Glasgow Experimental MRI Centre

GEMRIC Hall of fame

Elisa Vignaga has won the highly prestigious Dick Chorley Award 2011 from the British Society for Geomorphology for the paper: Haynes, H., Vignaga, E and Holmes, W.M. 2009. Using magnetic resonance imaging for experimental analysis of fine-sediment infiltration into gravel beds. Sedimentology.

The award recognises the most significant original published contribution to geomorphology by a current or recently graduated post-graduate student.

Elisa is a Research Assistant in the Institute of Infrastructure & Environment, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University; her paper was collaboration with Dr Heather Haynes (Heriot-Watt)  and Dr William Holmes (Glasgow Experimental MRI Centre, University of Glasgow).

Ms Vignaga was presented with her award (£500) at the BSG Annual Conference at Nottingham in June 2012.

 Emma Reid receiving her prize
PhD student Emma Reid receiving her prize from Director of Nexxus, Graeme Boyle, for the best oral presentation at the 2011 Glasgow Neuroscience Day. Her talk was entitled "Studying the ischaemic penumbra in the spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone rat with MRI".
Emma is in the final year of her PhD supervised by Dr Chris McCabe and Professor I Mhairi Macrae.

 
Friedrich Wetterling

Dr. Friedrich Wetterling, former PhD student of Dr. Andrew Fagan from Trinity College Dublin undertook a pioneering MRI study of brain sodium in experimental stroke with GEMRIC staff in 2009, which he presented at the 2010 German Medical Physicists (DGMP) conference in Freiburg on the 2nd October 2010.

Out of 24 entries Dr. Wetterling's presentation entitled "Sodium Concentration as a Marker for Tissue Viability after Ischaemic Stroke" (Co-authors: Lindsay Gallagher, Prof. I. Mhairi Macrae, Dr. Sven Junge, Dr. Andrew J. Fagan) was awarded the prestigious Siemens young investigator award (750€)

 Ramanan Baheerathan receiving second prize for his poster 'Quantifying Macromolecular Transport Processes in Biofilms with Magnetic Resonance Imaging'
Ramanan Baheerathan, a 3rd year PhD student, receiving the second prize (£2000) for his poster 'Quantifying Macromolecular Transport Processes in Biofilms with Magnetic Resonance Imaging'
Baroness Jenny Tonge, pictured here presenting Ramanan with his award, explained that there had been 30 entrants in the 2009 Anglo American Environmental Geochemistry Poster Competition, from whom the three winners had been chosen.
 Doctor Andrew Fagan

Dr Andrew Fagan, Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, & School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Andrew Fagan was awarded the Astra-Zeneca prize for the best presentation of an innovative non-human in vivo MRI or MRS research study at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ISMRM British Chapter in Cardiff September 2009. His presentation, entitled “Detection of regional variations in tissue sodium concentration changes in the acute phase of a rodent stroke model” described  the design and construction of a surface coil for measuring brain sodium levels, and the subsequent in vivo studies of brain sodium levels in an experimental stroke model which were carried out in collaboration with GEMRIC researchers.

 PhD student, Craig Robertson, receiving the Integrated Mammalian Biology poster prize, from Dr Mike Collis, Chief Executive of The Physiological Society
Craig Robertson, in his 2nd year as a PhD student receiving the Integrated Mammalian Biology poster prize, from Dr Mike Collis, Chief Executive of The Physiological Society.
Craig’s research was presented at a joint meeting  the British Pharmacological & Physiological Societies on Integrative Pharmacology and Physiology at King’s College London in September 2009. The MRI technique detects penumbra following stroke by assessing O2 metabolism: validation with [14C] 2-deoxyglucose autoradiography.  Robertson, C, McCabe, C.,Holmes, W, Gallagher, L.,  Lopez-Gonzalez, R., Brennan, D., Condon, B., Muir, K., Santosh, C., & Macrae, IM
 Doctor Chris McCabe receiving the Astra-Zeneca prize for the best presentation of an innovative non-human in-vivo MRI or MRS research study

Dr Christopher McCabe, MRI bioscientist and research fellow at GEMRIC receiving the Astra-Zeneca prize from Professor Martin Leach, Chairman of ISMRM British Chapter, at the Annual Scientific Meeting in Newcastle 2008.

His presentation "Potential use of Oxygen as a Metabolic Biosensor in combination with T2* weighted MR to define the Ischaemic Penumbra" described ongoing research to improve the diagnosis of acute stroke patients using MRI.

Photograph by Dr Ken Benjamin, Napier University, Edinburgh