Gold Medal Award Winner
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Leon Axel, M.D., Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
For outstanding and pioneering work in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, including SPAMM tagging.
Gold Medal Award Winner
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Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, South Korea
For contributions to the understanding of the basic physiological underpinnings of the fMRI signals.
Gold Medal Award Winner
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Yi Wang, Ph.D.
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA
For pioneering contributions to the initial development of quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and its many important applications, especially in the field of neurodegeneration.