First Name
Vesna
Last Name
Sossi
Position
Professor
Office Room
Hennings 413
Lab Room
ACU G343
Tel (Office)
(604) 822-7710
Tel (Lab)
(604) 822-7710
Email
vesna@physics.ubc.ca
Research Groups

Students Wanted
actively recruiting


Master's Degree
Trieste, Italy High Energy Physics

Doctoral Degree
UBC,1991 Nuclear Physics

Employment History

Professor                            Physics and Astronomy            2009-

UBC PET director              UBC                                           2009-

Assoc. Prof.                        Physics and Astronomy            2004-2009

Affiliate Scientist                BCCA Medical Biophysics         2005-

Adjunct Research Scientist TRIUMF                                   2006-

Assist Prof.                         Physics and Astronomy            2001-2004

Adjunct Professor               Medicine                                   1997-


Awards
  • Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Senior Scholar Award
  • Peter Wall Senior Early Scholar award
  • Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career  Scholar Award
  • National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada  Faculty Award
  • BC Health and Research Foundation  & Vancouver General Hospital scholarship award

Citizenship
Canadian

Research Area
Medical Physics

Research Field
Medical Imaging - PET, Positron Emission Tomography Brain Imaging; Multimodality Imaging

Research Topics
Instrumentation, Algorithms, Neurodegeneration, Clinical and Preclinical Imaging

Selected Publications

Selected Refereed  publications (Career total 179)

  1. Stortz G, Thiessen JD, Bishop D, Khan MS, Kozlowski P, Retière F, Schellenberg G, Shams E Zhang X, Thompson CJ, Goertzen AL* , Sossi V* (* equal senior authors) Performance of a PET Insert for High Resolution Small Animal PET/MR Imaging at 7T, Jour Nucl Med 2017 in press
  2. Topping G.J, Yung A, Schaffer P, Hoehr C, Kornelsen R, Kozlowski P, Sossi V, Manganese Concentration Mapping in the Rat Brain with MRI, PET, and Autoradiography, Medical Physics, in press
  3. Wile DJ, Agarwal PA, Schulzer M,  Mak E,  Dinelle K, Hasegawa K,  Zhang J,  McKenzie J,  Heffernan  N , Strongosky A,  Uitti RJ, Guttman M,  Zabetian CP, Ding Y-S, Adam M, Aasly J, Wszolek ZK, Farrer M, Sossi, V,  and Stoessl AJ, Wile DJ, Agarwal PA, Schulzer M,  Mak E,  Dinelle K, Hasegawa K,  Zhang J,  McKenzie J,  Heffernan  N,  Strongosky A,  Uitti RJ, Guttman M,  Zabetian CP, Ding Y-S, Adam M, Aasly J, Wszolek ZK, Farrer M, Sossi, V,  and Stoessl AJ, Serotonin and dopamine transporter PET changes in the premotor phase of LRRK2 parkinsonism: cross-sectional studies Lancet Neurol. 2017 May;16(5):351-359
  4. Bailey DL, Pichler BJ, Gückel B, Barthel H, Beer AJ, Botnar R, Gillies R, Goh V, Gotthardt M, Hicks RJ, Lanzenberger R, la Fougere C12, Lentschig M, Nekolla SG, Niederdraenk T, Nikolaou K, Nuyts J, Olego D17, Riklund KÅ, Signore A, Schäfers M, Sossi V, Suminski M, Veit-Haibach P, Umutlu L, Wissmeyer M, Beyer T. Combined PET/MRI: from Status Quo to Status Go. Summary Report of the Fifth International Workshop on PET/MR Imaging; February 15-19, 2016; Tübingen, Germany. Mol Imaging Biol. 2016 18(5):637-50
  5. Klyuzhin, I, Gonzalez, M; Shahinfard, E; Vafai, N; Sossi, V, Exploring the use of shape and texture descriptors of tracer distribution in imaging studies of neurodegenerative disease, JCBFM 2016 Jun;36(6):1122-34.
  6. Walker, M, Dinelle, K, Kornelsen, R, Lee, N, Miao, Q, Adam, M, Takhar, C, Mak, E, Schulzer, M,  Farrer, M, Sossi, V, [11C]PBR28 PET imaging is sensitive to neuroinflammation in the aged rat, J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2015 Aug;35(8):1331-8