Brain Photo Contest Winner

Sahar Ahmad, PhD, our new Research Instructor in the Radiological Sciences Group, along with Ye Wu, and PewThian Yap, PhD, were selected as winners of the NIH 2022 BRAIN Initiative Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest. Her image won second place in the contest.

Neuroscience has come a long way since the hand drawings of Ramón y Cajal. Innovative technology continues to capture the wonder and beauty of the brain. Each year, regardless of discipline, career stage, or funding source, the NIH invited all those engaged in the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative to enter their coolest, most artistic, and eyecatching images or short videos in The BRAIN Initiative® Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo & Video Contest.

The BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting Program Committee reviews anonymized submissions and narrows the field to submissions they feel capture the creative spirit of the BRAIN Initiative. Finalists’ submissions are then posted online and open for public voting. The top three photos and top three videos were announced as part of the annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting – WITH PRIZES!

Their image was also featured in the NIH Director’s Blog: The Amazin Brain: Tight-Knit Connections by Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Brain activity is orchestrated by propagating information between brain regions through fiber tracts, visualized via diffusion MRI tractography.

Sahar Ahmad, PhD