CTSC:TTIC.081010

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Agenda

1. Consultations
2. Rountable on clinical and applications of imaging
3. Education
4. Competing renewal

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes August 10, 2010

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Laura Alice
• Randy Gollub
• Charles Guttmann
• Simon Warfield
• Bob Lenkinski
• Jeff Yap
• Annick Van den Abbeele
• Clare Tempany
• Wendy Plesniak
• Ivan Pedrosa
• Gordon Harris

1. Consultations

• JIRA 174: The goal of the project is to use fMRI to assess neural functional reserve mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis patients. Valerie ask the requester to get in touch with the research navigators to get more feedback on his pilot grant application.
• JIRA 175: Structural and functional MRI to evaluate pain in RA, OA and healthy controls. Randy will work on that consultation, she already knows the investigator.

2. Roundtable on clinical and applications of imaging

• The goal is for the meetings to be less a seminar than an opportunity for the experts (presenters) to interact with members of our communities who might be interested in learning about and/or using the resources under consideration. It is really a place to network.
• The research navigators will invite investigators who expressed interest in imaging but are not imagers and have no one from the imaging community in their group.
• The group decided to invite Ann Schlesinger, Research Navigator, to next week t-con so she can answers the questions we might have.

3. Education

• RSNA practice talk for education session: Thu 11/18/2010 12:00pm - 2:00pm (*11:45am - 2:00pm) Armenise Bldg, (D) Amphitheater. We will start to advertise that session soon.

4. Competing renewal

• The group brainstormed about the idea to include imaging at a more cellular level (microscopy, molecular imaging etc). We talked about eventual roundtables with junior faculty in pathology, learn what they need to thrive, find a space to support them.
• During the spring sessions of our imaging series, the oncology sessions featured talks about preclinical imaging that were very well received by the audience.
• Ivan mentioned the problem of anatomical and pathological co-registration. It is very difficult and requires a lot of resources.
  • Clare agreed that it is very important when one is doing prostate imaging.
  • Randy mentioned K. Fishl group at MGH who does high resolution MRI and registration with histology. It is a very specific technic, they scan tissues for hours to be able to get that high resolution.
  • Simon has a couple of tools: he works on electron microscopy data, his Harvard Catalyst pilot grant will cover the subject.
• We can not forget that we need to be able to give investigators money to do some pilot scans, it is crucial to be able to support imaging studies.
• We will continue our efforts in building a protocol for multicenter studies and image phantoms across institutions.