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Program in Image Guided Neurointerventions (PIGN)

The Program in Image Guided Neurointerventions (PIGN), a division of the Center for Advanced Imaging Research (CAIR), is located in the new HSF-III facility at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM). It is co-directed by Piotr Walczak, MD, PhD and Miroslaw Janowski, MD, PhD, who along with fellow researchers use interdisciplinary approaches to work at the crossroads of therapeutic concepts and technical developments.

The mission of PIGN is to promote utilization of advanced imaging for a variety of neurointerventions in order to fully implement a paradigm of precision medicine that we believe is essential for improving outcomes of CNS disorders.

Progress in implementing effective therapies for CNS disease is frustratingly slow, and lags far behind treatments for other disorders. Resolving this disparity is PIGN's ultimate mission.

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Upcoming Event

1st Annual Maryland Stem Cell Symposium and Workshop

May 17, 2024
Health Science Research Facility III
670 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

This symposium will showcase Maryland's stem cell-based basic and translational research, focusing on the contributions of trainees and junior faculty. Another aim of this symposium is to provide a networking opportunity to bring together and foster collaboration between researchers from different Maryland institutions, which are geographically separated.

Keynote Speaker

Curt I. Civin, MD

'Winding Pathways Driving Normal Hematopoietic Stem-progenitors and Leukemias' 

Presented by:

Curt Civin, MD
Philip A. Zaffere Distinguished Professor of Regenerative Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine