News & Events
Visits and Conferences
Visits
Short—and long-term visiting is essential to moving research forward. We are engaged in both incoming research visits, during which we host distinguished members of the research community, and outgoing research visits, in which we are hosted by other scientists. For example, Piotr Walczak spent three weeks in Spain in late 2019 at BioMAGUNE, visiting the lab of Drs. Jesus Ruiz Cabello and Pedro Cabrer to initiate collaboration on intraarterial delivery of nanoparticles to the brain across osmotically opened BBB.
Conferences
We take an active role in organizing several annual events relevant to our areas of interest. We Co-organize:
Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN) conference is a flagship event for PIGN, as SIGN was founded by PIGN members who play leadership roles in the Society (www.neurosignsociety.org).
Upcoming Events
PIGN Seminar Series
Johannes Boltze, MD, PhD
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"The Idea of Acute Cerebroprotection and Most Recent Insights from Stroke Therapy Academic Industry Roundtable (STAIR) XIII"
Monday, March 31, 2025
3:00 P.M.
Frenkil Lecture Hall, Health Sciences Research Facility III
Faculty Host: Miroslaw Janowski, M.D., Ph.D.
More information on the seminar
6th Conference of the Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN 2026)
Spring 2026
Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe, Africa
Archive
2025
5th Conference of the Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN 2025)
January 9-11, 2025
Odelya Hotel
Basel, Switzerland
2024
1st Annual Maryland Stem Cell Symposium
May 17, 2024
Health Science Research Facility III
670 W. Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
This symposium showcased Maryland's stem cell-based basic and translational research, focusing on the contributions of trainees and junior faculty and provided a networking opportunity to bring together and foster collaboration between researchers from different Maryland institutions, which are geographically separated. The Keynote Lecture was delivered by Dr. Curt Civin.
2022
Visiting MSU
Thanks to Dr. Assaf Gilad of Michigan State University for breaking the Covid spell and inviting Dr. Walczak to give his first in-person lecture marking a begining of a return to normalcy.
Visiting Scientist Dr. Szymon Nitkiewicz from the University of Warmia and Mazury in Poland joined PIGN for three week internship
2021
Our report in Nature Protocols providing details on how to precisely and reproducibly perform blood brain barrier opening in mice using MRI guidance
Dr Janowski Awarded NIH grant RO1NS120929 Entitled "Image-guided, intra-arterial delivery of antibodies to the central nervous system" To systematically evaluate mechanisms governing brain accumulation of intraarterially delivered antibodies.
Dr Yajie Liang awarded American Cancer Society Research grant entitled "Multiplex single-cell functional analysis platform under intravital 2-photon microscopy to interrogate heterogeneity of patient-derived glioblastoma in a mouse model"
SLICE2021 Dr. Walczak was invited to give a lecture during an Inspirational Session at the Interventional Neuroradiology event SLICE Next Frontiers, the next step in Montpellier, France on May 11 2021. A recording of his speach and an excellent discussion session can be viewed at: Interventional Neuro-Oncology
2020
- 3rd meeting of the Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN) scheduled to be held in Warwick, UK postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic
- 11th International Symposium on NEUROPROTECTION and NEUROREPAIR (ISN&N) event co-organized by Johannes Boltze, a close collaborator as well as the treasurer of SIGN. Piotr Walczak is co-organizing with Raphael Guzman (University of Basel) a mini-symposium “Neuroprotection and Immunomodulation for Stroke in Post-Thrombectomy Era”. Event was scheduled to be held in Berlin on October 5-7, 2020, but was cancelled due to the pandemic.
- 13th Interventional MRI Symposium, scheduled to be held in Leipzig, Germany, October 9-10, 2020, was cancelled due to the pandemic.
2019
Dr. Piotr Walczak awarded Visiting Professorship at CICBioMAGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain visiting the lab of Drs. Jesus Ruiz Cabello and Pedro Cabrer to initiate collaboration on intraarterial delivery of nanoparticles to the brain across osmotically opened BBB. 
SIGN 2019, second meeting of the Society for Image-Guided Neurointerventions. Baltimore, June 10-11 2019.
2018
The first conference of the Society for Image Guided Neurointerventions (SIGN) held on 25-26 of June in Warsaw, Poland: SIGN2018
