Accolades for the Caravan Lab at the SNMMI annual meeting

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held its annual meeting last month and members of the Caravan Lab in the MGH Martinos Center were widely recognized for their contributions. The honors and awards included the following:

Francesco Blasi’s abstract “Molecular imaging of thrombosis using FBP8-PET allows whole-body thrombus detection and fibrin content estimation” was selected as one of the top 2 basic science cardiovascular abstracts and selected for presentation in the Herrmann Blumgart Lecture & Award Session. His work was also highlighted in a session on "Technical & Clinical Research Trends in Cardiac PET.”

Dr. Blasi’s presentation was also chosen as one of the highlights of the entire meeting, in the "Highlights Session” summarizing the meeting.

Tyson Rietz won the "CMIIT Laboratory Professionals Award,” which is designed to recognize innovative, high-impact tools, techniques and practices in molecular imaging developed by non-PhD laboratory professionals. (CMIIT is SNMMI's Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation.) The award was accompanied by complementary meeting registration and a $1000 prize.

Pauline Desogere’s abstract "Collagen-targeted PET probes for pulmonary fibrosis imaging: effect of the radioisotope on biodistribution” was a finalist for the RPSC Young Investigator Award.

Eszter Boros’ abstract "Macrocycle based hydroxamate chelators for stable complexation of 89Zr” was highlighted in the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences/Molecular Imaging/CMIIT Basic Science Summary Session.