Investigator, Asst Prof (M) Radiology, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School

PhD The University of Hong Kong 2012

abdominal imaging; acute stroke; chemical exchange saturation transfer; chronic liver disease; collagen targeted mri contrasting agents; early lung injury; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; magentic resonance imaging; molecular imaging; perfusion imaging; positron emission tomography; quantitative imaging

Dr. Iris Yuwen Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She has a background in both electronic engineering and biomedical engineering, with specific training in research areas for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Her work focuses on developing novel MRI methodologies that quantify molecular, metabolic, functional, and structural alterations for stroke, fibrosis, and tumor imaging. Her research spans tissue characterization using molecularly targeted probes, chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST), diffusion, functional MRI in animal models and clinical translation. More recently, her research topics also include the integration of multi-parametric MRI data with information from other imaging modalities, such as positron emission tomography (PET), through leveraging advances in multi-modal imaging, chemistry, data modeling, and image analysis. Her research is currently funded by an NIH-NHLBI K25 Grant. Her overall goal is to develop novel imaging approaches that quantify structural, physiological, and functional abnormalities in lung and liver diseases for improved diagnosis, and to deploy these techniques in clinical trials to accelerate the development of new therapeutics.