Commencement 2022 was held on June 10, 2022, with an in-person and virtual ceremony. The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging would like to take this opportunity to congratulate graduates. We would also like to recognize the following individuals who received awards.
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Although the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly disrupted many research studies, it has also accelerated development and use of remote assessment tools for cognition. The UCSF Brain Health Registry (BHR), an online research registry of over 100,000 adult volunteers, has been an innovator in this area and has continued to move forward.
The UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging is pleased to announce that Zhen Jane Wang, MD, professor in the UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, has accepted the role of Section Chief, Abdominal Imaging and Ultrasound, effective June 15, 2022.
The Bay Area Community Of Bay area RAdionuclide imagers (COBRA) meeting returned this year and was hosted at UC Davis on May 25, 2022. COBRA, originally conceived in 2006 by the late Bruce Hasegawa, PhD - brilliant investigator, educator and mentor at UCSF – and Ling Shao.
UCSF Radiology is pleased to announce that Thomas Hope, MD, associate professor and director of molecular therapy in the Molecular Imaging & Therapeutics Section, has accepted the role of Vice Chair, Clinical Operations and Strategy, effective June 1, 2022.
Recently, investigators from the Cancer Metabolic Imaging and Therapy Lab at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging teamed up with the Department of Neurosurgery to identify metabolic alterations linked to this ALT pathway that can be exploited for non-invasive deuterium magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2H-MRS)-based imaging of astrocytomas in vivo.