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🏆 Congratulations to Lipeng Ning, PhD, for being selected as a recipient of the 2026 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research Excellence Award!
Congratulations to Lipeng Ning, PhD, for being selected as a recipient of the 2026 Brigham and Women’s Hospital Research Excellence Award! This distinction is one of the highest recognitions at Brigham and Women's Hospital, honoring recipients for their extraordinary...
🏆 Congratulations to Yogesh Rathi, PhD, on achieving an outstanding 1st percentile score for his Multi-Site dMRI Harmonization NIH R01 grant
Congratulations to Dr. Yogesh Rathi on a spectacular achievement! His NIH R01 grant application has earned a 1st-percentile score, placing him in the top 1% of grants reviewed within his cohort. The funded project, “Harmonizing multi-site clinical diffusion MRI...
📣 New US Patent Issued to Lipeng Ning, Joan Camprodon, and Yogesh Rathi for Integrating E-Field Simulation and Neuronavigation for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Please join us in congratulating Lipeng Ning, Ph.D., Joan Camprodon, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., and Yogesh Rathi, Ph.D., on the official approval of their US patent, “SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED ELECTRIC FIELD SIMULATION AND NEURONAVIGATION...
🏆 Congratulations to Neslihan Yildiz-Ozhan, MD, for receiving a Poster of Distinction award in Psychiatry at the MGB 2026 Inaugural Celebration of Science, recognizing her impactful research on “Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Childhood Neurobehavioral Outcomes: Evidence From a Large Population-Based Cohort.”
Dr. Neslihan Yildiz-Ozhan, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, received the Poster of Distinction in Psychiatry at the MGB 2026 Inaugural Celebration of Science, an honor awarded to just 16 posters from over 500 submissions. Her...
📣 Congratulations to Neslihan Yildiz-Ozhan on the acceptance of her abstract, “Premature Brain Aging and Choroid Plexus Enlargement in Young Adults with Psychosis,” as an oral presentation at the American Academy of Neurology 2026 Annual Meeting
Congratulations to PNL Postdoctoral Research Fellow Neslihan Yildiz-Ozhan, MD, whose abstract, “Premature Brain Aging and Choroid Plexus Enlargement in Young Adults with Psychosis,” has been accepted for oral presentation at the American Academy of Neurology 2026...
📣 Congratulations to Lipeng Ning, Yiyang Pan, Yunqi Wang, Qiang Liu, and Hwihun Jeong on multiple acceptances in the 2026 International Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine Annual Meeting and Exhibition
Congratulations to Lipeng Ning, Yiyang Pan, Yunqi Wang, Qiang Liu, and Hwihun Jeong for their multiple acceptances in this year’s International Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting and Exhibition. Assistant Professor Lipeng Ning,...
🏆 Dr. Shiva Hassanzadeh-Behbahani, Ph.D., Receives Women’s Brain Initiative Emergency Support Fund for Neuroscience Excellence
We are excited to share that Dr. Shiva Hassanzadeh-Behbahani, Ph.D., a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, has received the Women’s Brain Initiative Emergency Support Fund. This grant,...
📖 PNL Contributions to Major New Collection in the Journal Schizophrenia
We are proud to announce that several members of the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (PNL) were involved in the newly published collection titled “Pathways to prevention: background and methodology for the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Program”...
📖 Congratulations to Qiang Liu, Dr. Yogesh Rathi, and Dr. Lipeng Ning on the Acceptance of Their Research Paper on Diffusion MRI Reproducibility and Reconstruction Algorithms in Medical Physics!
Congratulations to Qiang Liu and senior authors Dr. Yogesh Rathi and Dr. Lipeng Ning! We are thrilled to announce that their paper has been accepted for publication in Medical Physics. Paper Title:Effect of a Consistent Reconstruction Algorithm on Inter-scanner...
🏆Congratulations to Dr. Ofer Pasternak on receiving the 2025 Brigham & Women’s Hospital Faculty Research Excellence Award in Psychiatry
Congratulations to Dr. Ofer Pasternak on receiving the 2025 Brigham & Women's Hospital Faculty Research Excellence Award in Psychiatry!


