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• Two studies from the lab of Hui Lin were awarded by AAPM (4/25/25): 
  • Best in Physics Multi-Disciplinary: Building a Cross-Modality Model to Integrate Bio-Clinical Features, Anatomical MRI, and White-Matter Pathlength Mapping for Personalized Glioblastoma RT Planning. (Bo Liu).
  • John R. Cameron Early Career Investigator Symposium Finalist: A Clinically Aligned Embedding Model for Glioma Prognostication Via Radiology-Pathology Report Matching. (Benedict Neo).
• Jose Ramos-Mendez was awarded a Polish Academy of Science grant (PI:Antoni Rucinski) as a subcontractor to develop an experimentally driven Monte Carlo Model to explore the dose rate effects in the radiation chemistry of plasmids of DNA. The grant will provide funding support for a postdoc. (2/28/2025)
• Alon Witztum, Emily Hirata, and Dante Capaldi received UCSF Chancellor’s Fund for Community Building. (11/22/2024) 
• Former physics resident Oi Wai April Chau, mentored by Wensha Yang, received an ASTRO travel award to present the team’s work on “Assessing the Tumor Visibility and Respiratory Motion of Liver Cancer Patients on Multi-Task MR and 4D-CT Imaging for Radiation Treatment Planning,” at the ASTRO annual meeting in Washington DC (9/30/2024).
• Hui Lin was awarded the UCSF Brain Tumor SPORE Career Enhancement Program Award (9/25/2024)
• Qihui Lyu was selected by AAPM for Academy’s Council of Early Career Investigators in Imaging (CECI2) Class of 2024-25 (08/12/2024)
• Katelyn Hasse graduated from the UCSFTeaching Scholars Program. A ceremony will be held on 9/10/2024 (06/06/2024)
• Qihui Lyu received the 2024 MZHF RAP award for her proposed brachytherapy CT (05/22/2024).
• Manju Sharma was selected as a mentor for AAPM’s International Council Associate Mentorship Program (5/21/24)
• Work by Hui Lin, Olivier Morin, et al – “Boosting Decoder Performance via Dynamic Prompting from Patient Similarity Embeddings for Outcome Prediction” – has been selected as Best in Physics (Therapy) for AAPM 2024
• Adam Cunha is elected AAPM Fellow (4/22/2024)
• Mike Lometti is the recipient of 2024 UCSF Radiation Oncology Jean Pouliot Physics Educational Award (4/24/2024)
• The Cardiac SBRT Team has been selected as a winner of the PIPE-sponsored Interprofessional Collaboration Award for 2024! The Team is led by Dr. Lisa Singer with physics support from Hui Lin and Emily Hirata. (4/11/2024)
• Qihui Lyu and Hui Lin started as the core members of Joint UC Berkeley and UCSF BioEngineering graduate program (4/8/2024).
• Hui Lin was awarded the Cancer Center Seed Award for her proposal entitled “Building a Multimodal Vision-Language Model for Precise Spatial-Temporal Prediction of Glioblastoma” (4/8/2024)
• Olivier Morin has started as a voting member on the AAPM Data Science Committee (3/19/2024)
• Dante Capaldi’ Radiology CTI paper on free-breathing proton MRI ventilation was editorialized. A podcast is ensued. (3/5/2024)
• Dante Capaldi started as a voting member on the AAPM Joint Working Group for Research Seed Funding Initiative (3/5/2025)
• Work by Dante Capaldi, Tomi Nano, Emily Hirata, et al has made it onto the cover of the March-April 2024 issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (3/6/2024)
• Olivier Morin has started as a voting member on the AAPM Science Council (1/30/2024)
• Hui Lin presented “Investigating the Aggregation Methods of Contextualized Transformer Embeddings of Long Electronic Health Record Notes for Glioma Overall Survival Prediction” at the 2023 AAPM Science Council Session (7/25/2023).
• Jessica Scholey was selected to become an Associate in the AAPM Science Council Associates Mentorship Program (5/26/2023)
• Dante Capaldi and Tomi Nano received UCSF Spring 2023 RAP funding for project entitled “Smartphone-Based Surface Guidance in Radiation Therapy as an Emerging Paradigm in Personalized Cancer Care” as co-PIs (5/26/2023)
• The joint UCSF-UC Berkely Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Program has been granted initial accreditation from CAMPEP until 6/30/26. The CAMPEP program director is Adam Cunha. (5/2/2023)
• Katelyn Hasse is accepted to the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program for 2023-2024 (04/28/2023)
• Qihui Lyu and José Ramos-Mendez have accepted our offer to join UCSF Radiation Oncology Physics as Assistant Professor In-residence starting July 2023.
• Olivier Morin was promoted to Full Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology (03/2023).
• Bruce Faddegon is named an author of a top-cited 2021-2022 Medical Physics paper entitled “Report on G4-Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group”
• Gilmer Valdes co-authored a high impact paper that was selected as one of the Innovative & Transformative Studies of 2022 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation https://www.evidenceforaction.org/blog-posts/innovative-transformative-studies-2022
• Emily Hirata and Wensha Yang elected 2023 AAPM Fellows
• Hui Lin received Uncle Kory Foundation seed grant, Developing Multimodal Deep Learning for Outcome Prediction in Glioblastoma Patients After Radiation Therapy
• Tomi Nano and Dante Capaldi received Winship Invest Pilot Grant as co-investigators (01/2023).
• Manju Sharma received a pilot award from the Mount Zion Health Fund’s (MZHF) to develop “Cone Beam CT Image Analysis to Predict Head and Neck Radiotherapy Toxicities for Adaptive Radiotherapy”
• Hui Lin and Olivier Morin received DOD award DOD W81XWH-22-1-0695 Integrating Metabolic and Physiologic MRI for Personalized Glioblastoma Radiotherapy Planning as co-I (PI: Janine Lupo)
• Chris Diederich is the recipient of the ESHO-Pyrexar Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of hyperthermia, given by the European Society of Hyperthermic Oncology, 34th Annual Meeting, September 14-17 2022 Gothenburg, Sweden
• Manju Sharma was guest of Honor on the last invited visit to India – as a part of global efforts.

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