Dr. Cai Garners Prestigious Vilas Associate Award

Posted on April 2014

Weibo Cai, Ph.D., Director of the Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medical Physics, received the Vilas Associate Award from the UW – Madison Graduate School. The award will be for 2 years, starting July 1, 2014.

The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. Recipients are chosen competitively by the divisional Graduate School research committees on the basis of a detailed proposal. The Vilas Associate Competition is open to tenure-track and tenured faculty, from the assistant professor level to professors within 20 years of their tenure date. Only 26 faculty members from all departments within the university were chosen for this prestigious award.

The Department of Radiology congratulates Dr. Cai on his achievement, and looks forward to his continuing high quality research.