October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month 🎗️
Behind every early detection is a researcher pushing imaging forward. This month, we're proud to spotlight 2026 Distinguished Investigator Rebecca Rakow-Penner, MD, PhD.@RakowPenner
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🎉Congratulations to our 2026 Academy Distinguished Investigators! We’re celebrating all 55 honorees in the weeks leading up to RSNA. Thread 1/5
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5/5 🎉Berkin Bilgic, PhD @MassGenBrigham @harvardmed
Develops MRI acquisition & reconstruction tech using MR physics, self-supervised AI, open-source sequences & novel hardware. Created Wave-CAIPI: 10x faster clinical imaging via high-channel-count receivers. Congrats! 👏
4/5 🎉Janine Bijsterbosch, PhD @WashUMedMIR
Uses computational neuroimaging & large datasets to find brain markers of mental health: reproducible depression correlates in 6 datasets, brain profiles tied to symptom dimensions & network shape/location sensitive to behavior. 👏
3/5 🎉Marta Bianciardi, PhD @MassGenBrigham
Pioneered ultra-high-field MRI of the living human brainstem, built a brainstem nuclei atlas & the first brainstem-cortical connectivity maps. Now: MRI biomarkers of prodromal Parkinson’s, disorders of consciousness & sleep disorders.
2/5 🎉Ramon Barajas Jr MD @OHSURadiology
Dr. Barajas Jr., a neuroradiologist and physician-scientist, develops and clinically translates advanced imaging biomarkers, emphasizing quantitative imaging genomics, neuroinflammation, and molecular radiotheranostics. Congratulations!👏
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Congratulations to Dr. Barajas on his acceptance into the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research’s 2026 Council of Distinguished Investigators!
Learn more about the Council of Distinguished Investigators here: acadrad.org/award-descriptio…
📩 This week's Policy & Legislative Update is out now. Read: bit.ly/PLU_10_16
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🔬Science needs Stability! Organizations are invited to sign on to the coalition letter by COB Wednesday, October 21: bit.ly/SIGNLETTER
🔬Science needs Stability! Organizations are invited to sign on to the coalition letter by COB Wednesday, October 21: bit.ly/SIGNLETTER
🎉Congratulations to our 2026 Academy Distinguished Investigators! We’re celebrating all 55 honorees in the weeks leading up to RSNA. Today: four researchers advancing brain, neurovascular, and AI-enabled imaging. 🧵 #Radiology #MedicalImaging #rsna
5/5 🎉Dr. Chaitra Badve led the first clinical application of MR Fingerprinting in adult brain tumors, opening the door to non-invasive, quantitative tumor characterization through multi-institutional, NIH-funded team science. @CWRUimaging @cwru
4/5🎉 Dr. Mark A. Anastasio builds the math behind AI-enabled imaging: more accurate photoacoustic imaging, machine learning methods to evaluate imaging systems, and frameworks for detecting AI “hallucinations” in medical images. @WashUMedMIR




















