June 2025 – Kevin Chung won the Niels Lassen Award at the 2025 Brain & Brain PET Conference

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Chung for receiving the Niels Lassen Award at Brain & Brain PET 2025! This prestigious award is presented by the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism to recognize an outstanding scientific contribution made by a young scientist at the brain meeting.

More details of this award-winning work can be found in his recent two publications in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Nature Communications. This recognition highlights Kevin’s innovative contributions to brain PET imaging. His work is helping push the frontier of quantitative neuroimaging with total-body PET.

Kevin is jointly mentored by Dr. Guobao Wang, Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Radiology, and Dr. Simon Cherry, Distinguished Research Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology.