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2024 HMTRC Technology Workshop Information
Join us at the 2024 HMTRC workshop for great pre-clinical and translational research presentations, in depth hands-on training, technology discussions, new collaborations, and interactions between academia and industry.

In this newsletter are registration and meeting details. Hotel and the full speaker agenda will be released early 2024 through our website and this newsletter. Until then, register, mark your calendars, and begin reserving your travel.

We hope that you will join us in 2024,
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2024 HMTRC Workshop Information
Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology
Development Workshop
April 4-5th 2024, Pre-meeting Events April 3rd
Meeting Description: The April 2024 Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop includes lectures, hands-on training and discussions on dissolution DNP methodology, polarizer instrumentation, MR Sequence and Acquisitions, Pre-clinical HP Chemistry Preps, Human HP Investigational Dose Formulation & Production, Clinical Translation Methods, Clinical Trial Research, and Analysis & Display Software.
Location & Timing: The HMTRC Workshop will be held on Thursday, April 4 from 7:30am to 8pm and Friday, April 5, 2024 from 7:45am to 6pm on the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in the Genentech Hall Auditorium, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158. Please see the pre-meeting event details and information (below) for the timing and descriptions of meetings happening on Wednesday April 3rd, 2024.

External Registration (non-UC Personnel): HMTRC Workshop Registration Fee: Academic Participant $275, Industry Participant $775. Register Early, Hands-on placements will begin February 15th. No registration at the door.Online registration for external members is available through Eventbrite. VISA, Mastercard, Discovercard and American Express are accepted. The HMTRC Workshop Registration Fee includes hands-on training/demo costs, and related MR scanner, DNP supplies, pharmacy and chemistry costs.
Internal Registration (UC personnel): UC personnel please register through Qualtrics. University of California personnel please email hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu if you have any questions.
Pre-meeting Sign-ups: The pre-meeting events will take place on Wednesday April 3rd which will occur the day before the 2024 HMTRC workshop (on Thursday April 4th and Friday April 5th). Please register (links above) for the workshop to attend the pre-meeting events. There is no additional fee to attend the Pre-Meeting events. Please see the pre-meeting schedule (below) for a list of events happening, participation, and what to bring.
April 3rd Pre-meeting Details & Schedule
Pre-meeting Location: All pre-meeting events will be held at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus. Actual room locations will be released in early 2024. For travel planning purposes, please use address of the Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center (HMTRC), 1700 4th Street, Byers Hall Suite 102, San Francisco, CA 94158-2330.

Pre-meeting Sign-ups: There is no additional fee to attend the pre-meeting events. Please register for the workshop using the above information then sign-up for your pre-meeting event(s) through this link. Pre-meeting registration deadline March 4th, 2024.
Consensus Meeting: 9am-7pm
(Food will be provided for survey participants, there will be a break from 3-5pm for other pre-meeting events)

Who: Consensus Members. Those who are invited to participate in the 2024 Spring Consensus Survey. Invitations for the Consensus survey will be sent out by December 2023. Non-survey participants are also welcome to attend as space allows.

Consensus Meeting Details: At this meeting we will be reviewing the results from the Consensus Survey (planned to be released early 2024). We will first present the areas in which the survey results indicate a “consensus agreement”. Then we will review uncertain/disagreement topic areas. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss and pitch their opinions on these areas. Invited survey members will then do a second round of consensus voting to see if we can reach a consensus on any of the topics discussed.

What to Bring: You will need to bring an electronic device capable of connecting to Google Documents and an online survey.
Pre-clinical Meeting: 3-5pm
Who: Researchers and Leads who work with pre-clinical research studies.

Pre-clinical Meeting Details: Researchers and leads will meet to discuss several topics of pre-clinical interest. Tentative plans include presentations, hands-on demonstrations, and discussions involving preclinical equipment and tools such as: the SpinAligner and Bruker systems.

Trainee Only Meeting: 3:30-5pm
Who: Trainees, Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Scholars

Trainee Meeting Details: Meet and greet with fellow Trainees who conduct HP C-13 MRI Research. During the event, we will do introductions and an optional 5-minute research power pitch. Following this we will review useful resources which are offered through the HMTRC and then end with group discussions involving HP C-13 research.

What to submit: If you participate in this pre-meeting event, we will collect slides due 1 month prior to the workshop if you are presenting a 5-minute research power pitch. More details to be released early 2024.
Join Us Wednesday April 3rd!
Sign-up for Pre-meeting Events
Present at the HMTRC Workshop
Talks: We invite abstract submissions focused on HP technology development (1 page or less) for oral presentations by academic or industry participants at the 2024 Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop. We will try to accommodate your talk, but if not, these submissions can be presented during our poster sessions. Please submit your abstract title and brief description between Dec 20th – Jan 20th, 2024 by emailing hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu.

Posters: We welcome poster presentations by any participants. To register your poster for the 2024 HMTRC workshop, please provide the title and author information through this link by March 4th 2024 if you would like it to be included in the printed materials. You must be able to print your poster prior to the event and bring it on site. Poster size recommendation is 36” x 48”, landscape orientation is recommended. For any questions email hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu.
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The Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center (HMTRC) is supported by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
(NIH P41EB013598) and focuses on the development and dissemination of new advances in dissolution DNP techniques and instrumentation, specialized data acquisition methodology, and analysis software for biomedical research. 
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