image-center

Dear renalmri.org Community,

We are excited to present you two vice-chair applications and two applications for the next international renal imaging meeting (alphabetic order; link to the votes. Also take notice of the upcoming ISMRM Renal MRI Study Group Virtual meeting.

  • For the next Vice-Chair position:

    • Octavia_Bane Octavia Bane, Assistant Professor in the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) and the Department of Radiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY, USA My initial meeting with renalMRI.org, when I attended the 2nd International Renal Imaging Meeting in Berlin in 2017 as a young postdoctoral researcher, led to invaluable formative opportunities. Although initially funded through an EU grant, renalMRI.org fostered global collaboration. As Vice Chair of renalMRI.org, my first priority would be to strengthen and expand our group’s international reach. I would actively promote renalMRI.org through major imaging societies in which I am a member (ISMRM, SAR, RSNA, and SABI), as well as relevant nephrology societies through my clinical collaborators. A key goal would be to increase attendance at our biennial meeting, with particular emphasis on engaging more radiologists and nephrologists. Upcoming Renal MRI meetings provide an ideal forum to bring together clinicians and scientists to critically assess which techniques developed over the past 10-15 years are ready for clinical implementation. I believe the scholarly efforts of our community should focus on identifying the renal MRI biomarker with the strongest potential to achieve EMA/FDA qualification, analogous to total kidney volume in ADPKD. I would also advocate for expanding multi-center studies across multiple continents. To address funding challenges, I would encourage low-cost collaborative efforts such as shared- dataset image analysis challenges, as well as coordinated traveling phantom, volunteer, and patient studies that could be proposed for funding by pharmaceutical companies involved in global drug development. With my established track record in renal MRI and strong commitment to the mission of renalMRI.org, I would be honored to serve as Vice Chair and to further enhance the group’s international visibility and clinical impact. Thank you for considering my candidacy.

    • Iosif_Mendichovszky Iosif A Mendichovszky, Clinical Radiologist based at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and affiliated to the Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. I have been an active member of the renal MRI community for the past 19 years and I have contributed to several national and international initiatives, such as the UKRIN-MAPS Partnership, AFiRM study (investigating the role of functional MRI in patients with chronic kidney disease) and the PARENCHIMA COST Action (the predecessor of renalMRI.org). I remain engaged with the renalMRI.org community, most recently at the Pamplona 2025 meeting. I have both lead and contributed to the systematic review / statement and consensus-based technical recommendations papers, as well as to the recently published book on Advanced Clinical MRI of the Kidney. I believe that I can help strengthen and expand the renal MRI community’s current enterprises (international meetings, website and outreach) through fostering deeper collaboration and develop new joint initiatives to advance the understanding of kidney disease with the goal to ultimately establish multiparametric renal MRI into clinical practice. As a Vice-Chair I would support the current leadership of renalMRI.org and the wider community to achieve its strategic goals, propose new initiatives (such as gaining a better understanding of how the renal MRI community’s research outputs have been adopted in research and clinical studies), expand the community’s active membership, secure (with your support) funding for future collaborative transnational studies and strengthen collaborations with scientific and professional societies. I believe there are several opportunities in the use of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence to develop linked data repositories and advance data acquisitions and processing pipelines to gain new insights into renal disease using advanced MRI methods. Thank you in advance for considering supporting my candidacy.

Place your votes here

[https://forms.gle/Tfwz8i3XiyhvG1Ku6](https://forms.gle/Tfwz8i3XiyhvG1Ku6)

DEADLINE: February 09, 2026 at 12:59 PM GMT+1

Last but not least, check out the following recent renal imaging publications:

  • Patrik Jan Gallinnis et al., Investigation of Endogenous Renal CEST Contrast and the Influence of Respiratory Motion on a Clinical 3 Tesla MRI: An In Vivo and In Vitro Study. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.70210

Do you also want to share your recent publications through our newsletter? Please use this google form (https://forms.gle/M5SYrH2BXnQwEwTv8).

Upcomming conferences

  • ISMRM Renal MRI Study Group - January 27th, 17:00 UTC https://www.ismrm.org/virtual-meetings/ The meeting is dedicated to advanced applications of T2- and diffusion-weighted MRI to quantify microstructural compartments (tubular, vascular, and parenchymal), and of chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI to explore the distribution of metabolites in the kidney. The speakers will present their own cutting-edge work and review the latest developments on these topics. The intended audience of the virtual meeting are MRI physicists and radiologist researchers. The aim of the meeting is to inspire the study group membership and the wider ISMRM community to use established techniques in novel ways to explore the unique patho-physiology of the kidney. Probing renal microstructure and metabolism: quantifying vascular, tubular and parenchymal volumes
    • Lena Berchtold, MD, PhD (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève Geneva, Switzerland): Advanced DWI in Renal Transplant
    • Ehsan Tasbihi, PhD (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany) : In-Vivo Visualization of Renal Tubule Volume by Magnetic Resonance
    • David Alsop, PhD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA): T2 Water Exchange in the Kidneys
    • Julia Stabinska, PhD (Kennedy Krieger Institute/The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA): Kidney CEST
    • Mira Liu, PhD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA): Spectral DWI Measurement of Tubular, Vascular and Parenchyma Components in Renal Transplant

Best wishes,

renalMRI Coreteam

© Copyright, 2026

This email has been sent to you, because you are a subscriber of renalMRI.org (see also, https://renalmri.org/participants/).

If you want to unsubscribe, please send an email to renalmri@gmail.com

Updated: