Multimodal Neuroimaging Cologne

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.