The winner
The paper has been selected for the award in recognition of its innovative use of multimodal imaging to provide the first in vivo human evidence linking trigeminal nerve microstructure with neuroinflammatory processes in migraine, with clear implications for improving the clinical characterization of patients and advancing the study of neuroinflammation in human pain.
LUDOVICA BRUSAFERRI, PhD, is a neuroimaging scientist specializing in PET imaging and its application to chronic pain and neuroinflammation. Her research focuses on the development of quantitative imaging methodologies and their integration into clinical research.
She has trained at leading institutions including University College London and Harvard Medical School, where she contributed to advanced PET/MR studies of neuroinflammation in human pain conditions.
Her work lies at the intersection of methodological innovation and clinical neuroscience, with particular emphasis on reproducibility, biomarker development, and multimodal imaging approaches.
