A top-ranking research engineer, - Dr. of Science, Dr. in Engineering, INSA engineer - she worked at the NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Laboratory of the University Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5012, from 1968 to 2006, and has worked at CREATIS, UMR CNRS 5220, and Inserm U1044 since 2007. She is internationally acknowledged for her methodological work in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging (MRS and MRI).
Other awards for the laboratory

Bénédicte Delattre, a post-doctoral researcher at Creatis received the Magna Cum Laude Award from ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) at the conference held in Melbourne in May 2012 for her article entitled: "Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Modeling Applied to Cardiac Diffusion Weighted MRI: toward Free Breathing Acquisition in Healthy Volunteers".

Benjamin Leporq, a doctoral researcher at Creatis received the Magna Cum Laude Award from ISMRM (International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine) at the conference held in Melbourne in May 2012 for his article entitled: "Combined automatic segmentation of fat and muscle compartments with T1 and T2* measurements using a triple-angle multiple gradient-echo acquisition technique".

Pei Dong, a doctoral researcher at Creatis received the Best Poster Award at the TOPIM 2012conference (Processing Biomedical Images) which took place at Les Houches in April 2012 for his article entitled: "Quantification of bone cell connections from 3D nano-CT images".

Salem Hannoun, a post-doctoral researcher at Creatis received the 1st Poster Prize for the section "Human MRI Applications" at the 1st SFRMBM congress in Marseille in March 2012 for his poster entitled: "Augmentation de la fraction d'anisotropie dans les noyaux caudes et le thalamus atteints de sclérose en plaques" (Increase in fractional anisotropy in the caudate nuclei and thalamus affected by multiple sclerosis).

Marcela Hernández Hoyos, a Doctor in Images and Systems from INSA Lyon, has been appointed Vice-Dean for academic affairs at the University Of Los Andes De Bogota, Colombia, from 1 July 2012.

Contacts :
Isabelle Magnin, laboratory Director – isabelle.magnin@insa-lyon.fr
Didier Vray, communication – didier.vray@insa-lyon.fr
website : http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr