The Bay Area Community Of Bay area RAdionuclide imagers (COBRA) meeting returned this year and was hosted at UC Davis on May 25, 2022. COBRA, originally conceived in 2006 by the late Bruce Hasegawa, PhD – brilliant investigator, educator and mentor at UCSF – and Ling Shao, formerly with Phillips and current director of algorithms development at RefleXion Medical, has provided a collaborative networking and educational venue for Bay Area researchers in nuclear imaging for several years.
“COBRA provides an informal venue where researchers can present their work outside their laboratories and common circles,” says Javier Caravaca Rodriguez, PhD, member of the 2022 COBRA organizing committee and assistant researcher in the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. “Our speakers range from PhD candidates to associate professors in five different…