Wolfgang Bogner receives renowned ERC Consolidator Grant

University , People of the MedUni Vienna Wolfgang Bogner, team leader at the High Field MR Center of the Medical University Vienna, is awarded the renowned ERC Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council. In his project, Wolfgang Bogner's team will develop a new magnetic resonance (MR)-based full-body imaging method that can map the metabolism of sugar throughout the entire human body. ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to outstanding researchers of any nationality and age with seven to twelve years of postdoctoral experience and a promising scientific track record. Wolfgang Bogner and his research team will receive funding of €2.5 million for a period of five years to carry out a highly ambitious biomedical research project. In his "GLUCO-SCAN" project, Wolfgang Bogner's team will develop a new magnetic resonance (MR)-based full-body imaging method that can map the metabolism of sugar throughout the entire human body. However, unlike current clinically established methods, however, this method does not require radioactivity and promises to be much less complicated and even potentially cheaper in the future. "By developing this method, we will first demonstrate that it is possible to image the significantly increased sugar metabolism of tumors in order to better characterize and ultimately treat them; and, in contrast to currently available methods, do so completely non-invasively.