Chapter Meetings
Upcoming ISMRM Chapter Meetings
Benelux Chapter
January 30th, Antwerp
Bruker was Proud to Attend
Indian Chapter Conference
Bustling Hyderabad hosted the 2025 ISMRM Indian chapter conference from Feb. 27th to March 1st, 2025. With participants from more than 120 academic institutes, the level of science presented, was extremely high. Neurology played a large part of the meeting with talks covering neurodegenerative disorders and brain damage as well as brain connectivity. In oncology, elastography was at the focus. The clincial presentations were mirrored in the preclinical presentations, a fact which was emphasized in a Bruker sponsored talk that underscored the potential of preclinical imaging to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical applications. Centering on India, additional sessions dicussed the impact of the country's, while still at a very low median, aging population.
Italian Chapter Conference
The city of Lecco was the host of the 2025 ISMRM Italian Chapter Conference from March 24th to 26th, where the spotlight was on pediatric imaging and emerging MRI techniques. The program featured developments in synthetic MRI, tumor microenvironment imaging, and structural and functional connectomics. Picking up on the additional topic of high-relaxivity contrast media, Silvio Aime, whose pioneering work continues to shape the future of imaging, presented an educational talk titled “Design and Testing of Innovative Procedures with Paramagnetic MRI Contrast Agents". In the preclinical realm, Eleonora Cavallari, also from Torino, presented O2 in vivo assessment of transmembrane water cycling in the developing brain using experiments on chicken embryo permeating Gd CA through the egg surface without injection.
Iberian Chapter Conference
The 2024 edition of the Iberian Chapter Conference, which took place from the 2nd to the 3rd of July was extremely productive. It was held at i3S, the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health at the heart of the University of Porto and fostered fruitful discussions and great networking opportunities The very good balance between clinical, preclinical, and computational MRI created by the executive committee was highly appreciated by the attendees who enjoyed such keynote speakers as Emma Munoz-Moreno from IDIBAPS, Barcelona who heads the MRI Core facility and covers several applications such as neurodegenerative disease, neuropsychiatry and neurovascular diseases.
Japanese Chapter Conference
The ninth annual ISMRM Japanese Chapter coference took place on September 21st in Chiba. This meeting, which was chaired by Dr. Fukunaga from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences was held together with the 52nd annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. A highlight was the presentation of the prestigous Seiji Ogawa Prize, named in honor or Seiji Ogawa's ground breaking work in fMRI to Dr. Hiroshi Tagawa from Kyoto University.
German and Nordics Chapter Conference
A historic milestone was made as the DACH (German, Austrian, and Swiss) and Nordic chapters of ISMRM come together for a first joint collaboration and meeting from the 16th to 17th of September in Kiel. In the spirit of inclusivity, all presentations were held in English. Plenary speakers included Prof. Matthias Günter (Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany), Prof. Inga Voges (UKSH Kiel, Kiel, Germany), Prof. Christoff Lausten (Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark), and Prof. Martin Uecker (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria), covering a wide range of topics from diffusion, low and high field MR, sequence development, reconstruction, AI and clinical applications. This year's DACH and Nordic Meeting also featured a strong showing in the fields of hyperpolarisation and metabolic MR imaging. A career session for young scientists involving industry and academic partners sparked a lively discussion, with the theme of gender equality taking centre stage.
British and Irish Chapter Conference
The ISMRM British and Irish chapter conference was held from the 9th to the 11th of September in Brighton at the Sussex Medical school. For its 30th edition, the one -day pre-meeting workshop was focused on advanced in vivo MRS Methods for studying metabolism, physiology and cytomorphology led by leading experts from the UK and abroad. Dr. Willy Gsell provided an overview of the Bruker portfolio to support such applications with focus on the latest development at ultra high field, X nuclei and hyperpolarization. The full conference then kicked off on the 10th with sessions covering brain, body, neuro, cancer, AI, and hardware, pulse, and protocol design. Mark Lythgoe delivered the Bill Moore lecture focusing on skeletal imaging. With over 100 attendees, the British and Irish chapter is the regional conference of choice for the MRI/MRS community in UK.
