Moritz Kircher, Neal Paragas, Brian Zeglis pictured with Robert Gillies. Moritz Kircher won the Young Investigator Award Competition at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in the Dublin Convention Center, Ireland, September 5th to 8th 2012. Photograph by Brendan Lyon/ImageBureau
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 2012 Young Investigator Award
Winner: Moritz Kircher – “A Triple-Modality MRI-Photoacoustic-Raman Nanoparticle for pre-and intraoperative Brain Tumor Delineation”
Finalist: Neal Paragas – “The Kidney Defends the Urinary System from Infection by Secreting NGAL”
Finalist: Brian M. Zeglis – “A Pre-Targeted 64Cu-PET Imaging Methodology based on the huA33 Antibody and Inverse Electron Demand Diels-Alder Click Chemistry”
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 2012 Student Travel Stipend Award Recipients
ASIA
Hyla Allouche-Arnon, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, BrainWatch Ltd.
Reut Avni, Weizmann Institute of Science
Chih-lung Chen, Industrial Technology Research Institute
Hui-Yen Chuang, National Yang-Ming University
Taemun Chung, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Jaeho Jang, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Kyung-Ho Jung, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University
HyunKyung Jung, Kyungpook National University
Dong-Yeon Kim, Chonnam National University Medical School, Dongguk University
Guen Bae Ko, Seoul National University
Dong Hoon Lee, Yonsei University
Ho Won Lee, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University
Hyeyoung Moon, Korea Science Institute, University of Science and Technology
Hyun Jeong Oh, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Masaki Sano, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
Myung Geun Song, Cancer Research Institute, Cancer Research Institute
Jie Tian, Institute of Automation, CAS
Cheng-Han Tsai, National Yang-Ming University
Darya Tsvirkun, Hadassah University Hospital
Moriel Vandsburger, Weizmann Institute of Science
Yabin Wang, Dept. of Cardiology, Xijing Hospital Fourth Military Medical University
Renhua Wu, Shantou University
Lin Xie, National Institute of Radiological Sciences
Jingjing Zhang, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
AUSTRALIA
Katie Ardipradja, Baker IDI, Austin Hospital
Frederic Boisson, ANSTO
Andre Kyme, University of Sydney, University of Sydney
Xiaowei Wang, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute
EUROPE
Wael Al Rawashdeh, RWTH Aachen University
Yannick Berker, RWTH Aachen University Hospital
Oscar Brouwer, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Leiden University Medical Center
Tessa Buckle, LUMC, NKI-AvL
Salvador Castaneda, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Solène Collet, CNRS, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, CEA
Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont, CERVOxy,
Brigit denAdel, Leiden University Medical Center
Antoine D’Hollander, KU Leuven, Imec
Matthias D’huyvetter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgian Nuclear Research Center, SCKCEN
Mathew Divine, University of Tuebingen
Michel Eisenblaetter, University Hospital of Muenster, King’s College London
Kristina Fischer, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Kerstin Fuchs, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Christoph Griessinger, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Hugo Groult, CNIC (Centro Nacional de investigacion cardiovascular), CIBERES (Ciber de enfermedades respiratorias )
James Guggenheim, University of Birmingham
Anna Haslop, Imperial College London, GSK
Irina Heid, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universitat Munchen
Md. Mosaddek Hossain, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Jabadurai Jayapaul, University Clinics, RWTH Aachen University, University of Heidelberg
Ramzi Khamis, Imperial College London,
Max Kiugel, University of Turku
Patrick Koczera, RWTH Aachen University
Susanne Kossatz, Jena University Hospital – Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Dominik Krueger, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Joseph Lewis, University of Manchester
Yun Lin, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Heinrich Magometschnigg, Medical University Vienna
Moritz Mahling, University of Tuebingen
Julia Mannheim, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Marianne Mertens, RWTH Aachen University
Axel Montagne, INSERM UMR-S 919
Stanley Fokong Nyongamsen, RWTH Aachen University
Alexander O’Neill, Kings College London
Leonie Paulis, Eindhoven University of Technology
Karine Pinel, Centre de Résonance Magnétique des Systèmes Biologiques
Gaia Rizzo, University of Padova
Anne Roivainen, University of Turku
Anna-Maria Rolle, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Boudewijn Schaafsma, Leiden University Medical Center
Andreas Schmid, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Julia Schmitt, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Jennifer Schmitz, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Jonna Silén, University of Turku, Turku University Hospital
Anniina Snellman, University of Turku
Lucas Starmans, Eindhoven University of Technology
Zhangjie Su, University of Manchester
Greetje Vande Velde, KU Leuven
Sjoerd van Rijn, VU University Medical Center
Floris Verbeek, Leiden University Medical Centre
Mattia Veronese, Padova University
Michael Walker, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Hans Wehrl, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
Jennifer Williams, King’s College London
Timothy Witney, Imperial College London
Bang-Wen Xie, Leiden University Medical Center
Bastian Zinnhardt, University of Muenster
Frederic Zoller, DKFZ, University Hospital Heidelberg
NORTH AMERICA
Celina Ansari, Stanford University
Yonathan Araya, Western University
Sean Arlauckas, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Beck, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Deepak Behera, Stanford University School of Medicine
Brittany Berry-Pusey, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Bieniosek, Stanford University
Nrusingh Biswal, Baylor College of Medicine
Sarah Bohndiek, Stanford University
Laura Bronsart, Stanford University
Jeff Bulte, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Myriam Chaumeil, University of California, San Francisco
Howard Chen, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Yun-Chen Chiang, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Veronica Clavijo Jordan , Arizona State University
Gladys Completo, University of California, Los Angeles
David Cormode, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Prasanta Dutta, Moffitt Cancer Center
Veronica Estrella, Moffitt Cancer Center
Ellis Garai, Stanford University
Ansel Hillmer, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Ruimin Huang, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Amanda Shanks Huynh, Moffitt Cancer Center
Rehana Ismail, University of California, Los Angeles
Yolaine Jeune-Smith, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Lu Jiang, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ziyue Karen Jiang, University of California, Los Angeles
Jesse Jokerst, Stanford University
Aman Khurana, Stanford University
Scott Knowles, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Yu Kuang, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jinbo Li, Stanford University, Nanjing University
Xiaoxiao Ma, University of California, Los Angeles
Manogna Manne, University of California, Los Angeles
Bowen Meng, Stanford University
Aneta Mieszawska, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Valerie Moberg, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Karlos Moreno, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Ekaterina Morgounova, University of Minnesota
David Morse, Moffitt Cancer Center
Hossein Nejadnik, Stanford University
Maarten Otten, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute
Guillem Pratx, Stanford University
Emeline Ribot, Robarts Research Institute
Laura Sasportas, Stanford University
Thillai Sekar, Stanford University
Mikhail Shapiro, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley
Dean Sherry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT at Dallas
Adam Shuhendler, Stanford University
Bryan Smith, Stanford University
Metasebya Solomon, Washington University in Saint Louis
Joo Ho Tai, Robarts Research Institute, Western University
Jun Tang, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Richard Tavar‚ University of California, Los Angeles
Kenneth Tichauer, Dartmouth College
Dominique Van de Sompel, Stanford University
Marta Vilalta, Stanford University School of Medicine
Dustin Wooten, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Brian Zeglis, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Kirstin Zettlitz, University of California, Los Angeles
Guihua Zhai, UAB
Poster Awards
All abstract submissions that are accepted as posters are eligible for a poster award. Poster award recipients will be based upon the abstract grade and ranking.
WMIC 2012 Poster Award Recipients
Sarah Cheal
Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont
Daniela Delli Castelli
Michael Dobosz
Michel Eisenblaetter
Marlitt Erbe
Marc-Andre Fortin
Masafumi Furuta
Susan Hoppmann
Ruimin Huang
Yolaine Jeune-Smith
Christian Kesenheimer
Chase Kessinger
Joong Hyun Kim
James Knight
Sijumon Kunjachan
Francois Lassailly
Moritz Mahling
Mark Milne
Robert Miyaoka
Axel Montagne
Hyeyoung Moon
Ji Ho Park
Ralph Pflanzer
Silvia Rizzitelli
Nina Schwenzer
Adam Shuhendler
Moriel Vandsburger
Laurent Vinet
Christiane Wenk
Jennifer Williams