Abstract Competition Winners

First Place 

Abstract #7 – University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Title: Development of Next Generation Extracellular Vesicle Based Urine Tests for Prostate Cancer

Submitted by: Sandra M. Gaston, PhD, Research Assistant Professor and Director, Molecular Biomarkers Analytic Laboratory, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Second Place

Abstract #2 – UCLA/Avenda Health, Inc

Title: Artificial Intelligence-Based Cancer Mapping to Aid in Prostate Cancer Therapy

Submitted by: Sakina Mohammed Mota, Ph.D, Data Scientist, Avenda Health, Inc.

Third Place

Abstract #16 – Blue Earth Diagnostics

Title: Post-hoc Analysis of the LIGHTHOUSE and SPOTLIGHT Studies to Assess the Impact of Urinary Activity on Interpretation of 18F-flotufolastat PET/CT

Submitted by: Dr. Rick Hermsen, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Judges

ABSTRACT REVIEW COMMITTEE


Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA

Director of Cancer Data Science, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Director of Cancer Informatics at the Institute for Precision Health; and Professor of Urology and Human Genetics, UCLA

Sigrid Carlsson, MD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Attending Epidemiologist, Departments of Surgery (Urology Service) and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Experimental Urology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden

 

E. David Crawford, MD

Professor of Urology, University of California San Diego; Chairman, Prostate Conditions Education Council; Editor in Chief, Grand Rounds in Urology; and Prostate Cancer Series Editor, Oncology Journal

 

Andrei H. Iagaru, MD, FACNM

Bio

Andrei Iagaru, MD, FACNM

Professor of Radiology – Nuclear Medicine Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Co-Director, PET-MRI Research Program Stanford University

 

Sanoj Punnen, MD, MAS

Co-Chair of Genitourinary Site Disease Group, Pap Corps Champions for Cancer Research Endowed Chair in Solid Tumor Research and
Associate Professor, Department of Urology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

 

Preston Sprenkle, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine; and Member, NCCN Prostate Cancer Early Detection Panel

 

Daniel Y. Song, MD

Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, and Co-Director, Prostate Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Clinic, Johns Hopkins University

 

Clare M. C. Tempany-Afdhal, MB BAO BCh, FACR, FISMRM, Ferenc Jolesz MD

Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School; Vice-Chair, Radiology Research Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Director of the Ferenc Jolesz National Center for Image-Guided Therapy & AMIGO; and Chair, Joint American College of Radiology, AdMeTech Foundation and European Society of Urogenital Radiology Steering Committee on PI-RADS Standardization