# Admin-Core:  Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center

> **NIH NIH P41** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2020 · $140,689

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
The Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center is designed to develop new HP MR instrumentation, 
techniques, and analysis software through close interactions with funded Collaborative Project investigators 
and then disseminate these techniques to the Service Project Investigators for extramural feedback and to the 
general scientific community through the website, symposia, a dedicated Center Workshop, and direct hands- 
on training. In order to accomplish all these goals and functions requires a well-constructed administrative plan 
with a defined but dynamic structure that can be modified to meet new challenges and changing collaborative, 
service, training and dissemination needs. The HMTRC administrative structure and implementation has 
developed considerably since the original submission, because the interactions and complexity of the whole 
P41 has increased dramatically over the past 4 years. The HMTRC administrative infrastructure now extends 
nationally and internationally to provide information, dissemination of MR sequences, and analysis software to 
Service Projects and other investigators utilizing DNP polarizers for HP 13C MRI research. 
The operation of the HMTRC will continue to be directed by the Executive Committee with the PI, Dr. Daniel 
Vigneron PhD as the Chair. Dr. Sarah Nelson PhD, who is the Project Leader for TR&D Project 3, Director of 
the Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging and Dr. John Kurhanewicz PhD who is the Project Leader of 
TR&D Project 2 & Director of the UCSF Biomedical NMR Lab will also serve on the HMTRC Executive 
Committee. In this current center, these three professors have collaborated closely making this center very 
successful. With a history of successful collaborations and with offices in close proximity, they will continue to 
collaborate in this renewal project to ensure the continue productivity and success of the HMTRC. Dr. Robert 
Bok MD, PhD will also serve on the Executive Committee. He has extensive experience in preclinical and 
clinical research and oversees the animal facilities in the Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging and the 
Biomedical NMR lab and has led the animal model aspects of the current preclinical hyperpolarized MR 
studies. New member to the Executive Committee is Dr. Peder Larson PhD who will be the PI of CP5 in this 
renewal project with particular focus on RF pulse design and translational 13C MR acquisition developments 
and brings the first hand experience of a junior faculty member establishing an independent HP 13C research 
program.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9932990
- **Project number:** 5P41EB013598-10
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Daniel B Vigneron
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $140,689
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9932990

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9932990, Admin-Core:  Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center (5P41EB013598-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9932990. Licensed CC0.

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