Dr. Placzek's research focuses on studying human brain diseases with translational molecular imaging - positron emission tomography (PET). Through a multi-faceted approach, his group is working towards a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in brain diseases. Their work is ap...
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Vitaly Napadow
Vitaly Napadow is a Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Scott Schoen and Nancy Adams Discovery Center for Recovery from Chronic Pain at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Director of the Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging (CiPNI)) at the Martinos Center for Bi...
Caroline Magnain Joins $17 Million Initiative to Bring More Optical Imaging Expertise to Biomedical Research
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has announced the Martinos Center's Caroline Magnain as one of 17 CZI investigators— engineers, physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and biologists with expertise in technology development — participating in a $17 million Imaging Scientists program...
Redeployment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
On Monday, April 6, as MGH prepared for the expected surge in COVID-19 patients, the hospital's leadership announced the likely redeployment of significant numbers of non-clinical workers. MGH had now entered the "all hands on deck" phase of the pandemic, where the need for additional support sta...
Ross Mair
As the Head of MR Physics at the Harvard University Center for Brain Science, Neuroimaging facility, Dr. Mair's role involves investigation and implementation of novel MRI methods for neuroimaging using the 3.0T MRI scanner, along with facility management duties. His research time has been split ...
Science on Tap
Science on Tap is a weekly Friday afternoon social where members of the Martinos community gather to eat, maybe have a libation or two, and get to know each other's work a little better. Every meeting features a 10 to 15 minute talk by a Martinos investigator about his or her latest research, inc...
National Working Group Releases Landmark Ethical Guidance for New Portable MRI Brain Research
MRI has transformed neuroscience research over the past 50 years, but research participants have had to travel to the scanner. With the advent of highly portable magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI), including pioneering work at the Martinos Center, the scanner will now come to them. This portable t...
Understanding the Patient-Clinician Relationship with ‘Hyperscanning’ fMRI
The quality of the patient-clinician relationship is widely held to impact a patient’s response to treatment. Exactly how, though, has long remained a mystery. In a study reported in October 2020, Martinos Center researchers began to explore the questions of which parts of the brain and which typ...
All in a Day’s Work: Veronica Clavijo Jordan on tackling cancer and crowdfunding molecular imaging research
As a child in La Paz, Bolivia, Veronica Clavijo Jordan was intrigued by science and medicine. “I used to love astronomy and biology,” she says. “I particularly remember loving the biology classes where we had lab and learned about anatomy.” Today, as an instructor in the MGH Martinos Center in Ch...
Anastasia Yendiki
Dr. Anastasia Yendiki's background is in statistical signal and image processing. She received a PhD in Electrical Engineering: Systems from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she worked on inverse problems in tomographic reconstruction for nuclear imaging under the supervision of Jef...
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...
Martinos on the Front Lines: Mary O’Hara and Larry White
Last week, Mary O'Hara and Larry White, senior MR technicians at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, redeployed to the main campus of MGH, where they are performing portable X-ray scans of COVID-19 patients in ICUs. Mary reported back with a harrowing and heartbreaking account of what...
Martinos Responds: Nurse practitioner Amy Kendall redeploys to help with COVID-19 study
The Martinos Center's Amy Kendall wanted to contribute to the COVID-19 response. When imaging studies at the Center were put on hold for social distancing reasons, she asked if she could be redeployed to the Ragon Institute at MGH, MIT and Harvard to help with a biospecimen repository study with ...
Movin’ on Up: Celebrating faculty and staff promotions
As we come to the close of the year, we would like to take a moment to look back and congratulate those faculty who were promoted in 2019! Recognizing her role as a pioneer and a leader in her field, we send a huge congratulations to the latest of our faculty members to be named Full Professor...
Facilitating Integration of AI Into Radiology Practice
The Quantitative Translational Imaging in Medicine (QTIM) Lab at the MGH Martinos Center has contributed to the advancement of artificial intelligence in radiology practice in myriad ways. Not least: the group collaborated with the American College of Radiology Data Science Institute (ACR-DSI) in...
The MEG Celebration Photo Gallery
On Friday, Nov. 30, the Martinos Center celebrated two landmark events for its MEG program: MEG Core director Matti Hämäläinen's promotion to full professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and the renaming of the Center's MEG facility in honor of David Cohen, the Martinos faculty member an...
Tweets From the Front Lines
In the past few weeks, we've seen a shift in the Martinos Center's Twitter feed. Usually teeming with tweets about the latest research, upcoming conferences and occasionally the antics of someone's adorable dog, the feed is now, unsurprisingly, dominated by updates about COVID-19 and the medical ...
Study Confirms Role of Structural Connectivity in Spread of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
In Alzheimer’s, the proteins amyloid-beta and tau begin to accumulate in the brain many years before any clinical signs of the disease are evident. Propagation of these proteins throughout the brain has been linked to cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s, but exactly how they spread has long been a m...
Nicole Zurcher Wimmer
Nicole Zürcher, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a faculty member at the A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Director of Human Imaging in the Chemical Neuroscience Program. She is Faculty Associate at the...
Hsiao-Ying (Monica) Wey
Dr. Hsiao-Ying (Monica) Wey is currently an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her PhD in Medical Physics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2011 and completed her postdoctoral training at t...