29. October 2025 - The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI is turning 20!

We have a reason to celebrate! The Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI is turning 20, and to mark this special occasion, we warmly invite you to the Erwin L. Hahn Lecture 2025.

When: October 29th, 2025
Where: OKTOGON at the Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen

We are particularly excited to announce that Larry Wald, the last PhD student of the institute's namesake Erwin L. Hahn, will deliver this year's keynote speech. Larry Wald teaches at the renowned Harvard Medical School and will speak on "MR technology; from elegant physics to elegant engineering and back again."

Beyond the keynote, this year's program is packed with interesting lectures and discussions around the theme "Body & Brain" – the focus of ELH.

Of course, food is not to be missed: In addition to lunch, we will also have a dinner to celebrate ELH's 20th anniversary, where we will toast to two decades of innovation and research.

The full program is now online on our website and registration is open! Participation is free, but prior registration is required. Registration closes at the end of September: https://hahn-institute.de/de/info/hahn-lecture

As in past years, the Erwin L. Hahn Lecture & Workshop will be held as a hybrid event. We also kindly ask all online participants to register in advance.

Kind regards and hope to see you there
The ELH

GUFI submits proposal for 14 Tesla MRI system

On the road toward implementing a 14 Tesla human whole-body system in Germany, we responded to a call in 2024 from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) to submit projects to develop new national scientific infrastructures: https://www.bmbf.de/DE/Forschung/Wissenschaftssystem/Forschungsinfrastrukturen/InternationaleEinrichtungen/_documents/240617_priorisierungsverfahren_fis.html. In a proposal coordinated by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen and the German National Metrology Institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) in Berlin, GUFI formulated a comprehensive plan to establish a 14 Tesla system in Erlangen in close vicinity to the University Hospital as well as Siemens Healthineers. The planned facility would be operated as an open research infrastructure open to groups across Germany and beyond. Members of the GUFI consortium have summarized the history of this initiative, the motivation for pursuing MR imaging and spectroscopy at such a high magnetic field strength, and the technical and funding challenges involved in the following review article: Ladd et al. Germany's journey toward 14 Tesla human magnetic resonance. MAGMA 2023 36:191-210. The evaluation of the submitted projects is ongoing, and it is expected that a short list of projects particularly suitable for maintaining and expanding the leading position of the German science system in international competition will be published by the end of the summer 2025.