Robert Lubomierski joins MMNI as PhD Candidate
Robert Lubomierski has joined the MMNI as a PhD candidate (April 2025), where he will support the ongoing DoMoCo study on Parkinson's disease. Welcome, Robert!
Merle Hoenig and Elena Doering receive abstract award at ECCN '25
Dr. Hoenig and Dr. Doering’s works were selected among the five best abstracts at the European Conference for Clinical Neuroscience, held in Madrid (March 2025).
Elena Doering receives research funding from the Brandau-Laibach Foundation
As part of the funding from the Brandau-Laibach Foundation (January 2025), the project to estimate different “Brain Age Gaps” (BAGs) will be supported with EUR 26,500 for the years 2025/26.
3rd Symposium of Molecular Imaging in Neurodegeneration in Cologne (MINC) '24
We were happy to host the third MINC symposium under the guiding theme “Uncharted Territories of Imaging inNeurodegeneration” on Dec 12-13, 2024.
Find the program here.
Elena Doering receives Best Paper Award from Hans-und-Ilse-Breuer Stiftung
At this year's Eibsee Meeting (November 2024), Elena Doering received the 2nd place of the Best Paper Award from the Hans-und-Ilse-Breuer Stiftung for her study on Brain Age and Alzheimer's disease progression.
Find the article here.
Elena Doering becomes "Dr. nat. med. Elena Doering"
Elena Doering successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Positron Emission Tomography for the Timely Diagnosis and Prognosis of Alzheimer’s Disease", with distinction (October 2024).
– Congratulations!
Merle Hoenig's abstracts was Top Rated at EANM '24
At the European Academy of Nuclear Medicine Conference, held in Hamburg (September 2024), Dr. Hoenig’s work was listed among the Top Abstracts of the Neuroimaging session.
Verena Dzialas receives DAAD scholarship
To foster her work on artificial intelligence biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease, Verena Dzialas received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research visit to the University of Iceland (September 2024).
Dr. Gérard Bischof becomes "PD Dr. Gérard Bischof"
Dr. Bischof successfully completed the habilitation procedure (May 2024) and is now "PD Dr. Gérard Bischof".
– Congratulations!
Adrian Asendorf receives poster award at SFB Retreat '24
Elena Doering receives Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Medical Imaging '24
At SPIE Medical Imaging 2024, held in San Diego, Elena Doering was awarded the Robert F. Wagner All Conference Best Student Paper Award.
Merle Hoenig and Elena Doering's abstracts were Top Rated at EANM '23
At the European Academy of Nuclear Medicine Conference, held in Vienna (September 2023), Dr. Hoenig and Elena Doering’s work were listed among the Top Abstracts of the Neuroimaging session.
Verena Dzialas receives "Highlights in Artificial Intelligence" recognition at MDS '23
At the annual congress of the Movement Disorders Society, held in Coppenhagen, Verena Dzialas poster was recognized as one of the "Highlights in Artificial Intelligence".
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For her talk “Gray Matter Volume Loss in Proposed Brain-First and Body-First Parkinson’s Disease Subtypes” Magdalena Banwinkler received an award at the Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Parkinson Gesellschaft 2022.
Read the full article here.
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.
He received the best poster award at the 2022 Congress of the German Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society.
To support his research on “Progression of Parkinson’s Disease in F-DOPA PET and fMRI”, Maximilian received a fellowship from the collaborative research centre 1451 (CRC1451) Key mechanisms of motor control in health and disease.
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 14th 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 14th 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
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 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.
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.
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 22nd annual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.