiki, The University of Tokyo
Darpan Pandya, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine
Feng-FengT ian, Okayama University
Hieu Vu-Quang, Chonnam National University Medical School
Kai Wang, National University,Korea
Po-Hsun Wang, National Tsing Hua University
Chi-Chang Weng, Chang Gung University
Chenxi Wu, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
EunJi Yang, Kyungpook National University
Haitao Zhu, The University of Tokyo
From Europe:
Israt Alam, University of Cambridge
Reut Avni, Weizmann Institute of Science
Tegest Aychek, Weizmann Institute of Science
Sven Biederer, University of Luebeck
Saskia Bjoern, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Katrin Büther, University Hospital Münster
Marco Dominietto, ETHZ
Rebecca Dumont, University of Freiburg
Susan Evans, Lund University
Kristina Fischer, Univerity of Tuebingen
Pierre-Yves Fortin, Laboratory for Molecular and Functional Imaging
Robert Fowler, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Céline Giraudeau, NeuroSpin
Marleen Keyaerts, VUB
Madryn Lake, Imperial College London
Eddy Lee, University of Queensland
Zhe Liu, Helmholtz Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Renata Madru, Lunds University
Florian Maier, Werner Siemens-Foundation
Abraham Martin, CEA
Reinhard Meier, Technical University Munich
Marta Michalska, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
Laura Moliner Martinez, IFIC
Anne-Sophie Montcuquet, CEA Grenoble
Sune Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
Morten Persson, University of Copenhagen
Steven Proulx, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Tal Raz, Weizmann Institute of Science
Amir Rosenthal, Helmholtz Zentrum München
Ehud Segal, Tel Aviv University
Sebastien Serres, University of Oxford
Jonna Sinkkonen, University of Turku
Andrei Todica, University of Munich
Greetje Vande Velde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Hans Wehrl, University of Tuebingen
Natalie Yivgi-Ohana, Weizmann Institute of Science
Eight stipend applicants received additional support made possible by a grant from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).