June 2024: We welcome Dr. Konstanze Guggenberger from the University of Würzburg as a visiting Research Scholar to the Song Lab for the Summer!

Dec 2024: RSNA meet-up of carotid enthusiasts to brainstorm carotid projects with Drs. Tobias Saam (Munich, Germany), Luca Saba (Cagliari, Italy) and Mahmud Mossa-Basha (UWash, USA) and his UW entourage!

Feb 2025: Dr. Yu Sakai, Penn Radiology Resident (PGY5/R4) presents his work during a Moderated Poster Session at the 2025 International Stroke Conference at Los Angeles, CA!

Feb 2025: Dr. Pargol Balali (StrokeNET fellow) presents her poster at the 2025 International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles, CA!

Feb 2025: Dr. Sakai receives the ASNR Member-In-Training Travel Award to present his work on photon-counting CT and carotid plaques! Read the announcement here. #ASNR25

Mar 2025: Our work is featured as the Cover Image of the March Issue of Stroke!

Mar 2025: We congratulate Dr. Yu Sakai on his ASNR Trainee Research Grant! His grant is entitled, “Imaging biomarkers of complex aortic arch plaque in acute ischemic stroke”.

May 2023: Nathan Arnett (MS4) presents his work on carotid plaque calcifications at ESOC in Munich, Germany!

Aug 2024: DUCOM MS3, Huy Phi, BS, is awarded 2nd place for his Scientific Presentation at ENRS 2024!

Sept 2024: Congratulations to Huy Phi, BS for being awarded the RSNA Medical Student Travel Scholarship to Present his Work at 2024 RSNA in Chicago!

Aug 2023: Penn Radiology Resident, Dr. Yu Sakai, is awarded the Robert D. Zimmerman Scientific Award at ENRS 2023!

Feb 2024: Cooper University Medical Student, Manisha Koneru, MS, presents about the Plaque-RADS classification at ISC in Phoenix, AZ!

Feb 2024: Research Team Dinner at the International Stroke Conf in Phoenix, AZ to celebrate productive stroke imaging collaborations with the Seoul National University Hospital Team!

May 2023: Dr. Song is invited to teach the MGB residents and give Grand Rounds to the MGH/BWH Depts of Radiology on Vessel Wall Imaging!

Nov 2022: Radiology residents Drs. Marius Vogt and Konstanze Guggenberger from the University of Würzburg present their work on orbital and vessel wall MR imaging in giant cell arteritis in Chicago! See twitter teaser here!

Dec 2022: Dr. Song is recognized for her commitment to stroke research by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.

Feb 2023: Dr. Yu Sakai (Penn Radiology Resident) presents his work on aortic plaque in stroke & formed new friendships with Dr. Jesús Juega from Vall d´Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona!

Mar 2023: Celebrating everyone’s accomplishments and congratulating PSOM MS4 Nathan Arnett, BS for Matching to Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Interventional Radiology Residency Program! We will miss him!

Apr 2023: Dr. Song presents on how to build a clinical imaging program as part of ASNR’s Education Advances!

Apr 2023: Dr. Hugh Curtin shares career advice and inspiration with the Song Lab!

Feb 2022: Song Lab goes to NOLA! Collaborative work with Drs. Brett Cucchiara and Zhaoyang Fan is shared with other stroke researchers! Find other abstracts here in Stroke.

May 2022: Congratulations to Penn MS4 Joey Saucedo, BS on his ARRS 2022 award winning educational exhibit!

May 2022: Brianna Moon, PhD, presently a postdoctoral fellow at MGH Martinos with Dr. Peter Caravan, presents work at London ISMRM-ESMRMB 2022! We are thrilled to see her continue to thrive!

June 2022: We welcome Penn medical student Quynh-Anh Dang to the Song Lab! We are delighted to have Anh bridge the collaboration between Vascular Surgery with Dr. Grace Wang and Neuroradiology!

Aug 2022: Dr. Song speaks at ASFNR about processes for Implementation and Translational Imaging Research— how to build a clinical imaging program!

Sept 2022: Team dinner at Louie Louie’s to celebrate everyone’s hard work over the summer!

Sept 2022: Congratulations to Quynh-Anh Dang, BS (MS2) on her first 1st author publication in Stroke! Read her NeuroImage publication here: Stroke

Sept 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Pavlou on his first 1st author publication on Diagnostic Accuracy Studies in Radiology: How to Recognize and Address Potential Sources of Bias published in Radiology Research and Practice!

Sept 2021: We welcome Dr. Yu Sakai to the Song Lab! We are excited to have his drive and enthusiasm to conduct stroke research!

Oct 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Mattay and Joey Saucedo (MS4) on their publication on Vessel Wall MRI in Seminars of Ultrasound, CT, and MR.

Nov 2021: Dr. Song will be speaking on Global Trends of Vessel Wall MRI at the International Congress on MRI held in Seoul, Korea!

Jan 2022: We welcome Penn medical student Yvonne Su to the Song Lab! Yvonne matched with Dr. Song for the Penn Diagnostic Radiology Summer Research Program. We are excited to have her energy and creativity to contribute to stroke research!

Feb 2022: Congratulations to Ishaan Bhatt, BS who was awarded the DUCOM Alumni Association Professional Development Grant for his 2022 ASNR Accepted Abstract entitled, “Sex-Differences of Cervical Carotid and Intracranial Atherosclerosis.”

May 2021: Dr. Song will be speaking about intracranial vessel wall MRI as part of the Cardiovascular: Vascular Pathology & Imaging Education Session at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

May 2021: Dr. Wang was spotlighted by Penn Medicine. Watch here!

July 2021: We welcome Ishaan Bhatt to the Song Lab! We are excited to have him as part of the team studying sex-differences in stroke imaging.

Aug 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Tewkesbury on her 1st author NeuroImage publication about Anti-GFAP astrocytopathy in Annals of Neurology!

May 2021: Congratulations to Nathan Arnett (MS2) on his first 1st author publication on vessel wall MR imaging of vasculitis published in Neuroradiology with the Song Lab! We wish him the best of luck as he begins his medical school clerkship rotations!

Nov 2019: Dr. Song participated in the Nobel Prize Dialogues (Towards Health: Equality, Responsibility and Research) in Berlin, Germany! Watch here!

June 2020: We welcome Nathan Arnett to the Song Lab! Nathan was selected and matched with Dr. Song through the Penn Department of Radiology Summer Research Program for Medical Students.

Nov 2020: Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Moon on her successful doctoral dissertation defense! We look forward to seeing your continued successes and will miss you at Penn! Read her Nature Communications publication!

Mar 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Pavlou on a successful Match into Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center-Advanced track! We look forward to following your journey!

Nov 2019: Dr. John Kirsch visited from the Martinos Research Center/MGH to teach us MR physics! Drs. Song and Witschey also organized a joint happy hour with Prof Felix Wehrli on “Conversations on Career Transitions as an MR Physicist: Industry, Academia & at the Interface.”