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2020 SINAPSE ASM: Submit abstracts!
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The deadline for abstract submission for the 2020 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting is now under two weeks away (12th March 2020). We encourage SINAPSE members and students to submit abstracts on research that uses MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, EEG, MEG, ultrasound, or human optical imaging. Awards will be given for best proffered papers, best poster, and research with the greatest potential impact. More details...
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Postdoctoral and Early Career Researcher Exchanges
SINAPSE funds are available for early career researchers using medical imaging technologies to spend at least one month with partner organisations in Europe, North America, India or China, in academic year 2019-20 or 2020-21.
Awards can be used to provide research training and development opportunities while at the same time building experience of international collaboration with academia and/or industry. Click here for more details on the PECRE scheme, and the application form.
The closing date for applications is 1st May 2020.
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Scottish-European Crucible
Scotland's research pools (including SINAPSE) are involved in a new interdisciplinary European Crucible event aiming to gather together future research leaders from Scotland with their counterparts from across Europe. Applications are invited from early/mid-career research leaders in Scotland interested in contributing to ‘innovative collaborations at the interfaces between Life Sciences and other disciplines’, to participate in the highly intensive and interactive two-day European Crucible event taking place in Luxembourg on 6 and 7 May 2020. Application deadline: 9th March. More details...
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Summer imaging research conferences
See below for details of two major international imaging research conferences with SINAPSE involvement being held in Scotland this summer.
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The Total-body PET 2020 conference, taking place in Edinburgh and directly following the 2020 SINAPSE ASM, will focus on new developments and systems for total-body, preclinical and clinical, PET imaging as well as research and clinical applications of this game-changing technology.
The preliminary programme is now available, featuring keynote presentations from Prof Adriaan A. Lammertsma (Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Netherlands) and Prof Zahi A. Fayad (Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, USA), as well as educational sessions covering the topics of Total-body PET system design, Image reconstruction, Kinetic modelling, Quantitative assessment of drug-drug interactions, and Radiotracer development. Additionally, the conference social programme includes dinner at the National Museum of Scotland (with the opportunity to visit Dolly) and visits to the Surgeons' Anatomy Museum or Edinburgh Imaging facilities.
Conference registration is now open, with early-bird rates available until 30 March, and the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to 1 April. All accepted abstracts will be published within EJNMMI Physics, and the best proffered talk by a young investigator will win the ESMI Molecular Imaging Award.
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Glasgow will be hosting the 12th FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies) Forum – Europe's largest international neuroscience meeting – this July. Although imaging is just one of many domains of neuroscience research encompassed by FENS, there will be neuroimaging researchers from around the world in attendance at the event, and the following activities associated with the event may be of special interest to SINAPSE members:
- We are delighted that SINAPSE will welcome FENS delegates to Scotland with a networking event to bring together all in attendance at the event who use, or are interested in using, neuroimaging research methods. This networking event will take place in the Forum venue (Scottish Events Centre) on Sunday 12 July, starting from 6:45pm.
- This OHBM-organised Mini Conference, exploring structural and functional organization across multi-scale networks in human, monkey and rodent brains, will take place in the Forum venue (Scottish Events Centre) on Saturday 11 July, from 8:30am to 3:00pm. Speakers will take a multidisciplinary approach to data that bridges the gap between different levels of brain organization.
- An international conference designed exclusively with early career neuroscientists in mind, on the theme of "Translational Neuroscience", will take place on 9-11 July in Glasgow's Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel.
- Neuroscience-based public engagement activities will take place in the Glasgow Science Centre on 4 and 5 July (the weekend before the Forum).
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Funding calls
Currently open funding calls which may be of interest to SINAPSE researchers:
Within-SINAPSE Exchange Funding
Early career researchers may apply for up to £1,000 to visit another SINAPSE-affiliated site in order to obtain imaging-related training and skills development not available locally. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant
Up to £15k in research project funding for Early Career Researchers at Scottish Universities. Closing date: 17 March 2020
NEW Royal Society International Collaboration Awards
Up to £225k over three years for outstanding UK research leaders to develop international collaborations with the best leading researchers from around the world, addressing the Global Challenges Research Fund agenda. Closing date: 2 April 2020
NEW RSE Enterprise Fellowships
One year's salary, up to £10k support funding, and expert training in entrepreneurship to help achieve the ambitions of researchers and academic innovators who have promising business ideas. Closing date: 3 April 2020
NEW UKRI Innovation Scholars secondments: biomedical sciences
Up to £300k for individuals from any discipline to spend up to 36 months on secondment in the biomedical sciences sector. Closing date (Strand 1): 15 April 2020
Innovate UK Smart grants
Open grant funding for projects led by a UK-based business [of any size] or a research and technology organisation (RTO) to deliver ambitious or disruptive R&D innovations with a view to commercialisation. Closing date: 22 April 2020
NEW British Heart Foundation
Closing date: 22 April 2020
Radiological Research Trust Research Grant
Up to £5k targeted at early career researchers and/or novel projects in need of pump priming funds. Closing date: 31 May 2020
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Image of the Month: Brain MRI associations with vascular risk factors
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Our March Image of the Month, courtesy of Dr Simon Cox and Dr Donald Lyall, shows associations between cortical volume derived from brain MRI and an aggregate vascular risk factor (VRF) measure, from a sample of more than 7,900 participants in the UK Biobank study. The t-map (left) illustrates modest but widespread significant associations between higher aggregate vascular risk and lower cortical volume, especially in anterior lateral and medial temporal lobes. The FDR-corrected q-map (right) indicates relative sparing of dorsal motor/somatosensory and posterior cortical regions. Significant associations also were found between higher aggregate VRF and lower volumes in subcortical brain structures, and between higher aggregate VRF and poorer white matter microstructure in association and thalamic pathways. Although the complex interplay between vascular and cerebral ageing is not yet well understood, these findings demonstrate that factors known to increase risk for cerebrovascular disease and dementia show small but significant associations with MRI measures of poorer brain health in a relatively healthy sample of adults in middle and older age.
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SINAPSE Member Profile: Dr Carola Daniel
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Carola Daniel graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, in Munich in 2011 and went on to work in clinical practice in Germany. In 2013 Carola returned to academia working at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, where she started specialising in large animals, particularly horses. The time in Vienna spiked her interest in research and she subsequently moved to Edinburgh in 2014 to complete a PhD in Clinical Veterinary Sciences at The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS. During this time, Carola developed a keen interest in imaging. She was therefore delighted to join the University of Edinburgh in 2019 as research fellow in large animal imaging and lecturer in veterinary anatomy. Carola's aim is to promote a strong connection between research, clinical and pre-clinical work and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. In the field of imaging Carola is dividing her time between clinical imaging, where she is a senior clinical training scholar (resident) preparing to become a specialist of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, and large animal research imaging at the new Large Animal Research and Imaging Facility (LARIF).
The LARIF is opening this month and will offer unparalleled imaging, surgical, critical care, gene-editing and containment facilities, facilitating exceptional specialist capability for in-depth studies into the health and wellbeing of all major farmed livestock. Users can capitalise on the University of Edinburgh’s world-leading animal health expertise in farm animal production, health and welfare – including infectious diseases, zoonoses, vaccines, genetics, and imaging. Available imaging modalities include 3T MRI, 64-slice CT, fluoroscopy and ultrasound. Mobile PET-CT imaging is also available on request and radiotracers can be supplied from the local Edinburgh Imaging Radiochemistry Facility. The LARIF imaging facilities benefit from close collaboration and support from Edinburgh Imaging.
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Upcoming Events
8th Annual Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum
12 March 2020
Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
Technology Innovations for Healthcare
How sensing, imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can be used in health & social care in Scotland
12 March 2020
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Medical Imaging Convention 2020
17-18 March 2020
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England
The UK’s dedicated event that offers a comprehensive program on the latest innovations in imaging diagnosis and treatment, to UK-based medical imaging professionals and their senior management teams. The event provides the most up-to-date research, data and developments that can enable better patient outcomes, efficiency and cost-effectiveness in UK medical imaging.
9th SINAPSE Neuro-oncology Imaging Meeting
19 March 2020
West Park Conferencing & Events, 319 Perth Road, Dundee
Final programme available at the event link above
15th European Molecular Imaging Meeting
24-27 March 2020
Thessaloniki, Greece
2020 Radiological Imaging & Intervention Symposium Edinburgh (RiiSE) Conference
4 April 2020
Chancellor’s Building, Edinburgh BioQuarter
Scottish Dementia Research Consortium Annual Conference 2020
Deadline for submitting poster abstracts: 9th March
20 April 2020
Radisson Blu, 301 Argyle St, Glasgow
Scottish Clinical Imaging Network (SCIN) Annual Event 2020
30 April 2020
Glasgow Caledonian University
1st National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) Conference
5 May 2020
New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus, King's College London
Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference (MIUA) 2020
Deadline for submitting papers: 31st March
15-17 July 2020
St Anne's College, University of Oxford
Save The Date: 9th November 2020
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