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Cassen Award Recipients
Benedict Cassen Prize for Research in Molecular Imaging
(created in 1994 – awarded every other year)
The Cassen Prize honors Benedict Cassen, whose invention of the rectilinear radioisotope scanner—the first instrument capable of making an image of radiotracer distribution in body organs of living patients—was seminal to the development of clinical nuclear medicine. This award is funded through the Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
1994 Hal Anger
1996 David Kuhl, MD
1998 Henry N. Wagner, Jr, MD
2000 Gerald DeNardo, MD and Sally DeNardo, MD
2002 Michael E. Phelps, PhD
2004 Michael Welch, PhD
2006 Alexander Gottschalk, MD
2008 Mathew L. Thakur, Ph.D.
2010 Sung-Cheng (Henry) Huang, DSc
2012 Abass Alavi, MD and Steve Larson, MD
2014 Barry Siegel, MD
2016 H. William Strauss, MD
2018 Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD
2020 Peter S. Conti, MD, PhD