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A recent Bruker BioSpin “customer insight” article, “Imaging Serves as a Scientific Hub to Unite Preclinical and Clinical Research” highlights how Chris Flask, PhD, and his team are uniting preclinical and clinical research at the CWRU Center for Imaging Research (CCIR).

Pinunta (Petch) Nittayacharn first arrived at CWRU in 2016 to pursue a PhD in biomedical engineering with support from the Royal Thai Government Scholarship under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Upon graduating in 2022, she remained at the university and is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Radiology and Exner Lab.

Satish Viswanath, associate professor of biomedical engineering and member of the CCIR, traveled to Malaysia in August as part of the Fulbright Specialist Program. "This award gave me the opportunity to make connections with multiple international institutions who are interested in AI, digital pathology and radiology."

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Amit Gupta, MD, MRMD, Associate Professor of Radiology, CWRU/UH, was nominated and selected to join the Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2) Class of 2023 of The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. Read about the Academy's CECI2 program here.

CCIR member Dr. Leo Kayat Bittencourt was recently interviewed by Dr. Daniel Simon on the Science@UH podcast about the work he is leading through the Radiology AI and Diagnostic Innovation Collaborative at UH, known as RadiCLE. Check out the 20-minute interview, "Transforming Patient Outcomes through Radiology Partnerships and AI Solutions".

Chris A. Flask, PhD, Professor of Radiology, CWRU/UH, was named to the 2023 class of Distinguished Investigators of The Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research. Dr. Flask joins six of his fellow faculty colleagues who have also received this award: Drs. Basilion, Exner, Griswold, Lee, Muzic, and Wang.

CWRU Center for Imaging Research faculty were recognized at this year's CWRU Innovation Week. Congratulations to Mark Griswold on receiving the Discovery Award and Top Product Award, Susann Brady-Kalnay on receiving the Faculty Innovator Award, and Mei Zhang on receiving the Rare Disease Pioneer Award.

CCIR members recognized with Milestone Awards in the categories of Inventor: Susann Brady-Kalnay, Chris Flask, Mark Griswold, Michael Jenkins, Zheng-Rong Lu, Debra McGivney, Anirban Sen Gupta, Yanming Wang, David Wilson, Chunying Wu, Xin Yu; and Commercialization: Chaitra Badve, Yong Chen, Mark Griswold, Michael Jenkins, Jeffrey Sunshine.

Drs. Leonardo Kayat Bittencourt, Sree Harsha Tirumani, and Shuo Li, along with coauthors Chenchu Xu, Yuhong Song, and Dong Zhang received the Best Paper Award - Runner Up at the 2023 MICCAI Conference for their paper, "Spatiotemporal knowledge teacher-student reinforcement learning to detect liver tumors without contrast agents."