January-June Grant Highlights
Drs. Brad Christian and Hartmuth Kolb | Click Chemistry-Based a-Synuclein tPET Biomarket Discovery (Michael J. Fox Foundation through Enigma Biomedical USA)
Dr. Paul Ellison | Novel xCT Receptor-Targeted PET Imaging for Detection of Glioblastoma Stem Cell-Driven Invasion (National Cancer Institute)
Dr. Reinier Hernandez | Targeting Radiopharmaceutical Therapy-Induced Senescence to Improve Response in Prostate Cancer (Wisconsin Prostate Cancer SPORE Developmental Research Program)
Dr. Reinier Hernandez | Disrupting DNA damage repair to potentiate the efficacy of radiopharmaceutical theranostics agents in advanced prostate cancer (Wisconsin Partnership Program)
Dr. Reinier Hernandez | Theranostic radiopharmaceutical therapy alone or in combination with CAR T cells for pediatric medulloblastoma (Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation)
Dr. Malick Idrissou (Reinier Hernandez) | Next-Generation Radiotherapeutics: ¹⁶¹Tb-ART-101 Toward Curative Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer (Wisconsin Partnership Program)
Dr. Hartmuth Kolb | Discovery of a TDP-43 PET Tracer Lead (Alzheimer’s Association)
Drs. Ivan Rosado-Mendez, Kevin Eliceiri, Kevin Johnson | MRI-based Quantification of Perfusion and Microstructure (NIH)
Dr. S.A. Amali S. Subasinghe (Marty Pagel) | Improved detection of breast cancer during imaging and surgery with a new contrast agent (Wisconsin Partnership Program)
Dr. Tomas Vikner (Kevin Johnson) | Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease (BrightFocus Foundation)
January-June Patent Highlights
Jan. 20, 2026 | Drs. Ke Li and Kevin Treb | Systems and Methods for Controlling Pileup Losses in Computed Tomography
Feb. 10, 2026 | Drs. Martin Wagner, Joseph Whitehead, Michael Speidel, Paul Laeseke | System and Method for Flow or Velocity Quantification Using Contrast-Enhanced X-ray Data
June 16, 2026 | Drs. Brandon Walker, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Nathan Schumacher | High Energy 3-D Printer Employing Continuous Print Path