Zhifeng Kou
assistant professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, was awarded a seed grant from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) for his proposed work on mild traumatic brain injury. He received the award at ISMRM's 20th Annual Meeting & Exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, May 5-11. ISMRM is a 6,000 member, pre-eminent organization in the field of MRI. Its members include MRI physicists, engineers, biochemists, computer scientists, clinicians and basic scientists in biomedicine.
According to Kou, the award is a great honor and recognition of Wayne State's traumatic brain injury research program supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research. "I would like to thank the strong support from the whole MRI center led by Dr. E. Mark Haacke," Kou said. "Many students, postdocs, research scientists and staff working behind the scene in MRI center to help our TBI program. We are also fortunate to have very strong collaborators from the emergency medicine led by Drs. Robert Welch and Brian O'Neil. In the early days, Drs. Scott Millis from Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Randall Benson from Neurology helped us set up the stage. Dr. John Woodard's team from Psychology helped patients' testing. Our radiologists Drs. Karl Kish and Conor Zuk helped review clinical images. I also sincerely appreciate the strong support from our two departments, Biomedical Engineering, led by Dr. Albert King, and Radiology, led by Dr. Wilbur Smith. Finally, I would also like to thank our Dean, Dr. Fashad Fotouhi, of the College of Engineering for his enthusiastic support. Again, this grant helps our ongoing research program, and this honor goes to our team."