At ASNC2025, the following early-career investigators will compete for cash prizes in the Barry L. Zaret Young Investigator Awards Competition. The competition honors Dr. Zaret, co-founder of ASNC and founding editor of ASNC’s Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, who passed away in 2022. Dr. Zaret was a visionary scientist whose work established the field of nuclear cardiology and kept pushing it forward.
This year’s competition will feature 6 finalists, each of whom will present their research and then field questions from a panel of esteemed judges as well as session attendees.
Finalists in the Best Clinical Science Category

Finalists in the Best Emerging Science Category

Attend the Competition, Sept. 6, in Orlando, Florida
The competition will be held Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM (Eastern Time).
Two first-prize winners, one from each category, will be announced during the Sunday, Sept. 7, plenary session, Multimodality Imaging in Endocarditis – Cases with the Experts.
The finalists’ abstracts are included here in the ASNC2025 Program.
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