Annual COBRA Series

On March 24, the Bay Area Young Investigators Meeting for Nuclear Imaging and Therapy met as part of the annual COBRA series. COBRA, The Bay Area Community Of Bay area RAdionuclide imagers, originally conceived in 2006 by the late Bruce Hasegawa, PhD and Ling Shao, has provided a collaborative networking and educational venue for Bay Area researchers in nuclear imaging for years. The previous event in 2022 at UC Davis was the first held after more than a decade, and this one in 2023 is the first one held at UCSF.  

The 2023 meeting was locally organized by Javier Caravaca, PhD, and hosted by Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UCSF. Speakers were Alexia Cosby, PhD, from LBNL/UC Berkeley, Emily Enlow, PhD, from UCSC, Sam Mazin, PhD, from Reflexion Medical, Seungeun Lee, PhD, from LBNL, Kyoungtae Lee, PhD, from UCSF/UC Berkeley, and Bangyan Huang from UC Davis. 
 
The goal of the COBRA series of annual conferences is to create a networking tool for Bay Area researchers interested in nuclear imaging, boost interdisciplinary collaboration and publications, and lead to more inter-institutional and locally led grants. Members of the COBRA Steering Committee are Shiva Abbaszadeh, UC Santa Cruz, Joshua Cates, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Javier Caravaca, UCSF, Gerard Ariño-Estrada, UC Davis and Ekaterina Shanina, UC Davis. 

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