Students in the Biomedical Imaging and Technology PhD Training Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences work closely with recognized leaders in biomedical imaging science and with prominent clinician–researchers.

Our faculty includes several fellows of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), winners of the society’s young investigator award (ISMRM’s highest honor for junior scientists), and a recipient of the society’s gold medal (ISMRM’s highest honor for senior scientists); multiple distinguished investigators of the Academy of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research; and an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. The program’s faculty members are highly active in professional societies and many serve on National Institutes of Health (NIH) study groups.

Our faculty lead, direct, and advance medical imaging science as principal investigators, co-investigators, and collaborators on research projects supported by the NIH.

Leon Axel, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular MRI

Steven H. Baete, PhD
Diffusion MRI and acquisition development

Kai Tobias T. Block, PhD
Non-Cartesian sequences and iterative reconstruction techniques

Ryan Brown, PhD
Radiofrequency coil design and construction

Haogang Cai, PhD
Metasurfaces and micro/nano devices for imaging and sensing

Kevin C. Chan, PhD
MRI, visual neuroscience

Hersh Chandarana, MD, MBA
Fast free-breathing abdominal MRI and functional imaging

Gregory Chang, MD, MBA
Quantitative and functional musculoskeletal imaging

Sumit Chopra, PhD
Machine learning, imaging, cancer

Christopher M. Collins, PhD
Interactions between electromagnetic fields and human tissue in MRI

Cem M. Deniz, PhD
Deep learning in radiology, high-resolution MRI

Els D. Fieremans, PhD
Diffusion MRI and mesoscopic modeling

Yulin Ge, MD
MR imaging of neurodegenerative diseases

Krzysztof J. Geras, PhD
Machine learning, breast cancer imaging

Oded Gonen, PhD
Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of the brain

Biyu J. He, PhD
Functional MRI and computational neuroscience

Ivan I. Kirov, PhD
MR imaging and spectroscopy in clinical neuroscience

Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD
Radiofrequency coil design, quantitative MRI

Mariana Lazar, PhD
Functional MRI, neuroimaging

Yvonne W. Lui, MD
Imaging of traumatic brain injury

Guillaume Madelin, PhD
Sodium MRI, metabolic imaging

Linda Moy, MD
Cancer imaging, functional breast MRI, and deep learning for breast cancer

Dmitry Novikov, PhD
Quantification of tissue microstructure via diffusion and transverse relaxation MRI combined with biophysical modeling

Jose Maria Raya Garcia Del Olmo, PhD
Quantitative methods for musculoskeletal molecular imaging

Ravinder R. Regatte, PhD
Advanced multilinear musculoskeletal MRI

Shy Shoham, PhD
Optoacoustic imaging, neuroengineering

Eric E. Sigmund, PhD
Diffusion MRI

Daniel K. Sodickson, MD, PhD
Novel technologies and techniques for high-field MRI

Youssef Zaim Wadghiri, PhD
Molecular and cellular imaging

Jiangyang Zhang, PhD
Diffusion MRI, brain imaging

Affiliated Faculty

David Heeger, PhD
Center for Neural Science
Cognitive and computational neuroscience

Alexej Jerschow, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Contrast agents for MRI and NMR

Pippa Storey, PhD
Center for Biomedical Imaging
Non-contrast MR angiography

Pablo Velasco, PhD
Center for Brain Imaging
Functional MRI

Yao Wang, PhD
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Medical image processing