# 2025 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2024 · $29,805

## Abstract

SUMMARY
This application requests funding to support the 2025 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging, a three-
day meeting to be held from February 20-22, 2025, and the eighth iteration of this workshop to take place at the
University of Pennsylvania. The majority of requested funds will be used to cover the cost of travel and lodging
for junior researchers—undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows and junior
faculty—presenting at the workshop. A smaller portions of these funds will be allocated to help pay for publication
costs related to workshop materials as well as live webcasting so that interested individuals around the world
who are unable to attend in-person still have the opportunity to view and participate in the proceedings.
As pulmonary disease represents the third leading cause of mortality worldwide (rising to almost 4 million deaths
annually), there is an increasing need for novel imaging techniques to provide earlier/more accurate diagnoses
and improved treatment monitoring. The field of pulmonary imaging is more expansive today than ever—
spanning an unprecedented range of techniques for structural, functional and molecular lung assessments being
developed across the disciplines of physics, biology, engineering, chemistry, computer science, medicine and
more. Given its rapidly-evolving nature, the existence of a regular forum in which scientists and clinicians in the
field can meet with and communicate their ideas to one another is of the utmost importance. In the absence of
other scientific meetings with a similarly focused agenda, our previous workshops have succeeded in providing
just such a forum—creating a valuable opportunity for rigorous, collaborative exchange.
The specific aims of the proposed workshop are as follows: (1) host a one-day workshop on pulmonary fibrosis;
(2) keep the pulmonary imaging community informed regarding the most recent developments in structural,
functional and molecular lung imaging; (3) investigate the use pulmonary imaging to non-invasively assess
treatment efficacy for interstitial lung diseases (ILDs); (4) explore novel approaches for integrating deep learning
with pulmonary imaging to improve diagnosis and phenotyping and predict disease progression; (5) broadcast
the full workshop program live online, allowing interested parties free, real-time access to the proceedings.
Finally, we intend to hold a one-day boot camp the day before the conference focused on pulmonary fibrosis.
This boot camp will consist of ~5 one-hour presentations on topics related to this central theme, with significant
question and answer time, and a final discussion panel during which the goal will be to synthesize the most
important issues covered over the course of the event. Finally, the 2025 workshop will expand its focus to include
new dedicated sessions on topics such as pulmonary vascularization, small airways disease, ILDs—and
specifically idioopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—whi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11000657
- **Project number:** 1R13HL176130-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** RAHIM R RIZI
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $29,805
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-01 → 2025-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11000657

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11000657, 2025 International Workshop on Pulmonary Imaging (1R13HL176130-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11000657. Licensed CC0.

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