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Cai group wins another award at the 2012 SNM Annual Meeting

Yin Zhang, a 4th year Medical Physics graduate student in the molecular imaging and nanotechnology laboratory, won the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council Young Investigator Award (2nd place)
at the 2012 SNM Annual Meeting in Miami. The presentation was given during the Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council Young Investigator Award Symposium, which comprised of 7 presentations selected from the best abstracts in this category.

This is the 2nd year that the Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology laboratory
submitted abstracts to the SNM annual meeting. Among the 8 abstracts submitted this year, 5 were selected as oral presentations. Dr. Hao Hong (Research Associate in the Cai Group) and Yin Zhang each won 2 awards at this meeting.

In addition, 2 abstracts from the Cai Group were highlighted during the scientific summary sections. Slides for 6 abstracts were requested by the presenters of the scientific summary section, but due to time constraints, only 2 were shown in the actual highlight lecture.