2006-09-07: Ken Y. Lin, BS has been chosen by the RSNA Scientific Program Committee to receive the RSNA Trainee Research Prize for the research project "Novel Imaging Method and Morphometric Analyses of Microvasculature in Live Mice Using a Fiber Optic Confocal Laser Microprobe" in the category "Medical Student".
2006-09-06: Dr. Pittet's work with regulatory T cells is highlighted by Nature Reviews Immunology (pdf) , Nature Medicine (pdf) and Harvard FOCUS (pdf)
2006-07-10: Nanotech News section of cancer.gov features CMIR work in creating a multifunctional nanoparticle-based imaging agent capable of pinpointing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (pdf)
2006-05-17: Kenneth Kozloff, PhD received the Harold Frost young investigator award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
2006-03-26: Congratulations to Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD who was awarded the 2006 Distinguished Basic Scientist Award from the Academy of Molecular Imaging at their Annual Meeting in Orlando Florida, March 25-29, 2006. (pdf)
2006-03-24: First CMIR wedding has been officiated in the Simches Research Building
2006-03-09: Dr. Weissleder is ranked 5th by the Total Citation Score in Nanomedicine Lab Registry (pdf)
2005-11-09: NanoBiotech News features CMIR work as part of MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanothechnology Excellence. (pdf)
2005-11-03: Nature Reviews Cancer Highlights features CMIR work in Cancer Imaging. (pdf)
2005-10-31: The Boston Globe features CMIR work in Nanotechnology. (pdf)
2005-10-04: NCI establishes MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence as part of a five-year initiative for nanotechnology in cancer research. The Center will focus on diversified nanoplatforms for targeted therapy, diagnostics, noninvasive imaging and molecular sensing. Principal investigators: Robert Langer, Ph.D. (MIT), and Ralph Weissleder, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard University, MGH, CMIR). (press release)
2005-09-16: "Decisions in Imaging Economics" cover story - Molecular Imaging Now: Q & A with Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD.
2005-08-22: Elena Aikawa, MD, PhD has been selected to become a Finalist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Cardiovascular Young Investigator's Forum.
2005-08-15: The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Harvard a five-year, $15.6 million grant to develop novel nanotechnologies to diagnose and treat heart, lung and blood diseases. Ralph Weissleder, HMS Professor, directs the program. Other Harvard principal investigators include Drs. Peter Libby (BWH), Stuart Schreiber (FAS, Broad), Stanley Shaw (MGH, Broad) Steven Shapiro (BWH), Lee Josephson (MGH, CMIR), Richard Lee (BWH) and Farouc Jaffer (MGH, CMIR). MIT investigators include Drs. Timothy Swager and Francesco Stellacci. Press release.
2005-06-07: Dr. Jaffer is selected to become an American College of Cardiology Fellow .
2005-05-29: CMIR Mouse Imaging Program moves to a new space at the Charles River Plaza Research Building.
2005-05-01: Elena Aikawa (Rabkin) MD, PhD, joins the CMIR.
2005-02-23: CMIR takes a tour of its space in a newly built Charles River Plaza Research Building. The move is scheduled for May, 2005.
2005-01-18: The following grants have recently been awarded to faculty members:
Kimberly Kelly, PhD: Lustgarten Foundation Grant and AdMeTech Grant
Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD: ACCF Award in Cardiovascular Imaging
Robert Ross, MD, PhD: DF/HCC Renal Cancer SPORE Development Project Award
Khalid Shah, PhD: Grant from the American Brain Tumor Association
2005-01-03: CMIR and Dr. Jaffer are featured in the Harvard Medical Intrnational newsletter.
2005-01-03: Dr. Mahmood's work with Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. is featured in the Boston Globe.
2004-12-15: Dr. Weissleder is featured in MGH Radiology Times.
2004-11-03: Robarts Research Institute awards Dr. Weissleder 20th annual
2004-10-18: CMIR work is featured on the HMS homepage.
2004-10-11: CMIR Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Program is now on-line.
2004-10-06: Dr. Weissleder is recognized as one of "RT Image's 25 Most Influential in the radiology industry". RT Image article
2004-09-30: Farouc A. Jaffer, M.D., Wins Second Annual Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Award. Press Release
2004-09-12: NCI launches nanotechnology initiative. USA Today article.
2004-09-09:
SMI 2004
New Tool from Center for Molecular Imaging Research (MIPortal), bonSAI and X-SPECT Imaging Systems to be Showcased by Siemens. Press Release.
2004-08-20: Work from our lab is featured on Harvard's "LabWorks - A window on Harvard Medical Research"
2004-08-17: PNAS article appears on fluorescence mediated tomography (FMT), a novel quantitative imaging method (PDF file).
2004-08-15: PNAS article on early detection of diabetes (PDF file). See also news releaseby Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard's Focus.
2004-04-09: CMIR Chemistry and Molecular Libraries Programs are now on-line.
2004-02-17: CMIR announces a number of open positions.
2003-12-16: Dr. Weissleder receives Millennium "Innovator in Medicine" Award.
2003-12-16: Dr. Weissleder receives the "Achievement Award" from the Society of Molecular Imaging.
2003-12-12: Science article. Work from our laboratory is featured. (Science 302:1880-1882, 2003) PDF file
2003-11-21: Modern Drug Discovery article. In the most recent issue our JACS paper on Viral detection was published. PDF file
2003-11-16: New Gamma Medica SPECT/CT system is installed.
2003-08-21: Siemens Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is installed. This is the first phase of our effort to buid IT platform for storage & management of molecular imaging information.
2003-07-21: CMIR and Siemens Medical announced broad based collaboration in molecular imaging. PDF file
2003-07-14: NIAID awards PPG for diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. PI's: Drs Mathis and Weissleder. Other investigators include C. Benoist, R. Jackson, M. Harisinghani and U. Mahmood.
2003-07-11:
Harvard Focus article.
Work from our laboratory is featured. More Information
2003-07-02: Drs. Perez, Khazaie, Grimm, Jaffer join as staff. We welcome four new staff to CMIR. Dr. Perez joins us after finishing his postdoc at CMIR (chemistry). Dr. Khazaie holds a joint appointment at DFCC and CMIR. Dr Grimm is a board certified radiologist and Dr. Jaffer recently completed his interventional cardiology fellowship at MGH
2003-07-01: Welcome to all the new fellows: Drs. Alex Guimaraes, Kevin Hoover, Jason McCarthy, Mikael Pittet, Helen Shih, David Sosnovik, Antoine Soubret, Misha Pivovarov, Maha Torabi
2003-06-21: Visit our newly established Clinical Discovery Program
2003-06-20: The SAIRP funded Mouse Imaging Program (MIP) moves into new facilities More information
2003-06-19: NEJM article on lymph node staging. PDF file
2003-05-24:
Reynolds foundation awards 24 Million to Harvard's atherosclerosis program. Project leaders are Drs Libby, Ridker, Kwiatkowsky and Weissleder.
(News link; Reynolds link)
2003-05-01: The News Section is backafter a two year hiatus.
2001-07-26: Nature publishes News article on imaging. Work from our laboratory is featured. PDF file
2001-07-15: The new website is up!
2001-07-01:
Drs. Mahmood, Ntziachristos and Schellingerhout
We welcome three new staff to CMIR. Drs. Mahmood and Schellingerhout join us after finishing their Radiology residency and fellowship. Dr. Ntziachristos finished his fellowship at CMIR.
2001-06-01:
Nature Medicine
This paper describes the use of novel reporter probes to image MMP-2 activity in animals. PDF file.
2000-08-01:
NFCR Opens Center for Molecular Analysis and Imaging
More information
1999-06-15:
Dr. Basilion
Jim Basilion, PhD, joins the CMIR as a Senior Scientist. Dr. Basilion did his fellowship at NCI (R. Klausner) and then joined Variagenics, Cambridge.
1999-06-10:
Article in the Harvard Gazette
Harvard’s gazette publishes on our work. More information.
1999-05-22:
Bioconjugate Chemistry
Our novel Tat-derived magnetic particles appear on the cover page of Bioconjugate Chemistry. (Bioconj Chemsitry 1999;10:186)
1999-04-30:
Article in Focus
Harvard Medical School’s Focus magazine publishes on our work. More information.
1999-03-30:
Nature Biotech
Nature Biotech publishes first in vivo images of enzyme activities in tumors (Nature Biotech, 1999;17:375-378). PDF file
1998-05-15:
Science
Science journal features a news story on the future of molecular imaging (Science, 1998;280:1010)
1997-11-06:
Dr. Josephson
Lee Josephson, PhD, joins the CMIR as a Senior Visiting Research Scientist. Dr. Josephson was formerly Director of Research at Advanced Magnetics, Cambridge.