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Congrats to PhD students Yamin Li and Shiyu Wang for presenting their EEG-fMRI work at the DSI AI Showcase and earning the 1st-place runner-up award! 🏆👏 Check out more in our April newsletter: 👉 buff.ly/BHIGe27

Reposting from Elyssa McMaster: Get Involved! The Beyond FA Grand Challenge is live! Help develop better biomarkers for white matter integrity in Alzheimer’s Disease — go beyond standard FA maps. 🔗 Join here buff.ly/qX0jhsM

VALIANT is proud to support BrainHack Vanderbilt 2025, where over 100 researchers from 24 departments and institutes came together to collaborate on 10 innovative projects across 9 labs. Check out more in our April newsletter: 👉 buff.ly/BHIGe27

First episode of VALIANT Pulse out now: Tracing Brain Health Across Borders — harmonizing MRI data to study neurodegeneration on a large scale. 🎧 buff.ly/y6fjf41

Bite-Sized Success The VALIANT Attempt student group shared bite-sized science with creativity and clarity, making big ideas accessible for everyone. 🧠✨ Check out more in our April newsletter: 👉 buff.ly/BHIGe27

On the latest Valiant Pulse, we dive into stDyer, a scalable deep learning framework for spatially resolved transcriptomics. 🎧 buff.ly/y6fjf41 📄 buff.ly/MiCODVu

🧠 Ever wondered what lies beyond FA maps? Reposting from Elyssa McMaster: Join the Beyond FA Grand Challenge and help push Alzheimer’s Disease research forward by finding more robust white matter biomarkers. 🔗 Join here buff.ly/qX0jhsM

This fall, Greyson Wintergerst heads to Spain as a Fulbright Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, where he’ll tackle one of biology’s toughest puzzles: chromosomal instability in cancer. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

At OneOncology, Vandy Alum Curtis Schunk is using AI to turn buried clinical notes into life-saving cancer insights. With tools like Llama 4 and real-world data, his team alerts doctors to missed mutations, trial matches, and new therapies. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

New on Valiant Pulse: Recording Health with Starch and Ingenuity — Low-cost hydrogel electrodes from agricultural waste for wearable biosensors. 🎧 buff.ly/y6fjf41 📄 buff.ly/od8abfL

Welcome, Research Rank! We’re excited to welcome Nashville-based startup Research Rank—founded at Vanderbilt—to the VALIANT Industry Affiliates Program. Together, we’re accelerating innovation at the intersection of AI and health. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

Welcome, University of Liverpool! 🌍 We’re thrilled to announce a new international academic affiliate: the University of Liverpool has officially joined VALIANT. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

New on Valiant Pulse: Signals in the Silence: White Matter and Memory Loss — This episode explores a groundbreaking study analyzing over 9,000 cognitive sessions from 4,467 participants. Listen here: buff.ly/y6fjf41

Congratulations to Yichen (Henry) Liu (Computer Science) and Can Luo (Biomedical Engineering) on winning the Engineering Best Paper Award for their work on structural variant detection, published in Nature Communications (2024). Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

We had a fantastic time at VINSE Friends and Family Day—our VALIANT 3D TV was a hit! We're proud to partner with VINSE to share the joy of discovery—one pixel (and nanoparticle) at a time. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

Explore the latest episode of Valiant Pulse: States of Mind — AI reveals brain alertness from single fMRI scans without behavioral labels. 🎧 buff.ly/y6fjf41

PhD students Michael Kim, Elyssa McMaster, and Chloe Cho (pictured left to right, with Landman behind/left) received ISMRM Trainee (Educational) Stipend awards to attend the conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR

Congratulations to @Michael Kim for winning Best Poster: Applications at the ISMRM 2025 Diffusion Study Group in Honolulu, HI! 🏆🌺 📝 Read the full paper on bioRxiv: buff.ly/uZAFJ4J

Catch the newest Valiant Pulse: Anatomy Meets AI — ASIGN combines 2D molecular slices with 3D pathology to improve cancer diagnostics affordably. 🎧 buff.ly/y6fjf41 📖 More info: buff.ly/1vzWWg3

Alchemists’ Corner: Latest Highlights Our community has been busy! Here’s a selection of recent publications indexed in Scopus since last month. Read more here: buff.ly/E1j0JcR