Earlier this year, the Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII) of the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Department of Radiology (DoR) and the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer’s Disease Research Institute of the WCM Brain and Mind Research Institute announced the annual WCM Neurodegeneration Research Awards. Designed to foster interdisciplinary neurodegenerative brain disease research, and open to all faculty, each award is $25,000. On September 1, 2023, four DoR faculty members received the pilot awards. Dr. Laura Beth McIntire, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology in radiology and director of the BHII Lipidomics and Biomarker Discovery Lab, and Dr. Gloria Chiang, M.D., associate professor of clinical radiology and co-director of BHII, received one award for their proposed work to determine the lipid profile and immunological content of exosomes and their association with imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, including brain amyloid, in the context of apolipoprotein E4 carrier status. While Dr. Jana Ivanidze, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology, and Dr. Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D., associate professor of physics research in radiology, received the other award for their work on developing an arterial spin-labeling MRI method for the assessment of brain water transport in normal pressure hydrocephalus. Congratulations to the pilot award winners, and here’s to fruitful research!