Rolf Gruetter becomes Fellow of the ISMRM

© 2014 EPFL

© 2014 EPFL

Professor Rolf Gruetter has received a Fellow of the Society award by the ISMRM during their 2014 conference.

 The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) has recognized Professor Rolf Gruetter’s substantial contribution to the field of magnetic resonance by awarding him Fellow of the Society. The award, given during the annual ISMRM meeting in Milan (10-16 May 2014), is given in recognition of “significant and substantial contributions to research in a field within the Society’s purposes or for significant contributions to the development of the Society and/or any of the Predecessor Societies”.

The ISMRM was founded in 1994 following the merging of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Society of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is an international association whose mission is to “promote communication, research, development, and applications in the field of magnetic resonance in medicine and biology and other related topics and to develop and provide channels and facilities for continuing education in the field.” It currently includes over 6,000 clinicians, physicists, engineers, biochemists, and technologists.

Professor Gruetter is the head of the Laboratory for Functional and Metabolic Imaging (LIFMET) at EPFL, and also leads various regional and national institutions in Switzerland. He is the Director of the Center for BioMedical Imaging (CIBM), a collaborative research initiative between EPFL, Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Université de Genève (UNIGE), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), and the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV). Professor Gruetter is also spokesperson for the ETH-domain National Competence for Biomedical Imaging (NCCBI) initiative, which aims to advance biomedical imaging technology in Switzerland beyond institution-specific investments and activities.