The Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research

2007
NMR Center staff member, Lesley M. Foley, was selected as a poster finalist at the 2007 Neurotrauma society Meeting for her work titled "Effect of inducible nitric oxide synthase on cerebral blood flow following head trauma." more

NMR Center Investigator, Dr. Mio Manole, received 2nd prize for her poster entitled "Magnetic Resonance Assessment of Cerebral Blood Flow After Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest in Developing Rats" more

Dr. Chien Ho awarded a grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood institute to continue developing non-invasive MRI based techniques to detect organ rejection.

2006
Dr. Chien Ho's research "MRI tracking of transplantation rejection" featured in "This Week in PNAS"
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Dr. Chien Ho's work featured on the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering web page. link to NIBIB article.

Dr. Chien Ho's group Develops a non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at the cellular level more here. News stories can be found in The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , the NY times

2005
NMR Center staff member, Dr. Yijen L. Wu, received 1st prize for her talk titled "Non-invasive in vivo 'histology': visualizing single immune cells in acute allograft rejection after heterotopic heart transplantation with micrometer-sized iron oxide containing particles" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. more

Dr Eric Ahrens' work using floorine-based cellular contrast agents featured in "New and Views" in Nature Biotechnology. more

Dr. Eric Ahrens' work using MRI to visualize gene expression in living animals featured in The Scientist , Carnegie Mellon Today and Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow

2004
Dr Eric Ahrens' work, "Imaging Study Reveals Sex-based Differences That Persist As Mice Enter Adulthood", featured in Science Daily

Dr. Eric Ahrens awarded grant from the National Institute of Biomedical imaging and Bioengineering to develop novel MRI tools to visualize individual cells in vivo. more

2003
Dr. Eric Ahrens' research featured in "Medical Imaging"

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