Congratulations to Yi Wang, Ph.D., Faculty Distinguished Professor in Radiology, Professor of Physics in Radiology, and MRI Research Institute Director, on receiving the 2024 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Gold Medal Award. Dr. Wang, who has been with Cornell for 25 years, received the ISMRM Gold Medal, the society’s highest honor, "for his pioneering contributions to the initial development of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) and its many important applications, especially in the field of neurodegeneration."
For over 40 years, ISMRM, a nonprofit association focused on magnetic resonance techniques, has bestowed the Gold Medal upon select scientists "in recognition of major research contributions to the field of magnetic resonance within the scope of the society." In May, at the 2024 ISMRM Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Singapore, Dr. Yi Wang accepted the Gold Medal Award and joined a small cadre of eminent researchers.
"The Gold Medal recognizes QSM, developed by our Cornell team," says Dr. Wang. "I am deeply grateful for the many brilliant past and present team members and collaborators who worked on advancing QSM and its clinical applications. QSM began from my curiosity about phase data and my persistence in interpreting it through biophysics. Like Dr. Martin Prince, the first ISMRM Gold Medalist in the WCM Department of Radiology, we both spend long evening and weekend hours at work and thoroughly enjoy it. So, I encourage all researchers to follow their curiosities, persist in their pursuits, and find joy in their work."