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The Society for Molecular Imaging provided travel support for the attendance of 72 students, postdoctoral and clinical trainees to present abstracts at the Fifth Annual Meeting. Travel stipend awards in the amount of $500 were awarded to qualifying trainees. For the 2007 Molecular Imaging Joint Conference, 150 grants will be made available for meritorious student travel awards!

Some of the stipend awardees were photographed at our closing gala event; some had to return home before we could photograph them.

List of Awardees

Jean-François Adam, Lawson Health Research Institute (LHRI) and Robarts Research Institute (RRI), Brain Perfusion Measurements using a High Speed Flat Panel Small Animal Volumetric CT Scanner (VCT): Reproducibility and High-Grade Glioma Functional Studies
Sohn Joo Ahn, Department of Nuclear medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Increased 99mTc-MIBI Accumulation in mdr1 gene Induced Cancer Cell after the Transduced with shRNA for mdr1 gene
Mathieu Allard, Hospital for Sick Children, Combined Magnetic Resonance and Bioluminescence Imaging of Live Mice
Raj Ambay, University of Wisconsin, Multi-Modal Evaluation of ¹²⁴I-NM404 in Orthotopic Rat Glioma Model
Vardan Amirbekian, Johns Hopkins U. School of Medicine - Mt. Sinai School of Med. Imaging Science Laboratories, Association Between Plaque Macrophage Content and MRI Enhancement of Atherosclerosis Using Immunomicelles Molecularly Specific for Marophage Scavenger Receptor.
Sunder Balasubramanian, University of Missouri-Columbia, Instrumentation and Calibration of a Fluorescence Molecular Tomography System for Multimodality Fusion Imaging
Brad Barnett, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Restoration of Normoglycemia in Diabetic Mice with MR-Visible Magnetocapsules Immunoprotecting Murine Beta Cells
Ambros Beer, Technische Universitaet Munich, Molecular Imaging of alpha-v-beta-3 Expression in Breast Cancer Patients with [¹⁸F]Galacto-RGD and PET: Biodistribution, Pharmacokinetics and Feasibility for Primary Staging
Hyo-eun C. Bhang, Johns Hopkins University, Multi-modality Imaging of the Targeted Migration of Human Papillomavirus 16 E7-Specific Lymphocytes
Mark Borden, University of California at Davis, Radiation Force Gated Adhesion of Targeted Ultrasound Contrast Agents
Weibo Cai, Stanford University, In Vivo Tumor Targeting and Imaging Using Radio-Labeled Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Claudia Calcagno, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Comparison of CT/FDG-PET and multi-contrast/dynamic MRI in the carotid arteries of patients with cardiovascular disease: Evaluation of plaque composition and dynamics.
Catherine Chapon, Stem Cell Imaging, Assessment of Intrauterine Transplantation of Human Fetal Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Murine Model of osteogenesis imperfecta using Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 9.4T.
Fabien Chaveau, CEA, MicroPET evaluation of new tracers for neuroinflammation imaging
Antony Chen, University of Pennsylvania, Delineating the Evolution of Cancer Using Quantitative Molecular Beacons
Junjie Chen, Washington University in St. Louis, Specific Detection of Molecular Binding for v3-integrin Targeted Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles to Angiogenesis in K14-HPV Mouse by 19F Diffusion Weighted MRI/MRS
Yongdoo Choi, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Protease-mediated Near-infrared Fluorescence Tumor Imaging and Therapy
Hak Soo Choi, Beth Israel Deconess Hospital, Renally-Cleared Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging
Julia Coppola, University of Michigan, Imaging of Apoptosis in Live Cells and Animals
Hagit Dafni, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Double- and Single-Step Imaging of Metabolically-Biotinylated and Avidin-Fused Cell Surface Receptors
Purnima Dubey, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Tracking CD8+ T cell Localization and Function Using Bioluminescent Imaging
Seth Gammon, Washington University, Rational Design of a Single Chain Biosensor Utilizing D-Luciferin for Imaging Executioner Caspase Activity
Yongjun Gao, Johns Hopkins University, A New Series of 3-Pyridyl Ether Analogs of A-85380 for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Carl Gazdzinski, Robarts Research Institute, Bridging the Gap Between Pre-Clinical and Clinical Cellular MRI with a Novel Insertable Head Gradient Coil Design
Shimon Gross, Washington University, Bioluminescence Imaging of Curcumin-Induced IKK Inhibition in Colon Carcinoma
Björn Gustafsson, University of California, Davis, A New Dual-Modality MRI/PET Probe Targeted to Atherosclerotic Plaques
Keith B. Hartman, Rice University, Gd³⁺-filled Ultra-short Carbon Nanotubes as High-performance pH-sensitive MR Contrast Agents
Chia-Hung Hsieh, National Yang-Ming University, Generation of Destabilized Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 Thymidine Kinase as Transcription Reporter for PET Reporter System in Genetic Imaging
Ruimin Huang, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Imaging Notch Signaling Pathway Activity in Transgenic Animals
Valerie Humblet, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Multimeric Near-Infrared Fluorescent Small Molecules for Imaging of Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen
Johanna Jackson, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imaging Implanted Bone Marrow-derived Stem Cells in a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease: a PET and MRI study
Eric Kaijzel, Leiden University Medical Center, Prolonged in vivo Gene Silencing by Electroporation-mediated Plasmid Delivery of siRNA.
Dorota A. Kedziorek, Johns Hopkins University, Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of Feridex-labeled Neural Stem Cells
Aparna Kesarwala, Washington University School of Medicine, Dynamic Analysis of Ligand-Induced EGFR Processing and Regulation by Real-Time Bioluminescence Imaging
Jan Klohs, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Non-Invasive Near-Infrared Fluorescence (NIRF) Imaging of Stroke-Induced Brain Inflammation in the Mouse
Kenneth M. Kozloff, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Simultaneous Monitoring of Bone Formation and Resorption Using Near Infrared Optical Imaging Agents
Brian A. Larsen, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering - University of Colorado, Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Ovarian Carcinoma Cells Using Superparamagnetic Immunomicelles
Adi Laser, Tel Aviv University, Molecular Imaging of Met and Actin in HGF/SF-Induced Membrane Ruffles Formation and Cell Migration
Sheen-Woo Lee, Stanford University, Imaging Things Painful with Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MEMRI).
Cong Li, Johns Hopkins University, Multimodality Image Guided Enzyme Based Pro-drug Cancer Therapy
Ken Lin, Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, SMAD4 Increases Tumor Vascular Density and Complexity in a Mouse Model of Orthotopic Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
Christina Liu, Massachusetts General Hospital, A Novel MR Contrast Probe that Reports Amphetamine-induced Cerebral Gene Transcription in vivo
Andreas M. Loening, Stanford University, Renilla Luciferase Variants with Green Emission Peaks for Improved Imaging in Living Subjects
Jody Major, Northwestern University, Modulating Water Access to Lanthanide Chelates: The Synthesis and Testing of a Zinc-Activated MRI Contrast Agent
Jan Marik, University of California, Davis, Synthesis of ¹⁸F radiolabeled lipid and examples of its application
Joseph Mocanu, University of Toronto, Imaging the Modulation of Kinetics and Biodistribution of Adenoviral Vectors for Cancer Gene Therapy
Sharon Moshkovitz, Van Andel Research Institute, Met-Induced Tumoregenesis and Metastasis Molecular Imaging Signature
Jessica Newton, University of Missouri, Two-Step Targeting of Multivalent Bacteriophage for Tumor Imaging
Ashvin N. Pande, Massachusetts General Hospital, Specific Imaging of Macrophages in Experimental Atherosclerosis Using a Highly Derivatized Magnetofluorescent Nanoparticle
Thorsten Persigehl, University of Muenster, Early prognosis of anti-angiogenic treatment efficacy by iron oxide enhanced MRI
John Ronald, Robarts Resesarch Institute, Molecular imaging of myeloperoxidase activity in rabbit atherosclerotic plaques
Leif Schroeder, LBNL; UC Berkeley, High-Sensitive Molecular Imaging Using a Functionalized Xenon Biosensor
Inna Serganova, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Bioluminescence imaging of HIF-1α stabilization
Mukund Seshadri, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Multimodality Imaging of Vasculature In Vivo
Yen-Yu Shih, National Taiwan University, Dynamic Mapping of Amphetamine Stimulated Response by a Novel USPIO MR Contrast Agent
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