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Ansel Hillmer, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and of psychiatry, has been awarded a federal grant to develop a new brain imaging tool to study the brain’s immune system.

Dr. Chao Zheng, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University PET Center, has been awarded a 2022 Research Fellowship grant from the Alzheimer’s Association for PET Ligand Development and Application in Alzheimer’s Disease

PET Investigators Receive Awards at SNMMI 2022

Dr. Jocelyn Hoye (pictured) has been awarded a travel bursary to present her work, “Acute systemic inflammation amplifies methylphenidate-induced dopamine release in tobacco smokers”, in oral form at this year’s Brain and Brain PET 2022 meeting to be held in Glasgow in late May.

Dr. Yihuan Lu, Associate Research Scientist, Yale University PET Center, was presented with the Bruce Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award at the Virtual 2020 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference held October 31 through November 7, 2020

Yale scientists will build the next-generation human brain PET scanner, the NeuroeXplorer (NX), to be installed at the Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center in two years.

Yale PET Center research was well represented at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNNMI) 2020 Virtual Meeting held July 11-14.

Zhengxin (Jason) Cai, PhD, Assistant Professor, Yale University PET Center, has received a R21 NIH/National Cancer Institute grant to develop novel PET imaging agents for CXCR5, a biomarker and potential treatment target for Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL)

Yihuan Lu PhD and John Onofrey PhD have been awarded an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop “Data-Driven Head Motion Correction In PET Imaging Using Deep Learning.”