Jon Polimeni, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His PhD thesis was on the measurement and modeling of visuotopic maps in macaque and human visual cortex. His postdoctoral training was under the supervision of Professor Lawrence L. Wald at the Athinoula A. Mart...
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The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Ara Mahar and the Art of Kimono
One day when they were in college, Ara Mahar volunteered to help at an international fashion show. They were president of their school’s Japanese culture club and excited to contribute to the event, which would expose people to the cultures not only of Japan, but of other countries from around th...
Dania Daye
Dania Daye, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. She is the co-director of IR Research at MGH and Director of the Precision Interventional and Medical Imaging (PIMI) Research Group. Her research centers around the appli...
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...
Anna Blazejewska
Dr. Blazejewska’s research focuses on combining high-resolution anatomical and functional imaging to study the relationships between tissue microstructure and function in the healthy and diseased brain. She is interested in developing the next generation of methodologies allowing for microstructu...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Anastasia Yendiki and the appeal of dancing flamenco
The Martinos Center is spilling over with talent, attracting many of the brightest minds from around the world. But the talent isn’t limited to building radio frequency coils and developing novel pulse sequences for acquisition of MR data. Anastasia Yendiki is a researcher who focuses on metho...
ISMRM 2024 Honors and Awards
The 2024 annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) is now in the books. We are thrilled to recognize here the many Martinos researchers who received honors and awards this month in Singapore. (Please just let us know if we've missed anyone.) Congratula...
Home Hospital Innovation Challenge Showcases Imaging Technologies of Tomorrow
On Thursday, May 18, the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging hosted the Home Hospital Innovation Challenge: a Shark Tank-like event in which researchers pitched ideas for novel biomedical imaging technologies that could be commercialized to meet a growing call for hospital-level care provi...
It’s All about Teamwork: The Center’s Shahin Nasr on his breakthrough findings in the visual system
A research team at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging has shed new light on the fine-scale organization of human visual cortex. Scientists have long sought deeper understandings of how different visual features (e.g., color, motion and depth) were encoded within the visual system, bu...
The Road to MPI
Functional MRI has proved a transformative technology, yielding previously unimaginable insights into the workings of the brain. But what if there were another approach, one with dramatically higher sensitivity, that could shed even more light on these mysteries? What might we learn then? Larry ...
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...
Martinos Collaborators and Alum Receive 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
Congratulations to Nancy Kanwisher, PhD, Winrich Freiwald, PhD, and Doris Ying Tsao, PhD, on their receipt of the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience! Established in 2008 by Norwegian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist Fred Kavli, Kavli Prizes recognize innovative research in astrophysics, nan...
20+20 Vision: 40 Years on the Cutting Edge of Science and Care
We are thrilled to announce the publication of 20+20 Vision: 40 Years on the Cutting Edge of Science and Care, a Martinos Center coffee table book. In 1980, a scrappy group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital banded together to explore the potential of a recently introduced technolo...
Kristina Rewin Ciesielski
EDUCATION: • PhD in Biological Brain Sciences, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Science Academy, Warsaw • Certified Clinical Psychologist & Graduate M., Clinical Division, British Psychological Society; Member of HCPC (Royal British Charter) UK POST-DOCTORAL: • UMIST, Universi...
Roberta Sclocco
Dr. Sclocco has a background in bioengineering and signal processing, with specific training in non-invasive neuroimaging (e.g., fMRI, EEG) and peripheral autonomic data analyses. Since the beginning of her career, she have been interested in the interactions between the central and peripheral au...
ISMRM Welcomes New President Larry Wald
The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) concluded its Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada, with the passing of the presidential gavel on Wednesday, 15 May 2019, to Larry Wald, director of the Magnetic Resonance - Physics & Instrumentation Group at the MGH Martinos ...
Daphne Holt
Dr. Holt has studied the neural basis of psychosis throughout her career, initially in post-mortem samples and subsequently (since 2002) using neuroimaging. Using functional neuroimaging in combination with physiology, behavioral tasks and clinical assessments, she has investigated the neurocogni...
Jian (Andrew) Li
Jian (Andrew) Li is an Instructor at the A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research interests lie in the application of statistical signal and image processing and machine learning theory to modeling and analysis of neuroi...
Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer
Dr. Kalpathy-Cramer is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Co-Director of the QTIM lab and the Center for Machine Learning at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center and Scientific Director at the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science. Her research areas include machi...
The Secret Lives of Martinos Folk: Kevin Dowling, Bagpiper in the Big City
Here is something of an unavoidable fact: If you play the Highland bagpipes you are going to draw a crowd, even if you aren’t actually looking for an audience. Just ask Kevin Dowling, a clinical research coordinator in the Brain Genomics Laboratory at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Ima...