Catalyst Awards Program a Model for Other Leading Universities
Research that could revolutionize CT (computed tomography) scans – allowing better informed clinical decision-making and reducing the likelihood that patients undergo multiple scans – has been named the top winner of the Spring 2013 Catalyst Awards, a major awards program at UC San Francisco.
The innovation, using a novel contrasting agent to significantly improve CT imaging, was developed by Benjamin Yeh, MD, a professor in residence, and Yanjun Fu, PhD, an assistant researcher, both in the UCSF School of Medicine.
“With nearly 70 million CT scans performed in the U.S. each year, the implications are very significant,” says June Lee, MD, FAACP, director of the Early Translational Research program at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), which administers the Catalyst Awards. “Most important, and essential to the Catalyst Awards, is the potential for projects like this to improve patient health.”
Yeh and Fu were among 16 Catalyst Awards finalists who presented their work to a closed-door gathering of academic and industry reviewers on June 12 at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. Several other investigators working in the four Catalyst Award categories – therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health – were also awarded support to advance their research.
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