Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Today is the one-year birthday of GLC. Happy birthday to GLC! It was an idea in our mind just one year ago, but now it is exposed to global visitors, as shown in the figure for visitors to GLC website in Q2, 2015. It is great! Thank you all the visitors for your support to our mission in the establishing of the idea for a general labs cloud. Your support encourages us to continue our efforts in the development of GLC. In the passed year, we started testing of the business idea with two labs openned by Dr. Qian. In the coming year, we will continue the testing and attain the  first-hand experience about how to build, run and survive our labs via GLC. This experience will guide us to build a powerful  plateform and benefit labs to be openned on the GLC plateform in the future. This coming year will be another exciting year for GLC. -Yongxian Qian, PhD, CEO of GLC.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Dr. Yongxian Qian, PI of Qian's Lab for Geophysics, was approved for active member by SEG today. This upgrade from associate member will provide more opportunities for the lab to participate in SEG activities at local, national and international levels.

Thursday, April 23, 2015
Qian's Lab for MRI has an abstract to present at the upcoming SNMMI (Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) annual meeting, June 6-10, 2015, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. This poster presentation is titled "PET ML-10 Uptake Correlates with MRI Bound Sodium Change in Early Assessment of Response to Cancer Therapy of Brain Tumors". This presentation is from a study collaborated with Dr. James Mountz's group at the PET Center, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Friday, February 20, 2015
Qian's Lab for MRI announced a new product today: A software for T2, T2*, T1 and T1rho mapping. The software, including pM1 for mono- and pM2 for bi-exponential fitting, provides clinical researchers with a critical tool for data processing on standalone computers (laptops or desktops). This software has three main advantages: (1) Work on standalone computers for individual's use, (2) Provide fit-goodness maps for confident interpretation, and (3) Be cost-effective to budget users through a flexible-term lease. For more information, click here.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Qian's Lab for Geophysics participated in the monthly meeting of the Geophysical Society of Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Chapter of SEG, hold in Tuesday evening, February 3, 2015. At this meeting, Dr. Paul McColgan  shared his extensive experience in AVO (amplitude variation with offset) applications to multiple plays via his case-study-based presentation titled "Hard Rock AVO theory and Practice". AVO technique also is a research interest at Qian's Lab for Geophysics.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Qian's Lab for MRI has three abstracts accepted to present at the upcoming ISMRM annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. They are: (1) Sodium (23Na) and UTE MRI for detection of nerve cell injuries in concussed patients: Preliminary study (T-poster: #1998, June 3, 11:00), (2) UTE-based short-T2* mapping and PLM optical imaging for evaluating disruption of colleagen fibers in knee cartilage explants (E-poster: #4396, Computer #46, June 3, 18:00), and (3) Intracellular sodium (23Na) MRI for assessment of response to cancer therapies on brain tumor patients (E-poster: #4027, Computer #47, June 3, 14:30). Wellcome to these poster presentations on June 3, 2015.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014
New Year 2015 is coming. Happy New Year to all the visitors to the GLC website! Best wisheses and good luck in 2015 for every one and GLC as well. In 2014, GLC was established in July and now, six months later, it has surprisingly become a national and international website. This achievement paves a solid foundation for GLC to grow more rapidly in 2015. We are working hard to bring more surprises to you in the new year. Please follow us in this What's New and keep you updated. -Yongxian Qian, PhD, CEO of GLC.  

Sunday, December 7, 2014
Dr. Yongxian Qian, PI of the Qian's Lab for MRI, successfully submitted a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant application (Phaes I, R43) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday, December 4, 2014. This grant application includes a few clinician-scientist collaborators from a local university. The successful submission shows that the GLC platform is ready for its researchers to submit SBIR/STTR grant applications to the NIH. 

Monday, November 17, 2014
Dr. Yongxian Qian, PI of the Qian's Lab for MRI, successfully submitted a R21 grant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is the first time for the GLC as a small business organization to submit grant application to a federal goverment agency, opening opportunites for other GLC labs to submit grant applications to federal goverment agenceis via GLC platform.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Dr. Yongxian Qian, PI of the Qian's Lab for Geophysics, completed a one-day SEG DISC2014 short course for microseismic imaging of hydraulic fracture at Pittsburgh, PA, on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. This course, instructed by Dr. Shawn Maxwell, covered current advances of the field, from field work setup to production application to future directions of development. This training course will surely enhance R&D activities at the Qian's Lab in microseimic imaging for hydraulic fracturing for oil/gas production.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Now, grant applications can be submitted to NIH or other federal goverment departments via GLC as a domestic small business concern. It has been registered to DUNS, SAM, eRA Commons and Grants.gov. All collaborations are welcome. Contact: info@glabscloud.com.

Monday, August 4, 2014
A new lab, Qian's Lab for Geophysics, was opened at GLC on Monday, August 4, 2014. This lab focuses on data processing and expert consulting in seismic imaging and well-logging for oil and gas exploration. For details, visit Qian's Lab for Geophysics.

Sunday, August 3, 2014
A Matlab-based standalone deployment for bi-exponential T2* mapping was released in the first time in its kind by Qian's Lab for MRI at GLC on Sunday, August 3, 2014. This state-of-the-art software allows researchers to perform two-component T2* (T2) mapping on a pixel-by-pixel basis, and thus enhance their ability to investigate the roles of individal T2* (T2) components in assessing progression or recovery of a degenerative tissue. For details, visit Qian's Lab for MRI: Products and Services.

Saturday, August 2, 2014
A Matlab-based standalone deployment for motion correction across images in T2 (T1) mapping was released by Qian's Lab for MRI at GLC on Saturday, August 2, 2014. This software uses ROI as a basis to perform translation, rotation and scaling, and thus it is robust to pattern change of intensity contrast across imags in a mapping process. This unique feature allows researchers to perform ROI-based local correction of motion between images. For details, visit Qian's Lab for MRI: Products and Services.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014
The PI of Qian's Lab for MRI published a paper in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine to demonstrate a new technique of sodium MRI at 3T that has possibility to quantify bound, or intracellular, sodium concentration in brain tumors in patients. This new technique may be used to monitor tumor cell response to therapies at cellular level and thus helps to customize therapies to individual tumors. For details, click here. For citation, click http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25078966.