National Image Guided Therapy Workshop was held on May 19, 2022, in virtual format. The workshop drew 289 registrations, including 29 NIH personnel and 48 industry representatives. The workshop started with four plenary lecturers covering state-of-art Image Guided Therapy research:…
Awardee: Brigham and Women’s Hospital Project Title: MAGNUS – next-generation MRI scanner to advance brain research in Massachusetts Award Amount: $3,026,942 Today, the Baker-Polito Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced $28.3 million in capital funds to support 10 projects through the MLSC’s…
Sonia Pujol, PhD, a clinical neuroscientist, investigates the anatomical connectivity of the human brain with a focus on brain mapping technology for neurosurgical intervention. She is the director of Training and Education of the 3D Slicer open-source software platform for…
Project Title: Augmented Reality Guided Breast Reconstruction Surgery
Project Title: Automated Cranial Nerve Identification Using Deep Learning for Skull Base Presurgical Planning
Alexandra Golby, MD’s project will leverage existing investments in building health care infrastructure and will seek to advance biomedical technologies in settings with limited resources. The Fulbright Scholar Program supports activities and projects that recognize and promote the critical relationship…
Lauren O'Donnell, PhD, of the Department of Radiology, and Yogesh Rathi, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Radiology, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1 grant for their research project, “Mapping the Superficial White Matter…
Tina Kapur, PhD, of the Department of Radiology and Andrew Goldsmith, MD, MBA, of the Department of Emergency Medicine, received capital funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) for their research project, “Artificial Intelligence Guidance for High-Yield Point-of-Care Ultrasound Applications.”…
The annual President’s Scholar Award at Brigham and Women’s Hospital recognizes exceptional scholarly and entrepreneurial accomplishments and supports the careers of assistant or associate professors who have made noteworthy contributions to their chosen field of research. The awardees will receive…
There are many challenges in managing breast cancer. Top among them is the fact that initial breast-conserving surgeries (the standard treatment for early-stage disease also known as lumpectomies) often miss vestiges of a patient’s tumor. Source: Official Podcast of the BREAST…