2022 Junior Fellow Symposium:
Shark Tank

12 May at 09:15 BST
ICC Capital Hall 2

The winners of the 2022 Shark Tank competition are:

1st Place:

Andrzej Liebert
Virtual Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI

2nd Place:

Pete Lally
Turning SSFP Artifacts into Extra Signals

The Junior Fellow Symposium presents the 2nd edition of the Shark Tank! Four teams with new ideas to push the MR field pitch their projects to our panel of judges: Doug Kelley, Tobias Kober, Liz Moore, Xavier Golay and Haiying Tang. The four finalists this year are:

Andrzej Liebert presents:

Virtual Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Breast MRI

To open the way for MRI in breast cancer screening, dynamic contrast enhanced breast MRI shall be substituted by native acquisitions and artificial intelligence.

Coaches: Drs. Ari Borthakur and Ines Horvat-Menih

Akbar Alipour presents:

A Wireless RF Pad to Improve MRI

We developed a novel wireless RF pad that works in conjunction with conventional MRI coils to improves the transmit efficiency and signal sensitivity in the targeted region, where the coil does not have enough transmit efficiency.

Coaches: Drs. Jun Hua Matthew Rosen

Pete Lally presents:

Turning SSFP Artifacts into Extra Signals

Do you want to run high SNR-efficiency SSFP sequences but struggle with annoying banding artifacts? Not only can you get rid of them but you can exploit them for super-resolution, while also giving you a free SNR boost or a relaxometry experiment!

Coaches: Drs. Martijn Cloos and Meral Reyhan

Subin Erattakulangara presents:

Protohub

Protohub is a unified platform which allow researchers to publish their peer reviewed novel MRI acquisition protocols and deep learning reconstruction models.

Coaches: Drs. Deborah Burstein and Christopher Filippi

Who will win the ISMRM membership? Who will win the ISMRM socks? Who has the next big idea? Stop by and find out.

Moderators: Gastao Cruz & Thomas Kuestner

Judge Bios

Haiying Tang:
PhD, in biomedical engineering; MR scientist, 23 years of preclinical/clinical MRI biomarker research in academia and industry, including 5 years at Columbia Univ.; 5 years at Merck Research Lab; 3 years TBI research at CNRM (Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine), Uniformed Service Univ. of Health Sciences; 8 years at Bristol Myer’s Squibb; and currently director of clinical and translational neuroimaging in Huntington’s disease and therapeutics research at CHDI Foundation/Management Inc.

Tobias Kober:
Tobias Kober studied computer engineering at the University of Mannheim, Germany, and earned his doctorate in MRI research at the EPFL in Lausanne, working on new MR motion correction and anatomical imaging methods. Since 2014, he has headed the Swiss Innovation Hub of Siemens Healthineers. There, he and his team research and develop new imaging techniques and clinical decision support methods and tools at the interface between university, clinical application and industry.

Liz Moore:
Liz has worked in clinical MR for 30 years, starting with over 10 years in UK public hospitals. After joining Philips she worked alongside clinical users to help with their research and daily practice. In 2012 she moved to R&D, leading a global team of developers who create new pulse sequences and novel reconstructions.

Doug Kelley:
Global Product Manager for 7T and advanced neuroimaging platforms; have participated in and led GE’s 7T efforts for over 20 years, working closely with academic customers including UCSF, Stanford, and University of Pisa; Associate Adjunct Professor of Radiology at UCSF.

Xavier Golay:
PhD in MRI physics (1998), Professor and CEO of Gold Standard Phantoms, a UCL Institute of Neurology Spinout (since 2015). Researcher, Med Tech Entrepreneur, cook, dancer. Areas of expertise: primarily physiology, neurological diseases and oncology.