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The  CCIR Trainee Council recently welcomed alumnae, Drs. Sherry Huang, Nadia Ayat, and Wei-Ching (Tina) Lo, who shared highlights from their career journeys and offered guidance on how to effectively leverage the skills acquired during a PhD program to enhance success as an industry professional.

Prerna Singh, an MD/PhD student in the lab of David Wilson, PhD, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship (F30) from the NHLBI. Her research project is titled, "Cardiovascular risk prediction from small, low-density calcifications detected on CT calcium score exams".

Tenesha Connor received two poster awards, one from KSU and one from Case CCC. Fred Bell received a poster award and Kemal Ozdemirli received the best trainee abstract and gave an oral talk at the Case CCC Annual Retreat. In addition, Dr. Murat Yildirim was awarded an American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Discovery Grant.

Congratulations to Ari Blitz, MD, Professor, and Daniel Herzka, PhD, Associate Professor, in the CWRU/UH Dept. of Radiology, on this recognition!

Lighthanded Enterprises and Visano Theranostics will participate in the Fourth Cohort of JumpStart’s Trailblazer HealthTech Accelerator, a program supporting pre-seed and seed-stage startups that are solving real-world problems in the health care industry with their innovative technologies.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Sunshine, MD, PhD, VP and CMIO, University Hospitals (UH) and Exec. Vice Chair, Radiology, UH and CWRU, and Amit Gupta, MBBS, MD, Associate Prof., Radiology, UH and CWRU, on this recognition!

The vision of CCIR is to lead the next generation of transformative imaging research that will radically improve disease prevention, diagnosis and therapy. A recent BME Newsletter article highlights work by CCIR’s multidisciplinary investigators to combat prostate cancer.

Shuo Li, PhD, Leonard Case, Jr. Professor in Engineering, CWRU, has been elected a fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). “I’m honored to join IAMBE and deeply grateful to my colleagues, collaborators and students,” said Li.

Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt, MD, PhD, Vice Chair of Innovation, Radiology, and leader of the UH RadiCLE initiative, was recently interviewed by the Frame by Frame podcast.

Zheng-Rong Lu, PhD, the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU, was recently named an ISMRM Fellow “for outstanding and pioneering work in small targeted contrast agents MRI that enables clinical translatable high-resolution molecular MRI of cancer."