1. Dr. Jeong Geun-Hong, a Professor and an army officer from the Korea Military Academy 육사 , gave a talk on his research in the Pines Lab at UC Berkeley. A very interesting case, he got his PhD at Berkeley while being a soldier, supported by the Korean government scholarship. His research involved a characteristic, novel, Pines lab-type of work, combining concepts of optical magnetic resonance and hyperpolarization. Strategies for a viable research collaboration with our center were discussed in a post-seminar meeting.
2. Dr. Lee gave an invited lecture on QSM at Samsung Medical Center. Several (>10) medical doctors in the field of neurology attended. Hopefully meaningful MD-PhD collaboration may come out of this meeting, leveraging facilities and expertise on quantitative MRI at CNIR.
3. The ICMRI conference is shaping up to be a good one, to be held in just one week. The organizing committee met for the last time in Seoul, to go through the last items (such as number of poster awards) to be discussed before the meeting. The registrant count is approximately 850, although more than half got free registration. About 100 registered are from outside Korea. An unfortunate news was an announcement from several invited Chinese researchers that they will boycott the meeting this time, due to national political issues.
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