2026 ISMRM
Young Investigator Award Winners
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Prince-Meaney Translational Science Award Winner
Jianing Tang, B.Sc.
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
High-Fidelity Pulsatility Assessment of Cerebral Perforating Arteries Using Submillimeter-Resolution Dual-VENC Phase-Contrast MRI at 3T
W. S. Moore Award
Winner
Mira Liu, Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA
Multiparametric MRI Predicting Renal Function Deterioration & Chronic Kidney Disease Development in Patients Undergoing Nephrectomy for Renal Masses: A Pilot Study
I.I. Rabi Award
Winner
Saurin Kantesaria, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Designing B1-Selective Pulses by Frequency Modulating in a Second Rotating Frame
Young Investigator Award
Runners-Up
Kelly Payette, Ph.D.
University Children’s Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
T2* Relaxometry of Fetal Brain Structures Using Low-Field (0.55T) Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Jonathan Stelter, M.Sc.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Abdominal Simultaneous 3D Water T1 & T2 Mapping Using a Free-Breathing Cartesian Acquisition with Spiral Profile Ordering
Rui Tian, M.Sc.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
Overlap-Kernel EPI: Estimating MRI Shot-to-Shot Phase Variations from Overlap Regions at Arbitrary k-Space Locations
Ziyan Wang, Ph.D. Student
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Saturation-Transfer-Based MRI of the Brain in Multiple Sclerosis Patients at 3T
Horace Zhang, M.Sc., M.Phil.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Strong-Gradient Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using an Inside-Out Nonlinear Gradient Coil
Chenyang Zhao, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Next Generation 7T Arterial Spin Labeling with Rotated Spiral Acquisition Enables Mesoscale Perfusion and fMRI
