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SMI Achievement Award

Once a year, Society members are asked to vote for an Achievment Award recipient from a list of candidates that have been nominated by the Council and Nominating Committee. This award is given to an individual who has made a fundamental discovery in the field of Molecular Imaging that has changed the direction of the field, or enabled new in vivo investigations that were not possible prior to their contribution.

Recipients include:

• 2002 - Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA
• 2003 - Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, Charlestown, MA USA
• 2004 - Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
• 2005 - David Piwnica-Worms, MD, PhD, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO USA
  
• 2006 - Christopher H. Contag, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
• 2007 - Michael J. Welch, PhD, Washington University, St. Louis, MO USA
• 2008 - Britton Chance, PhD, ScD (Cantab.), MD (Hon), University of Pennsylvania and the National University of Singapore
• 2009 - Roger Tsien, PhD, University of California, San Diego