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Congratulations to our Co-Me research grant winner 2005 PD
Dr. Harriet Thoeny, radiologist at the University Hospital Bern. She
received the first prize for her scientific presentation
"Diffusion-weighted MRI of renal allografts: A comparative study to
healthy volunteers" of 2006 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in
Vienna, Austria. Her work was selected as Best Scientific Paper 2006
within the topic "Genitourinary" by the committee chairman, in
cooperation with the committee and session moderators. Selection
criteria had comprised abstract, onsite performance and images.
For Co-Me H. Thoeny's award is precious in more than one way. She was
enabled to perform her research by the support of the 2005 NCCR Co-Me
research grant (see http://co-me.ch/news/2005/thoeny.en.html).
A year ago, the Advisory Board for the Advancement of Women selected her
proposal from 9 sound applications. H. Thoeny uses the prize sum of CHF
20'000 to cover her salary for writing papers and proposals on functional
evaluation of transplanted kidneys by Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (DW-MRI). DW-MRI allows instant visualization of functional changes
in biological tissues. The challenge of her project was to detect renal
graft rejection at early stages.
The European Congress of Radiology 2006 in Vienna attracted a
record number of 16,000 participants from more than 90 countries. The
gathering focused on the recent developments in the field of
radiology.
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