Bruker MRI Award 2026
Bruker MRI Award
We look forward to seeing you in Cape Town, 9–14 May 2026.
For ISMRM 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa, we are pleased to invite scientists to submit their research project for the Bruker MRI Award 2026.
Voting for the MRI Award is now OPEN!
Once again, we were thrilled to receive so many submissions this year. We received submissions from many countries around the world. It was a tough decision, but we narrowed the finalists down to these top three. Each submission was based on four criteria: difficulty, novelty, applicability, and impact.
Take a look at the three finalists below and then vote for your favorite.
Voting accepted until April 23, 2026
The winner will be announced at the Bruker Scientific Workshop during the annual ISMRM Meeting in Cape Town on May 9th.
Finalists (in no particular order)
Recognition of the Winners
We want to continue the tradition of valuing the great work of scientists and researchers in the area of Preclinical Imaging by recognizing the winners at the Bruker Scientific Workshop during the annual ISMRM Meeting. In 2026, the ISMRM will be held from May 9-14 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Additional information about the details of presenting the work will be shared with the winners.
2025 Bruker MRI Award Winners
1st place Award winner: Tzu-Hao Harry Chao
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
2nd place Award winner: Gabrielle Mangin and Hannah Fels-Palesandro
INSERM U1149 CRI & University Hospital Heidelberg
3rd place Award winner: Rhea Carlson
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
2024 Bruker MRI Award Winners
1st place Award winner: Stephen Sawiak
Uzay Emir, and the PETALUTE team
2nd place Award winner: Andreea Hertanu
Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
3rd place Award winner: Norikazu Koyasu
NIH/NCI Radiation Biology Branch
2023 Bruker MRI Award Winners
1st place: Martin Grashei
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
2nd place: Andrada Ianus
Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
3rd place: Phillip Zhe Sun
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
2022 Bruker MRI Award Winners
1st place: Georgios Bastois
San Francisco, CA, USA
2nd place: Roël Vrooman
Radboud University Medical Centre, the Netherlands
3rd place: Elton Tadeu Montrazi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
2021 Bruker MRI Award Winners
First place: Dasiy Villano
Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging,
Torino, Italy
Second place: David Schaefer
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Third place: Daniele Bertoglio
Molecular Imaging Center Antwerp , University of Antwerpen, Belgium
2020
Bruker MRI Award Winners
First place: Dr. Martin MacKinnon
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, USA
Second place: Dr. Alice Zhou
The University of Queensland,
Australia
Third place: Dr. Yuning Gu, Prof. Xin Yu
Case Western Reserve University,
Ohio, USA
Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Sequence Unlocks New Doors in Preclinical Imaging
Customer Insight with 2024 first-place winners Uzay Emir and Stephen Sawiak.
New Molecular MRI Agent - Hyperpolarized 13C-labeled Z-OMPD
Interview with 2023 first-place winner Martin Grashei and Prof. Dr. Franz Schilling from the Technical University of Munich, Germany