Jack Reeves was awarded the highly competitive 2025 Marc Stecker Award for Excellence in MS, which recognizes a student whose research is deeply informed by the lived experiences of people with MS. Reeves has exemplified this principle through his sincere engagement with patients and a clear commitment to translating their challenges into meaningful scientific inquiry. His award-winning work centers on paramagnetic rim lesions (PRLs)—chronic active lesions believed to represent smoldering inflammation in MS. He has authored or co-authored seven top-tier peer-reviewed publications on PRLs, contributing significantly to the understanding of chronic inflammation in MS. His work has advanced both the quantitative imaging methodology and the biological interpretation of PRLs, and is regarded as an excellent contribution to the growing literature on biomarkers of disease progression. His dedication, intellectual rigor, and compassion make him a model of patient-centered research.

Fahad Salman was honored with a Magna Cum Laude Merit Award at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Honolulu, Hawaii. His abstract, ranked in the top 15%, presented a novel longitudinal model of iron accumulation in the thalamus and putamen using change-point mixed effects analysis. He also received a Best Poster Presentation award (3^rd place) at the Joint Workshop on 2024 MR Phase, Magnetic Susceptibility, and Electrical Properties Mapping in Santiago de Chile, Chile for his work, titled “Impact of Regularization Parameter Choice on Real-World Sensitivity of QSM” and a Best Abstract (2^nd place) award at the ISMRM in Singapore, Singapore for the work titled “Decoding Sensitivity of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping: Influence of Background Field Removal and Inversion Algorithms”. This work advances our understanding of progressive brain iron changes in MS and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Ashley Tranquille, PhD candidate, was awarded the Beverly Petterson and Charles W. Bishop Neuroscience Travel Award to support her participation in neuroscience conferences in Spring 2025. She was also selected to attend the prestigious ACTRIMS Neuroimmunology Summit in Phoenix, Arizona—a recognition of her growing contributions to MS immunopathology and neuroimaging research.

Thomas Jochman received the Best Oral Presentation award at the Joint Workshop on 2024 MR Phase, Magnetic Susceptibility, and Electrical Properties Mapping in Santiago de Chile, Chile. His work, titled “QSM in the Presence of Nondipole Phase Shifts,” tackled a fundamental methodological issue in quantitative susceptibility mapping, aiming to improve the reliability of susceptibility-based biomarkers in clinical neuroimaging.

These recognitions reflect BNAC’s mission to foster the next generation of clinician-researchers and imaging scientists who combine methodological innovation with a patient-first philosophy. Congratulations to all the awardees for advancing the frontiers of neuroimaging and MS research.