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Lawrence Wald
Lawrence L. Wald, PhD, is currently a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division Health Sciences Technology. He received a BA in Physics at Rice University, and a PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 under th...
Mathias Davids
Mathias Davids, PhD, is currently an Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He received a BSc in Biomedical Engineering at University of Luebeck in 2011, and an MSc and Ph.D. in Biomedical Physics at Heidelberg University in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Dr. Davids has a strong backgro...
Fuyixue Wang
Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). She obtained her PhD degree from MIT in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology department, receiving interdisciplinary training in electrical engineering, medical phys...
Meet Nilson Fernandes, the New Operations Director for the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
This week, the Center welcomes a new member to the Martinos community: Nilson Fernandes, MHM, who will oversee operations of the Center's always expanding imaging core. He is the first person to occupy the newly created position of Operations Director. In this brief Q&A, Nilson tells us ab...
The Secret Lives Of Martinos Folk: Radio, Nerds, and Where Punk and Science Meet
When you hear the words "MIT radio station" you might imagine a group of nervous, bow tie-clad engineers crowded around a chalkboard with a Venn diagram of Roger Dean album covers and Silmarillion references. And you might be forgiven if you did. Such stereotypes of science and engineering studen...
A New Role for Diffusion MRI in Treating Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety disorders and depression are widespread among adolescents in the U.S., affecting as many as one in four 13 to 18 year olds. Determining the best course of treatment can be difficult, though, as we still don’t fully understand the biology underlying them. Now, using cutting-edge brain i...
Education & Diversity
Education lies at the heart of everything we do: from training the next generation of scientists - students and postdoctoral fellows, among others - to hosting immersive, weeklong courses covering a range of advanced imaging techniques. Educational Courses The Martinos Center has for many years...
The Year in Review: 2019
The MGH Martinos Center closed out the decade with yet another stellar year. In 2019, Center investigators reported advances in a range of areas – from technology development to basic science research and a host of clinical applications – and generally showed surprising / not-in-the-least-bit-su...
Caroline Magnain Joins $17 Million Initiative to Bring More Optical Imaging Expertise to Biomedical Research
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced the Martinos Center's Caroline Magnain as one of 17 CZI investigators— engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists with expertise in technology development — participating in a $17 million Imaging Scientists program...
Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Imaging Is Coming to the Martinos Center
The MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has received NIH funding to purchase a carbon-13 polarizer for translational and clinical metabolic imaging research. The instrument will be part of a new initiative in Hyperpolarized Imaging Program directed by Yi-Fen Yen, assistant professor of rad...
New Software Improves Ability to Determine the Cause of Stroke
Determining the cause of an ischemic stroke is critical to preventing a second one and is a primary focus in the evaluation of stroke patients. But for all the importance of identifying the cause, physicians have long lacked a robust and objective means to do so. Now a team of investigators at...
Hsiao-Ying Wey Receives 2016 New Investigator Award in Alzheimer’s Disease
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) has awarded Hsiao-Ying (Monica) Wey, PhD, an investigator in the MGH Martinos Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School,with a 2017 New Investigator Award in Alzheimer’s Disease. The program is funded by The Rosalinde and Arthur ...
Martinos Center Benefactors Honored by the Greek Orthodox Church
Many biomedical research centers have been named in honor of the donors who, through their generous support, are helping to advance work done in the particular areas of investigation. We know these donors’ names, and associate them with the research the centers produce. Less familiar to us, thoug...
The MGH Martinos Center: The Student Experience
We've posted a new video about the student experience in the MGH Martinos Center. See and hear what it's like to work as a student in one of the premier biomedical imaging centers in the world.
Randy Gollub Named Chair-Elect of OHBM, Floats Idea of Ska Band’s Return
The Martinos Center’s Randy Gollub has been elected to be the next Chair of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), an international society launched by Center researchers a quarter century ago. She is delighted to be able to step into the role: not least because of the many “resonanc...
Martinos Researchers, NTP Students Producing PPE for Front Line Workers
The global COVID-19 pandemic has inspired countless instances of people banding together to help those on the front lines of the fight against the virus. Among the many examples is the MasksOn project, an already robust and rapidly expanding effort to address the shortage of personal protective e...
REACH for BRAIN: Improving Recruitment, Engagement, and Access for Community Health Equity for Human Neuroimaging Research
In September 2023, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging saw installation of “Connectome 2.0,” a state-of-the-art MRI scanner for imaging of structural connections within the human brain—in fact, the most advanced such scanner in the world. Led by Susie Huang, MD, PhD, a neuroradiolo...
Early Screening of ASD With a New Eye-tracking Paradigm
Studies have shown that early diagnosis and intervention significantly impact the prognosis of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD): the earlier the detection and diagnosis, the better the prognosis and functional status later in life. Currently, the average age of diagnosis is approxi...
With New PET Probe, Researchers Image Fibrosis of the Lungs
The MGH Martinos Center's Pauline Désogère and colleagues have described a new positron emission tomography (PET) probe that can help to advance noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis. Reported in a Science Translational Medicine paper published online today, the probe enables detection and ...