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Past CVC Young Investigator Award Winners
Xuezhu Wang1, Bowei Liu2, Chao Ren2, Zhenghai Huang2, Haiyan Ding2, Hui Zhang3, Yajuan Gao1, Xiao Li1, Yining Wang1, Zhuang Tian, Jian Li1, Xiang Li5, Li Huo5
Basic science – First place tie between 2 abstracts
Maday Fernandez Mayola1, Annika Hess2, Laura Langer, Michael Willmann4, Frank Bengel5, Tobias Ross6, James Thackeray7
Kelsey Lolatte1, Mirjam Brackhan2, Annika Hess3, Pablo Bascuñana Almarcha2, Michael Willmann4, Tobias Ross1, Frank Bengel5, Jens Pahnke, James Thackeray7
1st place: Felicitas J. Detmer, PhD
"Imaging of mitochondrial function in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity"
2nd place: Benjamin Wilk
"Myocardial glucose suppression interferes with the detection of inflammatory cells with FDG-PET in a canine model of myocardial infarction"
3rd place: Zhao Liu, PhD
"Assessment of lower extremities flow using dynamic Rb-82 PET: Acquisition protocols and quantification methods"
1st place: Ananya Singh, MS
"Improved risk assessment of myocardial SPECT using deep learning: report from REFINE SPECT registry"
Presenting Author:
2nd place: Sarah Boughdad, MD, PhD
"68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT to detect immune checkpoint inhibitor-related myocarditis".
3rd place: Xuezhu Wang
"Dynamic analysis of 11C-PIB PET/CT in amyloid light-chain cardiac amyloidosis"
2017 CVC YIA Winners
Basic Science
1st Place - Rudolf A. Werner - "Vesicular storage and release of the novel sympathetic nerve tracer 18F-LMI1195."
2nd Place - Raiyan Tripti Zaman - " Harnessing Radioluminescence and Sound to Reveal Molecular Pathology of Atherosclerotic Plaques."
3rd Place - Jens P. Bankstahl - "Multi-tracer characterization of ischemic inflammation and perfusion in a murine model of hindlimb ischemia."
Clinical Science
1st Place - Takashi Norikane - "Comparative evaluation of F-18 FLT PET/CT and F-18 FDG PET/CT in patients with newly diagnosed thoracic sarcoidosis."
2nd Place - Ishan Garg - "3-D PYP Score for 3-hour uptake 99mTc Pyrophosphate SPECT-CT for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy."
3rd Place - Simon A. Castro - "Common Carotid Artery Molecular Calcification Assessed by 18F-NaF PET/CT is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Results from the CAM
2016 CVC YIA Winners
1st Place - Christopher England - "Radiolabeled long circulating nanoparticles for re-assessing the enhanced permeability and retention effect in peripheral arterial disease."
2nd Place - Yoann Petibon - "Impact of MR-based PET motion correction on the quantification of PET kinetic parameters in simultaneous cardiac PET-MR."
3rd Place - Carols Perez-Mendia- "Multimodal PET imaging of high-density lipoprotein's trafficking in multiple atherosclerosis models."
Clinical Science
1st Place - Thorston Derlin - "Imaging ruptured coronary atherosclerotic plaques by use of CXCR4-targeted, motion corrected PET/CT."
2nd Place - Ines Valenta - "PET-Measured Longitudinal Flow Gradient Correlates with Invasive Fractional Flow Reserve in CAD."
3rd Place - Xiang Li - "Combined 18F-FDG PET/CT and 18F-NaF PET/CT imaging in assessing vascular inflammation and osteogenesis in calcified atherosclerotic lesions."
Basic Science
1st Place - Junaid Afzal - "Dual isotope SPECT-CT imaging using sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) reveals improved energetics following cardiac transplantation of stem cells encapsulated in hydrogels."
2nd Place - Rudolf Werner - "Serial assessment of myocardial inflammation in a rat model of experimental myocarditis by PET."
3rd Place - Yunan Yang - "64-Cu-NOTA-YY146: A first-in-class for PET imaging of peripheral artery disease."
Clinical Science
1st Place - Christopher Rischpler - "18F-FDG uptake postischemic myocardium: relevance as a prognostic marker for functiional recovery."
2nd Place - Seung-Pyo Lee - "Diagnostic and Prognostic Implication of 11C-Pittsburgh B Positron Emission Tomography in AL Cardiac Amyloidosis."
3rd Place - Axel Van Der Gucht - "99mTc HMDP myocardial scintigraphy is predictive of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with transthyretin-type (TTR) amyloidosis."
Basic Science
1st Place - Reza Golestani - "MMP imaging to predict aortic aneurysm rupture"
2nd Place - Xingyu Nie - "A study on progression of hypoxic atherosclerotic plaque in a mouse model using [64Cu]ATSM"
3rd Place - Johanna Silvola - "Detection of atherosclerotic plaques with a novel vascular adhesion protein-1 targeting [18F]FDR-Siglec-9 peptide"
Clinical Science
1st Place - Nishant Shah - "Prognostic value of PET-derived coronary flow reserve for survival in patients with dialysis-dependent end-stage renal disease"
2nd Place - Ibrahim Danad - "Quantitative cardiac PET imaging for diagnosis of hemodynamic significant epicardial disease"
3rd Place - Mischa Rijnierse - "Impaired cardiac sympathetic innervation is associated with microvascular dysfunction in non-infarcted myocardium in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy"