Congratulations to 2024-25 MSBI Students!
At this year's Master of Science in Biomedical Imaging (MSBI) Symposium, nine students presented theses spanning MRI, PET, prostate cancer, and multiple sclerosis. Faculty, researchers, and department staff joined to support the students and celebrate their accomplishments.
The MSBI students selected Alastair Martin, PhD, as the recipient of this year's MSBI Outstanding Teaching Award.
A special thank you goes to MSBI leadership, Youngho Seo, PhD, MSBI Program Director, and Susan Noworolski, PhD, MSBI Director of Graduate Studies, for guiding another successful year. Since the program's launch in 2011, MSBI graduates have continued into medical school, PhD programs, academic research, and careers in health care.
MSBI Students and Their Projects, 2024-25
Bhavna Gundamaraju: Resting State fMRI in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Other Rapidly Progressive Dementias
Chair: Michael Geschwind, MD, PhD
Alexandra Wu: MRI Changes in Presymptomatic Genetic Prion Disease Patients
Chair: Michael Geschwind, MD, PhD
Bhakti Kulkarni: 18-Flurodeoxyglucose ([18F]-FDG) PET/MRI Assessment of Patellofemoral Osteoarthritis Pain Induced by Weight-Bearing Exercise
Chair: Richard Souza, PhD, PT
Jiuyi Zhang: QSM Pipeline for Multiple Sclerosis
Chair: Roland Henry, PhD
Cheng Xue: Identification of Novel CD46-Binding Peptides for PET Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using Phage Display
Chair: Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
Brian Tuan: Adapting 2D multimodal foundation models to 3D tasks with attention pooling
Chair: Andreas Rauschecker, MD, PhD
Nicholas Finke: A Large Language Model for Liver Lesion Characteristic and Classification Extraction from LI-RADS Reports
Chair: Yang Yang, PhD
Chili Phaler: StarPEG-Based Nanocarriers for PSMA-Targeted Imaging and Delivery in Prostate Cancer
Chair: Henry VanBrocklin, PhD
Rocelle Evangelista: Preoperative Structural and Diffusion MRI Biomarker Profiling to Predict RNS Efficacy in Medically Refractory Epilepsy
Chair: Ankit Khambhati, PhD