The main objective of the Nuclear Cardiology Foundation Pilot & Feasibility (P & F) program is to provide research support to test innovative hypotheses involving research in nuclear cardiology and its related fields such as cardiac molecular imaging, cardiac PET, cardiac CT, or PET/CT.  It is hoped that a Pilot & Feasibility award generate enough preliminary data for the investigator to obtain research funding by conventional mechanisms (e.g., R01, R21).

2007 Pilot & Feasibility Award Winners

David K. Glover, MEng, PhD
University of Virginia
"Molecular Imaging of LOX-1 to Assess Atherosclerotic Plaques"

Diwakar Jain, MD
Drexel University
"Angiogenesis Imaging with Radiolabelled Annexin-II Antibody"

Michael Gollob, MD
University of Ottawa Heart Institute
"The mechanism of the Arg302Gln-PRKAG2 Mutation Metabolic Cardiomyopathy"

This program is made possible by the corporate support of the Astellas USA Foundation.