Recent NIH grant submissions in 2025 from Dr. Siqi Li (R01 application) and Dr. Kevin Chung (K99 application) received favorable peer-review feedback for projects in quantitative PET imaging and total-body kinetic modeling. Congratulations to Siqi and Kevin on a well-deserved outcome reflecting substantial effort and thoughtful proposal development!
Dr. Guobao Wang receives the 2025 IEEE Freek J. Beekman Medical Imaging Technical Achievement Award for contributions to advanced image reconstruction and translational kinetic modeling on November 6th, 2025, at the IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Yokohama, Japan. This award is given annually by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society to a mid-career individual… Read More »
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Chung — he received the first-ever Research Rock Star Award — Trainee Award from the School of Medicine, UC Davis Health. Picture: Kevin accepting his award from Dr. Kim E. Barrett, the Vice Dean of Research at UC Davis Health SOM. Kevin is a postdoctoral fellow jointly supervised Dr. Guobao Wang… Read More »
We have received acceptance for five abstracts at the 2025 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Yokohama, Japan. Congratulations to everyone! Kevin J. Chung, AJ Chaudhari, JE Lopez, TY Lee, N Omidvari, YG Abdelhafez, L Nardo, T Jones, RD Badawi, SR Cherry, G Wang. Total-body Multiparametric PET with High-temporal Resolution Imaging and Blood Flow Modeling of… Read More »
Congratulations to Dr. Siqi Li for receiving an Innovative Development Award from UC Davis Academic Federation. This award provides a pilot grant for Siqi to develop “Generalizable Deep Learning for Improving Pediatric PET Imaging.” He proposes developing a deep kernel model using a high-quality dataset collected from the ultra-high sensitivity total-body PET scanner EXPLORER. Once… Read More »
Huge congratulations to Dr. Kevin Chung for receiving the Niels Lassen Award at Brain & Brain PET 2025! This prestigious award is presented by the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism to recognize an outstanding scientific contribution made by a young scientist at the brain meeting. More details of this award-winning work can… Read More »
Congratulations to graduate student Xiaoyu Duan for successfully passing her qualifying exam on May 8, 2025. She is now a Ph.D. candidate! Her doctoral proposal focuses on developing methods to significantly improve the parametric PET/CT technique for imaging metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Xiaoyu is jointly mentored by Dr. Guobao Wang and Dr. Ramsey Badawi.… Read More »
Dr. Siqi Li has been selected for the class of 2025 SNMMI Ones to Watch. Congratulations Siqi! This annual list of early career professionals recognizes those with the potential to shape the future of precision medicine across all spectrums of the field of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging.
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Chung on having his paper (preprint) accepted by Nature Communications! The paper focuses on imaging blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability using high-temporal resolution dynamic PET enabled by EXPLORER and through advanced kinetic modeling. This method opens new directions to efficiently study the molecular permeability of the human BBB in vivo using the… Read More »
Dr. Siqi Li received a two-year NIH/NIBIB R03 research award as Principal Investigator to develop the feasibility of Total-body PET Parametric Imaging using Relative Patlak Plot, also see the method described in his recent JNM paper. Congratulations to Siqi for your first grant!