Awards and Honors: May 22, 2008

Posted 08:56 AM, May 22, 2008, by jaruiz

Juergen K. Willmann, MD, assistant professor of radiology (abdominal imaging), has received a research seed grant from the Radiological Society of North America Research and Education Foundation for his project, "Development and Validating of a Multi-Targeted Contrast Agent for Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis in Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer." Prior to becoming an assistant professor at Stanford, Dr. Willmann was a research fellow in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) while concurrently an assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at the Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. He received his MD from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, and was the chief resident of diagnostic radiology at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. In 2007, Dr. Willmann received the RSNA Trainee Research Fellow Award for his research project, "Molecular Imaging of Therapeutic Angiogenesis in Murine Hindlimb Ischemia Using PET and 64Cu-labeled Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor121." His research interests include multimodality molecular imaging of angiogenesis and stem cell therapy and the development of new ultrasonic imaging approaches for the early detection of cancer. When he is not working, Dr. Willmann enjoys fitness training, hiking, and playing the piano.