The finalists for the Young Investigator Award 2020 were selected from the excellent abstract submissions:
...and the winner is: Sabiana Marciano from Tübingen - CONGRATULATIONS!
Recordings of YIA final are NOW available via your ESMI Member Portal!
PS 01 Imaging the Tumour Microenvironment
MMP-independent cancer cell invasion guided by tissue microchannels
Bettina Weigelin Tübingen Germany
PS 02 Microscopy, Optical Imaging, Near-Infrared & Raman Spectroscopy Technologies
Pre-Resonance hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering microscopy for monitoring Amphotericin B distribution
Konstantinos Mavrakis Heraklion Greece
PS 03 Late-breaking Pitches | Cancer
Human PD-L1 Nanobody For Immuno-PET Imaging: Radiolabeling Strategies Jessica
Bridoux Jette Belgium
PS 04 Imaging Infection
Multimodal imaging in experimental cerebral malaria reveals early stage accumulation of infected erythrocytes and altered brain perfusion
Patricia Wenk Magdeburg Germany
PS 05 PET Probes: New Tracers & Applications
Synthesis and radiochemistry with a water soluble, photoactive desferrioxamine derivative for one-pot conjugation and 89Zr-radiolabelling of proteins
Amaury Guillou Zurich Switzerland
PS 06 Imaging of Brain Receptors, Structure & Function
Cholinergic modulation of the default mode-like network in rats
Monica van den Berg Wilrijk Belgium
PS 07 Intra-Operative Imaging
A first-in-human study of multispectral endoscopy for delineation of adenoma in pituitary surgery
Dale Waterhouse Cambridge UK
PS 08 Imaging Metabolism
Combining 1H MRS and deuterium labeled glucose for mapping of neural metabolism in humans: pilot study
Abigail Cember Philadelphia USA
PS 09 Imaging Cancer Therapy
PET imaging of tumour cell death in vivo using [18F]FPenM-C2Am
Flaviu Bulat Cambridge UK
PS 10 Novel Optical, Acoustic & Optoacoustic
Probes Phase-change ultrasound contrast agents as a novel strategy for proton range verification
Bram Carlier Leuven Belgium
PS 11 MRI, MRS & Hyperpolarization Technologies
A multi spin echo pulse sequence with optimized excitation pulses and a 3D cone readout for hyperpolarized 13C imaging
Vencel Somai Cambridge UK
PS 12 Imaging of Cardiovascular
Disease Inflammation and fibrosis develop in parallel during pressure overload-induced heart failure and are alleviated by ventricular unloading: Insights from multimodality molecular imaging
Aylina Glasenapp Hannover Germany
PS 13 New Tools for Cancer Imaging
Repurposing 18F-FMISO for clinical PET/CT imaging of nitroreductase gene directed enzyme prodrug therapy
Elvira García de Jalón Bergen Norway
PS 14 MRI: New Probes & Applications
Novel quadrupolar peaks based contrast agents for monitoring tissue implants
Valeria Bitonto Torino Italy
PS 15 Late-breaking Pitches | Imaging Strategies
Season dependent auditory processing of innate vocalizations in a songbird model for seasonal adult neuroplasticity.
Elisabeth Jonckers Wilrijk Belgium
PS 16 Data Processing & Quantification
An advanced machine learning algorithm for the automated detection of tissue chromophores from Multi-spectral photoacoustic images
Valeria Grasso Amsterdam Netherlands
PS 17 PET, CT & Multimodal Imaging Technologies
Within-breath changes in small airway dimensions assessed in vivo by dynamic synchrotron radiation phase-contrast lung imaging in anesthetized rabbits with acute lung injury
Eva Solé Cruz Grenoble France
PS 18 Imaging Inflammatory Response
Unraveling the multifaceted in vivo fate of active-targeting nanomedicines
Alexandros Marios Sofias Aachen Germany
PS 19 Disease Models for Translational Neuroimaging
Non-invasive multimodal imaging of CSF-1R mediated microglia depletion after experimental stroke
Cristina Barca Münster Germany
PS 20 Imaging Cancer
Design of a bimodal ligand of neurotensin receptor 1 for 68Ga-PET imaging and fluorescence-guided surgery of pancreatic cancer
Aurélie Prignon Paris France
PS 21 Cancer Detection
Multispectral endoscopy for early detection of dysplasia in Barrett’s oesophagus (MuSE): a first-in-human pilot study
Dale Waterhouse Cambridge UK
PS 22 Multimodal Imaging Probes
PET/MRI contrast agents for measuring tumor extracellular pH
Alyssa Pollard Houston USA
PS 23 Novel Methods in Neuroimaging
Transcranial Ultrasound Localization Microscopy reveals sub-resolution blood dynamics in aneurysms and arterial malformations in the adult human brain
Charlie Demené Paris France
PS 24 Ultrasound & Opto-Acoustic Technologies
Aptamer-functionalized microbubbles: Ultrasound molecular imaging using an anti-P-selectin aptamer for imaging acute bowel inflammation.
Una Goncin Saskatoon Canada
PW01 New Tools for Cancer Imaging I
A dual click 18F-labeling strategy for pretargeted PET imaging of the tumor-targeting monoclonal antibody CC49 E.
Johanna Stéen Copenhagen Denmark
PW02 Understanding Tumour Biology
Simultaneous dual isotope PET-SPECT/CT imaging of a metastatic αvβ6 expressing syngeneic murine model of pancreatic cancer
Katie Dexter London UK
PW03 Imaging to Diagnose Cancer
[18F]AZD2461 for PET imaging of PARP
Florian Guibbal Oxford UK
PW04 Imaging Cancer Therapy I
Image-guided Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: Preliminary results
Ghadir Kalot La Tronche France
PW05 Disease Models - Translational Approaches in Neuroimaging I
Enhanced transhemispheric connectivity after cortical stroke in mice
Markus Aswendt Cologne Germany
PW06 New Methods & Methodology in Neuroimaging I
Pharmacologically-induced dynamic changes in connectivity assessed by functional ultrasound and automatic scoring in awake mice
Claire Rabut Paris France
PW07 Vascular Diseases
Assessing abdominal aortic aneurysm response to imatinib treatment using [18F]fluorothymidine positron emission tomography / computed tomography
Richa Gandhi Leeds UK
PW08 Imaging inflammatory response
FDG-PET of acute gastrointestinal Graft versus Host disease (GvHD): diagnostics and prediction of response to anti-inflammatory therapy
Wolfgang Roll Münster Germany
PW09 Multimodal/Multifunctional | Probe Chemistry
Wazaby platform for the development of bimodal probes and theranostic agents
Robin Lescure Dijon France
PW10 PET/SPECT, Radionuclide, X-Ray, CT I | Probe Chemistry
Room Temperature Al18F Labeling of 2-Aminomethylpiperidine-Based Chelators for PET Imaging
Lisa Russelli Munich Germany
PW11 SPECT, PET Technologies & Standardization
Performance of nanoScan PET/CT and PET/MRI and comparison of image derived quantifications with ex vivo tissue distribution in tumor bearing mice
Marion Chomet Amsterdam Netherlands
PW12 X-Ray Technology & Standardization
New statistical reconstruction method for quantitative imaging in preclinical studies: preliminary results
Cristobal Martinez Sanchez Leganes Spain
PW13 Ultrasound & Opto-Acoustic Technologies
Imaging breast malignancies with the second generation Twente photoacoustic mammoscope
Sjoukje Schoustra Enschede Netherlands
PW14 Data Processing & Quantification
Anatomically Informed Time-of-Flight PET Image Reconstruction with STIR Toolkit
Palak Wadhwa Leeds UK
PW15 New Tools for Cancer Imaging II
Multi-modal PET and MR imaging in the Hen’s egg test chorioallantoic membrane (HET-CAM) model for initial in vivo testing of target-specific radioligands
Gordon Winter Ulm Germany
PW16 Imaging Cancer Therapy II
Bleomycin plus ultrasound and microbubbles to treat feline oral squamous cell carcinoma, as a model for human head and neck cancer, preliminary results of the BUBBLEFISH Trial
Josanne Maar Utrecht Netherlands
PW17 Immuno-Oncology Imaging
68GaNOTA-anti-MMR-Nb for PET/CT assessment of protumorigenic macrophages in patients with solid tumors: preliminary results of a phase I clinical trial
Odrade Gondry Brussels Belgium
PW18 Brain: Structure , Function and Receptors
Longitudinal rs-fMRI study of functional alterations during demyelination and remyelination in the cuprizone murine model
Pedro Ramos-Cabrer San Sebastian Spain
PW19 Disease Models - Translational Approaches in Neuroimaging II
Stem cell induced functional network stabilization after cortical stroke: A longitudinal resting state fMRI study in mice
Mathias Hoehn Cologne Germany
PW20 New Methods & Methodology in Neuroimaging II
Preclinical evaluation of [11C]UCB-J for PET-imaging of synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A in mice
Maxime Schreurs Amsterdam Netherlands
PW21 Heart Diseases
Macrophage depletion impairs cardiac repair after acute myocardial infarction: Insights from multimodality molecular imaging in mice
Annika Hess Hannover Germany
PW22 Imaging Infection
Dose dependent luciferin boosts increase in vivo bioluminescence detection sensitivity at the early-onset of invasive aspergillosis in a murine infection model
Agustin Resendiz Sharpe Leuven Belgium
PW23 Intra-Operative Imaging
TSPO as an Actionable Imaging Biomarker: Development of Targeted Molecular Imaging Agents for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Optical Surgical Navigation of Pancreatic Cancer
Allison Cohen Nashville USA
PW24 Imaging Metabolism
Metabolic imaging-based subtype prediction in orthotopically transplanted murine pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Moritz Mayer Munich Germany
PW25 MRI | Probe Chemistry
Metal-doped iron oxide nanoparticles for positive contrast in MRI
Irene Fernández-Barahona Madrid Spain
PW26 PET/SPECT, Radionuclide, X-Ray, CT II| Probe Chemistry
Pharmacokinetics evaluation of new drugs with potential application in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Rossana Passannante Donostia Spain
PW27 Optical, Ultrasound, Photoacoustic | Probe Chemistry
Fluorescent peptide-based smartprobe for human neutrophil elastase
Maria Rodriguez Rios Edinburgh UK
PW28 MRI & MRS Technologies
Fast 3D Hyperpolarised 13C Metabolic MRI at 7 T using Spectrally-Selective bSSFP
Geoffrey Topping Munich Germany
PW29 Microscopy, Optical Imaging, Near-Infrared Imaging & Raman Spectroscopy Technologies
Cerenkov luminescence imaging in pulmonary and hepatic metastasectomy
Esther Ciarrocchi Pisa Italy
PW30 Multi-modal Technology
Developments A new method for the quantification of PET radiotracer Arterial Input Function in the Rat Carotid Artery
Mailyn Perez-Liva Paris France
Watch the official announcement of YIA winner 2020 by Adriaan Lammertsma:
The following AWARDS were presented within the scope of the vEMIM 2020:
Check dedicated EMIM 2020 sessions (on Friday) for Awards Presentations