Amir Goldan, Ph.D., and Gloria Chiang, M.D., Awarded $6.2 Million NIH Grant for "Prism-PET/EMMT: High Resolution, Cost-Effective, Portable, and Upright Brain PET Scanner for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease"

Congratulations to Amir Goldan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering in Radiology, and Gloria Chiang, M.D., Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Research, Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, and Director of the Brain Health Imaging Institute, on receiving a $6.2 million U01 grant: "Prism-PET/EMMT: High resolution, cost-effective, portable, and upright brain PET scanner for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease." Awarded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, the grant will be used to build a portable high-resolution Positron Emission Tomography scanner that detects the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease.  

Weill Cornell Medicine recently highlighted Drs. Goldan and Chiang on their website. Read the article here 

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