Prof. Kamil Ugurbil of University of Minnesota received 15th Vehbi Koc prize. He visited UMRAM one day before the ceremony. Dr. Ugurbil is a very well known scientist in the field of MRI. He has many significant contributions to MRI including the invention of functional MRI. He is author and co-author on more than 400 high-impact journal papers. As one indicator of his contributions, his h-index is 93 as of today.
