Irving Institute Announces 2018 Imaging Pilot Awardees
September 1, 2018
The Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, home to Columbia University’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program hub, announces the winners of the 2018 Imaging pilot awards.
The Imaging Pilot Award provides funding for junior investigators in the following areas: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), optical imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT), and ultrasound. The pilot awardees are:
- Patrick Carberry, PhD, Radiology: In Vivo µ-PET Tumor Imaging of Cancers that Overexpressed Peptide Transporters with the Use of a New [F-18]-Dipeptide Radioligand
- Shifali Dumeer, MD, Radiology: Agreement of Manual and Visual Estimation of Coronary Artery Calcium Score from Low-Dose CT in Oncologic PET/CT with Standard Agatston Score
- William Kreisl, MD, Neurology - Aging and Dementia: Validation of next-generation PET Ligands for TSPO in Mouse Models of Neuroinflammatory Diseases
- Martin Lan, MD, PhD, Psychiatry - Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology: [18F]DOPA PET Imaging to Elucidate the Role of Dopamine Signaling in the Antidepressant Mechanism of a Second Generation Antipsychotic
- Ray Lee, PhD, Psychiatry - Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology: Using Dyadic fMRI for Quantifying Parent-Child Brain-to-Brain Interaction in Austism Therapy