Nanodiamond-enhanced MRI: A Dazzling New Approach to Imaging

Nanodiamonds – synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size – have recently attracted considerable attention because of the potential they offer for the targeted delivery of vaccines and cancer drugs as well as for other uses. Thus far, options for imaging nanodiamonds have been li...

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 ...

‘Women in Science’ Series Tackles Sexism, Other Issues

The MGH Martinos Center’s first-ever “Women in Science” seminar series, held this spring, brought together investigators, staff and others from throughout the community for a host of important and thought-provoking discussions. The series proved so successful the organizers are planning to hold a...

Bin Deng

Bin Deng, PhD, is a biomedical scientist whose research interests revolve around near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, functional optical imaging, the interactions between NIR light and tissue, noninvasive optical biomarkers and the pathophysiology of diseases. Dr. Deng investigates the intersection ...

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory (IASLab) at Northeastern University. She also holds research appointments in the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program in the Department of Psychiatry and a...

Christopher Bridge

Dr Bridge is trained as an engineer, with MEng (Distinction) and DPhil degrees from the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, respectively. He has worked in the area of medical image analysis for nearly a decade. His work on his doctoral thesis involved the development of a system for...

MGB Radiology Research Celebration 2023 – BWH

In 2023, the joint departments of Radiology Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital seek to recognize and support the accomplishments of our outstanding research faculty. We are immensely appreciative of the quality and quantity of their work.  The annual Rad...

MGB Radiology Research Celebration 2023 – MGH

In 2023, the joint departments of Radiology Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital seek to recognize and support the accomplishments of our outstanding research faculty. We are immensely appreciative of the quality and quantity of their work.  The annual Rad...

Heidi Jacobs

The Jacobs Lab aims to detect the earliest brain changes that contribute to cognitive decline and behavioral changes associated with the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease. Our focus is on neuroimaging method development, biomarker evaluation and testing new preventive interventions targeting...

AMA @ Martinos: Anastasia Yendiki

The 2022 meeting of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), to be held June 19-22 in Glasgow, Scotland, will feature keynote lectures by no fewer than two Martinos Center researchers: Anastasia Yendiki and Jon Polimeni. In anticipation of the meeting, we approached Anastasia about putting...

Randy Gollub

Randy Gollub, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with a secondary appointment in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she serves as the Associate Director of Translational Research in the Neuroimaging Research Program. ...

Martinos Giving

The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging is an outstanding research center in part because of the consistent support of foundations, industry, faculty, staff, and friends. Over the years, the Center and its faculty have benefited from the gifts of those that support our vision t...

Mainak Jas

Dr. Jas completed his PhD from Telecom ParisTech. His thesis focused on automating MEG/EEG analysis pipelines. He is a proponent of open and reproducible science. He has been a key contributor to several open source neuroimaging tools: most notably MNE-Python, MNE-BIDS, and HNN-core. He develope...

Ilknur Ay

Dr. Ay is an Assistant Professor at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has a broad background in vascular pharmacology with fellowship training in neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ay’s main researc...