Bruker MRI Award 2026
Bruker MRI Award
Thank you so much to our winners of this year's Bruker MRI Award. It was a pleasure getting to see your incredible presentations.
Below are our winners. Congratulations to all of you!
2026 Bruker MRI Award Winners
1st place Award winner: Mingchen He and Nataliya Prokopenko Buxbaum
Deuterium MRI for the Evaluation of Treatment Response in Solid Tumors: Pseudo-progression vs Progression
2nd place Award winner: Donghyun Hong
Cancer treatment-induced cardiotoxicity detection and cardio-protection monitoring from SGLT2i using multimodal MR biomarkers
3rd place Award winner: Elton Tadeu Montrazi
¹³C-lactate imaging without hyperpolarization using Selective Polarization Transfer (SPT) / NOE CSI-SSFP experiments
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