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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."

CWRU BME PhD student Tom DeSilvio has been named a Crain's Cleveland Business "20 in their 20s" honoree. Tom is studying how AI can help clinicians better treat patients diagnosed with colorectal cancers. He is mentored by Satish Viswanath, PhD.

"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.