Category: MMNI-News

At the European Academy of Nuclear Medicine Conference 2022, Dr. Hoenig’s work was listed among the Top Abstracts of the Neuroimaging session.

To foster her work on artificial intelligence biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease, Elena received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research visit to the University of Iceland.

During the IPMM days 2022, Verena received an award for 2nd best poster for her project on “Motor reserve as a modifier of long-term prognosis in Parkinson’s disease” Elena was awarded best presentation for her presentation on “How does brain age relate to the risk of developing dementia?”

Dr. Hoenig will use the grant to study the role of sleep on the evolution and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Together with the company Dreem, the Sleep Research Society awarded Dr. Hoenig funds to study “Sleep as potential prognostic biomarker for longitudinal tau and amyloid burden in Alzheimer’s disease”. Dreem supported her project with the kind donation of 15 sleep monitoring headbands.

Both received travel awards to join the 2022 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders in Madrid, Spain

The CRC 1451 on Motor Control has awarded both poster presentations as the best during a three-day scientific retreat.

For his paper “One-Stop Shop: 18F-Flortaucipir PET Differentiates Amyloid-Positive and -Negative Forms of Neurodegenerative Diseases”, our alumni PD Dr. Jochen Hammes received the Alavi–Mandell Award 2022.

Dr. Gérard Bischof was honored by his hometown as ” Werdohler Kopf” (head/mind of Werdohl). This award is given to those who have made a name for themselves in their field. Very right, Werdohl, we could not agree more.

Hendrik Theis received his medical doctorate. He is now Dr. med. Hendrik Theis. Congratulations!

At this years Science Slam of the Medical School, University of Cologne, there were 8 great presentations by young researchers in the medical field. Verena Dzialas took 1st place (easily, we say) with her fantastic presentation on “Motor Reserve”. Julia Pfeil came in 3rd with a very impressive talk on “Amyloid, the protein that makes us forget”.

Kathrin Giehl received a PhD for her work entitled: Antagonizing Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: Neural & Behavioural Effects of Home-based Working Memory Training.

– Congratulations!

The work of Dr. Merle Hönig on “Resistance to Tau and Amyloid Pathology Facilitates Super-Aging” was selected as the Image of the Year 2020 by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

Our group receives this prestigious international award for the second time after 2016, when the work of Dr. Gérard Bischof has been awarded.

Dr. Merle Hönig received the Brain Imaging Council Young Investigator Award 2020 at this year’s international conference of the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for her presentation “Resistance to Tau and Amyloid Pathology Facilitates Super-Aging”.

As part of her presentation, Dr. Hoenig presented the results of a series of PET images that show that older adults who maintained peak cognitive skills exhibited greater resistance to build-up of Alzheimer’s disease-typical proteinopathies, namely tau and amyloid pathology.

During the European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN) held in Paris, Merle Hönig was awarded the 1st price for her work on Super Agers.
see full programme here

Merle Hoenig received a PhD
Her thesis:
„The Spatial Evolution of Tau Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease: Influence of Functional Connectivity and Education“
received the highest possible distinction!

The CNS – Hannelore Kohl Foundation supports the research project of Dr. Gérard Bischof on the relationship between repetitive brain trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

At the 14^th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease (ADPD) held in Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-31, 2019, Jochen Hammes is awarded a Junior Faculty Award for his work on PET in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease.

At the 14^th International Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease (ADPD) held in Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-31, 2019, Merle Hönig is awarded a Junior Faculty Award for her work on tau and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer’s disease.

The medical faculty  awards Kathrin Giehl an IPaK travel grant in the context of the ipid4all-application (DAAD) of the Albertus Magnus Graduate Center.  She will attend the International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders held in October 2018 in Hong Kong in order to present her work on working memory training in Parkinson’s disease using fMRI.

Dr. Gérard Bischof received the Kurt Kaufmann award of the German Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. for research on gender effects on tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease, which includes a prize money of €10.000.

for more information, see here

The work of cand. med. Hendrik Theis on how dopaminergic turnover in the ventral striatum is linked to impulse control disorders in PD patients was honored by one of the five ECCN 2018 awards for abstract submission at the 7th European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN) to be held in Brussels, Belgium, March 26-27, 2018.

See program here.

Dr. Gérard N. Bischof’s work on where amyloid deposition predicts progression in Alzheimer’s disease was honored by one of the five ECCN 2018 awards for abstract submission at the 7th European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN) to be held in Brussels, Belgium, March 26-27, 2018.

See program here

During the 1^st international conference on cognitive reserve in dementias (ResDem) held in Munich, Merle Hönig is awarded the Best Poster Price for her work on tau and cognitive reserve in Alzheimer’s disease.

Read the full program here.

Merle Hönig, PhD student in our lab, was honored for the best poster in the category “Prognosis & Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease” during this year’s Alzheimer’s Association International Conference held between July 16-20, 2017 in London. She received the award endowed with US$ 250 for her poster entitled: “Tau Pathology Burden Associated with Level of Cognitive Reserve in Alzheimer’s Diesease.

Read the abstract here.

Dr. Jochen Hammes was honoured with a travel grant during the 21. International Congress of the Society for Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders held between June 4-8, 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. He gratefully received US$ 1000 for his work on predicting impulsive behaviour under dopaminergic therapy in Parkinson patients using F-18-DOPA-PET.

Read the abstract here.

Dr. Gérard N. Bischof receives a travel grant to present his work on the relationship between CSF markers of p-tau and t-tau to in vivo tau deposition as measured by PET in typical and atypical Alzheimer’s disease at the annual meeting of the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) in Denver, USA.

Read the abstract here.

The MMNI group is excited to participate in the very first Cologne Neuroscience Day (CNS) as a platform for young neuroscientists in Cologne to present their work. Talks will be given by Dr. Gérard N. Bischof and Dr. Jochen Hammes.

Read the full program here.

The medical faculty awards Dr. Jochen Hammes with a 12-month stipend for a research rotation at the MMNI lab to work on software-assisted PET analysis in neurodegenerative diseases.

Prof. Thilo van Eimeren will coordinate a Brain Imaging Working Group aiming to harmonize brain imaging approaches in atypical parkinsonian disorders. The project will be funded by the EU Joint Programme for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND).

Read the project description here.

Every year, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging chooses an image that exemplifies the most promising advances in the field in order to detect diseases, aid diagnosis or select appropriate treatment strategies for patients. For this year’s annual meeting held in San Diego, the reviewers had to vote from 2200 submitted abstracts. We are happy and proud to announce that this year’s Image of the Year award goes to our dear member Dr. Gérard Bischof for his work entitled: “Novel PET imaging demonstrates relationship between Tau bildup and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s patients.”

Read the full article here. You can download the image here.

We were happy to host the first MINC symposium under the guiding theme “Imaging Biomarkers in Neurodegeneration: Are we prepared for therapy?” on June 24th – 25th 2016.

Find pictures and program here.

"Kathrin Giehl receives Travel Grant"

The medical faculty awards Kathrin Giehl an IPaK travel grant in the context of the ipid4all-application (DAAD) of the Albertus Magnus Graduate Center in order to present her work on T1-assisted tau-PET image preprocessing at the 22nd annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) honours Dr. Gérard N. Bischof’s work on the contribution of tau to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease with a Merit Abstract Award during their 22^nd annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.