Scene: The "Oscars" of the Global Medical Imaging World The setting is Hawaii, USA, at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)—the "Oscars" of the field. When the name of the award winner flashed on the big screen, experts from Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Stanford fell silent. ​Walking up to the podium was not a titan from a prestigious Western university, but a young Chinese face: Qiu Yueqi, a "Gen Z" (born after 2000) PhD stud