Innovation on Display at Imaging Sciences Pathway Retreat
Imaging plays an important role throughout the Washington University community and across scientific disciplines. The Imaging Sciences Pathway (ISP) is an interdisciplinary fellowship program that combines the expertise of several entities at WashU — Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, the School of Medicine, McKelvey School of Engineering and the College of Arts & Sciences — into a unique and robust training opportunity. To celebrate this community and showcase their latest research, students, trainees and faculty come together each spring at the ISP Retreat.
Two esteemed researchers joined the retreat to deliver keynote lectures. Laura D. Lewis, PhD, the Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor in the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discussed “Fast Multimodal Imaging of Human Brain Dynamics Across Sleep and Wakefulness.” Erik Herzog, PhD, the Viktor Hamburger Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences at WashU, presented “From Movies to Functional Connectomics: Circadian Synchrony in the Brain.”
Five ISP fellows then took to the floor to present their research:
- Samarth Aggarwal, “Feasibility of In-Vivo Dosimetry Measurement for Proton Therapy Using Mobile Point-of-Care (POC) PET Imaging System”
- Carmen Azevedo, “Dual Cell Targeting Using HER2/PD-1 Antibody Click”
- Will Hamic, “Distributed Functional Brain Mapping with Wearable High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography”
- Brian Sun, “Single-Shot Estimation of 6D Biomolecular Positions and Orientations”
- Zhixin (Flora) Sun, “Advanced Quantification Pipeline for Multiple Myeloma’s Progression Evaluation”
The event closed with a scientific poster session and a reception.
ISP is directed by Joseph P. Culver, PhD, the Sherwood Moore Professor of Radiology, Joseph O’Sullivan, PhD, the Samuel C. Sachs Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Monica Shokeen, PhD, associate professor of radiology. They also organize the annual retreat alongside Aimilia Gastounioti, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, and several WashU trainees and staff.
