Alumni Spotlight: Rebecca Sullivan, PhD

Rebecca Sullivan, who obtained her PhD in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine with Dr. Savita Dhanvantari, has been awarded the Alavi-Mandell Award by the Journal of Nuclear Medicine for her paper entitled "Design, Synthesis, and Preclinical Evaluation of a High-Affinity 18F-Labeled Radioligand for Myocardial Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor Before and After Myocardial Infarction". The award is given to individuals who were the first author of a paper published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) and who made a major contribution to the completion of the work. The full citation of the paper is provided below:

Sullivan R, Hou J, Yu L, Wilk B, Sykes J, Biernaski H, Butler J, Kovacs M, Hicks J, Thiessen JD, Dharmakumar R, Prato FS, Wisenberg G, Luyt LG, Dhanvantari S. Design, Synthesis, and Preclinical Evaluation of a High-Affinity 18F-Labeled Radioligand for Myocardial Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor Before and After Myocardial Infarction. J Nucl Med. 2024 Oct 1;65(10):1633-1639. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.124.267578. PMID: 39266294.   

Congratulations Rebecca!