Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D., has won a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grant for a sophisticated new plan to expose, more precisely than ever before, the unstable atherosclerotic carotid plaque behind one of our biggest “silent killers”: strokes.
Called, “Quantitative susceptibility mapping for stroke risk prediction of vulnerable carotid plaques,” Dr. Nguyen’s project involves refining a pioneering Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Institute (MRIRI) approach devised by MRIRI...