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Congratulations to Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D., of the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Department of Radiology, on winning the 2024 Debra Sivesind Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Palliative Care. Dr. Prigerson, WCM Endowed Professor of Diagnostics in Radiology, Professor of Sociology in Radiology, Professor of Sociology in Medicine, and Director, Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, will accept the award during the 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Supportive & Palliative Care Clinical & Research Symposium at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, on September 20 and 21, 2024. As a principal investigator on numerous National Institute of...

Congratulations to Tracy Butler, M.D., Sudhin Shah, Ph.D., and Yi Li, M.D., Ph.D., of the Brain Health Imaging Institute for their $6 million NIH grant: "Brain fluid clearance and misfolded protein dynamics following traumatic brain injury." Using neuroimaging, this project will monitor the deposition and clearance of amyloid and tau, thereby offering a better understanding of how brain clearance may relate to traumatic brain injury recovery and later risk of neurodegeneration.

Congratulations to Yi Wang, Ph.D., of the MRI Research Institute and Gloria Chiang, M.D., of the Brain Health Imaging Institute, for their $4 million NIH grant: “Quantitative MRI-based cerebral oxygen metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease.” This project will develop and validate a noninvasive MRI technique to diagnose and monitor alterations in cerebral oxygen metabolism across normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. 

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