Associate Investigator Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Research Institute

Assistant Professor of Radiology Harvard Medical School

Research Staff Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital

PhD State University of New York at Stony Brook 1990

alzheimer's disease; fibrin; molecular modelling; mr pet; neuroimaging; parkinson's disease; schizophrenia

The focus of my research is the design and synthesis of molecular imaging probes for MRI and PET. Current projects include:

1. Development of new molecular probes for imaging fibrin;
2. Development of new F-18 labeled PET tracers with improved pharmacological properties for imaging mGluR4, which will be characterized in preclinical models of Parkinson's disease;
3. Development of F-18 labeled PET ligands for imaging mGluR2, which will be studied in preclinical models of Alzheimers disease and schizophrenia.