ISMRM Joint Workshop of the
Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups
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31 March-02 April 2025
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Cultural Center Altinate San Gaetano, Padua, Italy
ISMRM Joint Workshop of the
Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups
calendar_month
31 March-02 April 2025
location_on
Cultural Center Altinate San Gaetano, Padua, Italy
Preliminary Program
Day 1 - Thursday, 16 October 2025
8:00
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Session 1: NMR Metabolomics & Imaging
Moderator: Candace Fleischer, Ph.D.
9:00
Welcome
Leo Cheng, Ph.D. &
Candace Fleischer, Ph.D.
9:15
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
9:30
Keynote: NMR Metabolomics & Imaging in Cancer: Tripping the Light Metabolic
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Zaver M. Bhujwalla, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
10:15
Brain Metabolic Imaging: Advances & Opportunities for Metabolomic Study
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Jie Luo, Ph.D.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
10:40
Break & Speaker Upload Available
11:10
Itamar Ronen, Ph.D.
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Sussex, England, UK
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
12:00
Metabolomic Relationships Between Lung Cancer & Alzheimer’s Disease Using Serum Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Rajshree Ghosh Biswas, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA, USA
12:15
Tamara Vasilkovska, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
12:30
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
14:00
Poster Session (Even Numbered Posters)
Session 2: Clinical Challenges
Moderator: Kevin Chuen Wing Chan, Ph.D.
15:05
Salute To Our Sponsors
15:10
Nvision-Polaris: New Horizons in Hyperpolarized MRI
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Simon Bennett, Ph.D.
15:25
United Imaging Healthcare
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YongQuan Ye, Ph.D.
15:30
Overview: Clinical Challenges
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Victor Ferrari, M.D.
Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
15:45
Keynote: Metabolic Liver Diseases: Expanding Clinical Role of MRI-Based Quantitative Biomarkers
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Richard L. Ehman, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
16:30
Uncovering the Metabolic Secrets of Anaerobes
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Lynn Bry, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA, USA
16:55
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17:25
Mitochondrial Pathways in Human Liver & Heart by 13C NMR
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Craig Malloy, M.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Advanced Imaging Research Center
Dallas, TX, USA
17:50
A New Platform for Early & Objective Evaluation of the Breast When Disease Can Be Managed or Cured
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Carolyn Mountford, D.Phil.
DatChem
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
18:15
Differences in Brain Metabolite Quantification Between Spectra Acquired with 3T & 7T MR Field Strengths
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Rachel Goldberg, B.Sc.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
18:30
Adjourn & Networking Reception
Day 2 - Friday, 17 October 2025
8:00
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Session 3: MS Based Metabolomics & Imaging
Moderator: Rajshree Ghosh Biswas, Ph.D.
9:00
MS Metabolomics & Imaging
Ian Lewis, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
9:15
David Wishart, Ph.D.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
10:00
Andrea Armirotti, Ph.D.
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Genova, Italy
10:25
Break & Speaker Upload Available
10:55
Julia Kuligowski, Ph.D.
Health Research Institute La Fe
Valencia, Spain
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
11:20
Alessio Siviglia, M.Sc.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging
Bussigny, Switzerland
11:35
Integrated LC–MS Profiling of Aqueous Humor Reveals Proteo-Metabolomic Signatures of Glaucoma Progression
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Muneeb Faiq, Ph.D.
New York University Grossman School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
11:50
Nancy Santiappillai, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
12:05
Katherine Rivera, Ph.D. Candidate
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
12:20
Andrei Damyanovich, Ph.D., CCPM
University Health Network & University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
12:35
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
14:00
Poster Session (Odd Numbered Posters)
Session 4: Multi-Modality Technologies & Imaging
Moderator: Rachel Goldberg, B.Sc.
15:00
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
15:15
Keynote: The Historical Curve Leading to Modern Metabolomics
Stephen Barnes, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL, USA
16:00
H. Charles Manning, Ph.D.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA
16:25
Deuterium & X-Nuclear Metabolomics & Imaging in Medicine
Evita Wiegers, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
16:50
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17:20
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: A Potential Tool for Metabolomics Research
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Jian Ye, Ph.D.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
17:45
Kayvan Rahimi-Keshari, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA
18:10
Spectroscopic Probing of Bacterial Metabolism at Single-Cell Level
Howbeer Muhamad Ali, Ph.D.
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, UK
18:35
Adjourn
19:00
Networking Dinner
Day 3 - Saturday, 18 October 2025
8:30
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Session 5: AI & ML Multi-omics Data Sciences
Moderator: Xinyuan Bi, Ph.D.
9:00
Overview: AI, ML Multi-omics
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Xiaohong Joe Zhou, Ph.D.
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA
9:15
Hui Mao, Ph.D.
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, USA
10:00
Omics
Ian Lewis, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
10:25
Break & Speaker Upload Available
10:55
Timothy Ebbels, Ph.D.
Imperial College London
London, England, UK
11:20
AI/ML & Metabolomics on Cancer
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T.B.A.
Proffered Papers - Oral Session
11:45
Anjali Balaganesh, Undergraduate
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
12:00
Blood‑Derived Metabolomic Signatures for Glaucoma Classification Using Explainable AI with SHAP
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Justin Veerasami, M.Sc.
New York University, Vilcek Institute of Graduate Sciences
New York, NY, USA
12:15
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Session 6: Future of MMI
Moderator: Leo Cheng, Ph.D.
14:00
Towards Integrative Multimodal, Multiscale Metabolomic Imaging: Thoughts for Discussion
Fan Lam, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
14:35
Daniel Raftery, Ph.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
15:30
Break & Speaker Upload Available
16:00
Panel Discussion
T.B.A.
17:10
Closing Remarks
Leo Cheng, Ph.D. &
Candace Fleischer, Ph.D.
17:30
Adjourn
19:00
Networking Dinner