CVC Young Investigator Awards

Overview

The Young Investigator Awards (YIA) recognize the best abstracts presented during the cardiology Young Investigators Session at the SNMMI Annual Meeting. Young Investigators are defined as individuals within five years of completing a residency training program or a PhD program (five years from the YIA presentation date).

Past Recipients

2024

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Clemens Spielvogel
    "Cardiac Amyloidosis Screening using Deep Learning on Bone Scintigraphy"

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Yufan Gu
    "Preclinical and first-in-human study of a novel SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging agent with rapid and stable heart uptake: 99mTc-4BOH"

2023

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Joel Eduardo Vargas Ahumada
    "Molecular imaging of fibroblast activity afthttps://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/64/supplement_1/P479er acute myocardial infarct using 99mTc-iFAP: Comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance, myocardial perfusion imaging and invasive coronary angiography"
  • 2nd Place: Qiong Liu
    "Dynamic Imaging and Tracer Kinetic Modeling of 18F-flutemetamol PET for ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis Patients"
  • 3rd Place: Mahesh Vidula
    "Relationship of beta-hydroxybutyrate levels and ketosis duration with diagnostic FDG-PET studies performed for the evaluation of active cardiac sarcoidosis"

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Yaqi Zheng
    "Immunometabolic-fibroblast activation interfaces post-myocardial infarction: A transparent study integrated molecular imaging with quantitative proteomics"
  • 2nd Place: Viola Wroblewski
    "Molecular imaging of the brain-heart axis after stroke: Impact of regional microglia suppression on cardiac function"
  • 3rd Place: Wenyu Song
    "68Ga-FAPI PET/CT Non-invasive Visualization of Progressive Changes in Chronic Heart Failure"

2022

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Xuezhu Wang1
    "Risk stratification and therapy response values of 11C-PIB positron emission tomography for amyloid light-chain amyloidosis"

Basic Science

  • 1st Place tie between 2 abstracts:
    Maday Fernandez Mayola
    "Evaluation of 68Ga-MHLL2 as a novel compound to assess fibroblast activation after myocardial infarction in mice"
    Kelsey Lolatte
    "Impact of Acute Myocardial Infarction on Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in a Transgenic Mouse Model"

2021

Basic Science

  • 1st place: Felicitas J. Detmer, PhD
    "Imaging of mitochondrial function in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity"
  • 2nd place: Benjamin Wilk
    "Myocardial glucose suppression interferes with the detection of inflammatory cells with FDG-PET in a canine model of myocardial infarction"
  • 3rd place: Zhao Liu, PhD
    "Assessment of lower extremities flow using dynamic Rb-82 PET: Acquisition protocols and quantification methods"

Clinical Science

  • ­­­­1st place: Ananya Singh, MS
    "Improved risk assessment of myocardial SPECT using deep learning: report from REFINE SPECT registry"
  • 2nd place: Sarah Boughdad, MD, PhD
    "68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT to detect immune checkpoint inhibitor-related myocarditis".
  • 3rd place: Xuezhu Wang
    "Dynamic analysis of 11C-PIB PET/CT in amyloid light-chain cardiac amyloidosis"

2020

Basic Science

  • 1st place: Nele Inga Hermanns
    "Molecular imaging of inflammation in the brain-heart axis after ischemic stroke: comparison of two murine stroke models"
  • 2nd place: Jakub Toczek, PhD
    "Multimodal molecular imaging of phagocytic and proteolytic activity in abdominal aortic aneurysm"
    3rd place: Inga Melvinsdottir, MD
    "Intramyocardial hydrogel delivery post myocardial infarction results in increased integrin activation and reduction in left ventricular modeling"

Clinical Science

  • 1st place: Jacek Kwiecinski
    "Clinical Predictors of 18F-Sodium Fluoride PET Coronary Uptake in Patients with Advanced Coronary Artery Disease"
  • 2nd place: Yuka Otaki
    "Diagnostic Accuracy of Deep Learning for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Men and Women with a High-Efficiency Parallel-Hole-Collimated Cadmium-Zin-Telluride Camera: multicenter study"
  • 3rd place: Mingkai Yun
    "Assessment of the metabolic heart-brain axis with cardiac and brain 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in patients with heart failure"

2019

Basic Science

  • 1st place: Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau
    "In vivo quantitative mapping of mitochondrial cardiac membrane potential: First in human"
  • 2nd place: Gyu Seong Heo
    "CCR2-targeted PET imaging of injured heart"

Clinical Science

  • 1st place: René Packard
    "Development, Diagnostic Performance, and Interobserver Agreement of an Automated Relative Perfusion Quantitation System of Flurpiridaz F-18 PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging"
  • 2nd place: Mario Jreige
    "Halved Rb-Injected Activity Using High-Resolution, High-Sensitivity and 214-ps SiPM-PET/CT in Comparison to a 500-ps System with Standard Activity"

2018

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Annika Hess
    "CXCR4-targeted imaging of leukocyte mobilization after myocardial infarction"
  • 2nd Place: Mirwais Wardak
    “Molecular Imaging of Cardiovascular Infections with 6ʹʹ-[18F]-Fluoromaltotriose PET/CT"
  • 3rd Place: Rang Wang
    "Radiosynthesis and Biological Evaluation of a Novel Berberine Derivative for Cardiac PET Imaging"

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Takashi Norikane
    "Correlation of noninvasive imaging of vulnerable carotid artery plaque using NaF and FDG PET/CT and black-blood MRI with cerebral ischemia on brain MRI"
  • 2nd Place: Carmella Nappi
    "Simultaneous cardiac 18F-FDG PET/MR for the assessment of different stages of cardiac impairment in patients with Anderson-Fabry disease."

2017

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Rudolf A. Werner
    "Vesicular storage and release of the novel sympathetic nerve tracer 18F-LMI1195."
  • 2nd Place: Raiyan Tripti Zaman
    “Harnessing Radioluminescence and Sound to Reveal Molecular Pathology of Atherosclerotic Plaques."
  • 3rd Place: Jens P. Bankstahl
    "Multi-tracer characterization of ischemic inflammation and perfusion in a murine model of hindlimb ischemia."

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Takashi Norikane
    "Comparative evaluation of F-18 FLT PET/CT and F-18 FDG PET/CT in patients with newly diagnosed thoracic sarcoidosis."
  • 2nd Place: Ishan Garg
    "3-D PYP Score for 3-hour uptake 99mTc Pyrophosphate SPECT-CT for Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy."
  • 3rd Place: Simon A. Castro
    "Common Carotid Artery Molecular Calcification Assessed by 18F-NaF PET/CT is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Results from the CAM

2016

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Christopher England
    "Radiolabeled long circulating nanoparticles for re-assessing the enhanced permeability and retention effect in peripheral arterial disease."
  • 2nd Place: Yoann Petibon
    "Impact of MR-based PET motion correction on the quantification of PET kinetic parameters in simultaneous cardiac PET-MR."
  • 3rd Place: Carols Perez-Mendia
    "Multimodal PET imaging of high-density lipoprotein's trafficking in multiple atherosclerosis models."

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Thorston Derlin
    "Imaging ruptured coronary atherosclerotic plaques by use of CXCR4-targeted, motion corrected PET/CT."
  • 2nd Place: Ines Valenta
    "PET-Measured Longitudinal Flow Gradient Correlates with Invasive Fractional Flow Reserve in CAD."
  • 3rd Place: Xiang Li
    "Combined 18F-FDG PET/CT and 18F-NaF PET/CT imaging in assessing vascular inflammation and osteogenesis in calcified atherosclerotic lesions."

2015

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Junaid Afzal
    "Dual isotope SPECT-CT imaging using sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) reveals improved energetics following cardiac transplantation of stem cells encapsulated in hydrogels."
  • 2nd Place: Rudolf Werner
    "Serial assessment of myocardial inflammation in a rat model of experimental myocarditis by PET."
  • 3rd Place: Yunan Yang
    "64-Cu-NOTA-YY146: A first-in-class for PET imaging of peripheral artery disease."

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Christopher Rischpler
    "18F-FDG uptake postischemic myocardium: relevance as a prognostic marker for functiional recovery."
  • 2nd Place: Seung-Pyo Lee
    "Diagnostic and Prognostic Implication of 11C-Pittsburgh B Positron Emission Tomography in AL Cardiac Amyloidosis."
  • 3rd Place: Axel Van Der Gucht
    "99mTc HMDP myocardial scintigraphy is predictive of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with transthyretin-type (TTR) amyloidosis."

2014

Basic Science

  • 1st Place: Reza Golestani
    "MMP imaging to predict aortic aneurysm rupture"
  • 2nd Place: Xingyu Nie
    "A study on progression of hypoxic atherosclerotic plaque in a mouse model using [64Cu]ATSM"
  • 3rd Place: Johanna Silvola
    "Detection of atherosclerotic plaques with a novel vascular adhesion protein-1 targeting [18F]FDR-Siglec-9 peptide"

Clinical Science

  • 1st Place: Nishant Shah
    "Prognostic value of PET-derived coronary flow reserve for survival in patients with dialysis-dependent end-stage renal disease"
  • 2nd Place: Ibrahim Danad
    "Quantitative cardiac PET imaging for diagnosis of hemodynamic significant epicardial disease"
  • 3rd Place: Mischa Rijnierse
    "Impaired cardiac sympathetic innervation is associated with microvascular dysfunction in non-infarcted myocardium in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy"