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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.

Congratulations to Eduardo Correia, MD, PhD, on receiving the UH Department of Radiology Hiro Fujita Award, which is awarded to a Radiology Research Fellow and was presented at the 33rd Annual Theodore J. Castele Lecture in May 2025.

Thomas DeSilvio, a fifth-year PhD student in the lab of Satish Viswanath, PhD, received the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) to support his PhD research in developing and validating an MRI-based AI tool to identify which patients respond to total neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancers.

Madison Albert, first-year PhD student in the lab of Will Grissom, PhD, recently received the highly-competitive NSF GRFP award for research on modeling and optimizing RF pulses for MRI. Her work aims to improve diagnostic image quality and support MRI guided interventions by optimizing these inputs to the MRI system.

Jack Xia, undergraduate student in the lab of Dr. Agata Exner, received "The Gheorghe and Claudia Mateescu Award for Research in Imaging for outstanding research contribution in the area of biomedical imaging", an award in the CWRU Dept. of BME.