# 2021 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $29,805

## Abstract

SUMMARY
This application requests funding to support the 2021 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging, a three-
day meeting to be held from February 25-27, 2021, which will be the seventh of its kind hosted by the
University of Pennsylvania. The requested funds will primarily be used to cover travel and lodging for junior
researchers who will be presenting at the workshop: undergraduate, graduate and junior faculty. Some funds
may also be allocated to help pay for live webcasting and publication costs related to workshop materials. As
with previous meetings, we intend to stream each session of the meeting in real-time, allowing those who are
interested in the proceedings but unable to attend in person to access them online for free.
As mortalities associated with pulmonary disease continue to rise worldwide, innovative imaging techniques
capable of both diagnosing and helping to treat these pathologies are becoming an increasingly important. As
a field, pulmonary imaging currently encompasses a wider range of techniques for the structural, functional and
molecular assessment of lung disorders than at any time in its history. What is more, these techniques are
being developed and optimized by researchers across an increasingly diverse set of fields such as biology,
chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science and medicine. Given the field's rapidly-evolving nature, the
existence of a regular forum in which scientists and clinicians can communicate their ideas with each other is
of the utmost importance. Given the absence of other scientific meetings with a similarly focused agenda, our
previous workshops have succeeded in providing just such a forum—allowing a diverse group of pulmonary
imaging researchers to come together for the kind of rigorous, collaborative exchange that can continue to
advance the field.
The specific aims of the proposed workshop are as follows: (1) host a one-day workshop on pulmonary
inflammation; (2) inform the pulmonary imaging community of the latest advances in structural, functional and
molecular lung imaging; (3) explore the use of pulmonary imaging to evaluate therapeutic response, the
inherent obstacles to doing so, and strategies to overcome them; (4) investigate new approaches for
integrating deep learning and pulmonary imaging techniques to more accurately diagnose and phenotype
disease and predict injury progression; (5) broadcast the entire workshop live online, thereby enabling
interested parties not in attendance to access the proceedings in real-time, free of charge.
Based on the uniformly positive feedback in response to our one-day boot camp on pulmonary physiology prior
to the 2019 workshop, we intend to hold another boot camp before the 2021 meeting, this time focused on
pulmonary inflammation. This boot camp will consist of ~5 longer presentations (approximately 1 hour each) on
topics related to this central theme, with significant time devoted to question and answer after each, and a final
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10070932
- **Project number:** 1R13HL154586-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** RAHIM R RIZI
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $29,805
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10070932

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10070932, 2021 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging (1R13HL154586-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10070932. Licensed CC0.

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