News

"University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University recently celebrated a major milestone: more than 40 years of groundbreaking collaboration in radiology among the institutions and Siemens Healthineers."

Amit Gupta, MBBS, MD, Associate Professor, Radiology, University Hospitals and CWRU, was recently interviewed by Cleveland Channel 19 as part of a news piece on using AI to improve lung cancer outcomes, discussing UH collaboration with Qure.AI.

Supported by a $3.27 million, five-year NCI grant, Zheng-Rong Lu, PhD, the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU, and colleague Li Lily Wang, Cleveland Clinic and CWRU School of Medicine, are developing targeted vaccines for pancreatic cancer that could eliminate the disease.

Recently, the RadiCLE program at University Hospitals received its first development grant from the National Science Foundation. Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt, MD, PhD, Vice Chair of Innovation, Radiology, and the UH RadiCLE initiative will work with UH Radiology industry partner, SegMedix.

Prerna Singh, CWRU MD/PhD student in the Wilson lab, was selected in the Top Two for the SCCT Young Investigator Award and will present "Low-density Coronary Calcium Below The Agatston Threshold On CT Calcium Scoring Independently Predicts MACE Risk: Insights From CLARIFY And SCOT-HEART" at the SCCT conference, July 17-20.

Christina MacAskill, CWRU MD/PhD student in the Flask lab, recently shared her research on Fox 8 New Day Cleveland, discussing the use of Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting to improve outcomes for patients with Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD) and breast cancer.

Tenesha Connor, first-year graduate student in the Yildirim lab, received the best poster award in the Immunity and Therapeutics section as well as Overall Best Poster Award at the 8th Annual Thomas Bell Lecture at Cleveland State University. Tenesha also received a Mary B Stark Travel Award from the Lerner Research Institute.

Congratulations to Charlems Alvarez-Jimenez, PhD, on receiving a PhRMA Foundation Fellowship in Translational Medicine for her work developing novel AI models for rectal cancer patients. Dr. Alvarez-Jimenez is a postdoctoral researcher in the INVent Lab led by Satish Viswanath, PhD.

Congratulations to Murat Yildirim, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Department at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, who received the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Jumpstart Award. With this grant, he will develop optical brain-machine interface for glioblastoma.

Congratulations to Robert "Chip" Gilkeson, MD, Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, on receiving the UH Department of Radiology Alumni Award, presented at the 33rd Annual Theodore J. Castele Lecture in May 2025.