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The Society for Molecular Imaging is pleased to announce that the Young Investigators Award Selection Committee reviewed all submissions and selected the following three finalists: Shimon Gross, Emmet McCormack, and Klara Stefflova.

T. Budinger announces YIA results as K. Stefflova, E. McCormack, and S. Gross (left-to-right) look on.

Each of the finalists gave a 20-minute oral presentation during Saturday afternoon's Young Investigator Awards Abstract Session. After reviewing the oral presentations the Committee agreed that all three should share first-place. Thus, each of the finalists received a plaque and a grant of $1,000.

Finalist abstract titles and author blocks (in alphabetical order and order of presentation) follow:

Continuous Delivery of D-Luciferin by Implanted Micro-Osmotic Pumps Enables True Real-Time Bioluminescence Imaging of Luciferase Activity In Vivo
Shimon Gross, Ute Abraham, Julie Prior, Erik Herzog, David Piwnica-Worms, Washington University, St. Louis, USA. Contact e-mail: grosss@mir.wustl.edu

Multimodality In Vivo Optical Imaging of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML): Auto-Fluorescence De-Noising, Fluorophore Quantification and Localisation
Emmet McCormack¹, David Micklem², Lars-Erik Pinard¹, Pascal Gallant³, Alexandre Belenkov³, James Lorens², Bjørn Tore Gjertsen¹, ¹Insitute for Internal Medicine, Bergen, Norway; ²Insitute of Biomedicine, Bergen, Norway; 3ART- Advanced Research Technologies, Quebec, Canada. Contact e-mail: emmet.mc.cormack@med.uib.no

Targeted Photodynamic Therapy Agent with a Built-in Apoptosis Sensor for In Vivo Near-infrared Imaging of Tumor Apoptosis Triggered by its Photosensitization In Situ
Klara Stefflova¹, Juan Chen², Hui Li², Gang Zheng², ¹Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; ²Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Contact e-mail: stefflok@sas.upenn.edu

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The competition was open to scientists at the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, resident, and fellow levels working in Molecular Imaging research in academia, industry, or research institutions. Applicants must have had no more than the equivalent of five years’ full-time postdoctoral or post-residency molecular imaging research, as documented by a curriculum vitae and letter of confirmation from their Program Director, Advisor, or Chairman.

Applicants submitted manuscripts directly to the Society’s journal, Molecular Imaging as well as an abstract on the topic of this research for the Fifth Annual Meeting. The manuscript could not have been submitted elsewhere prior to the submission deadline. Manuscripts previously submitted to Molecular Imaging, but not yet published,
were also eligible for consideration.

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