Faculty

	Weili Lin, Ph.D. Director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center Professor and Vice Chair of Basic Research, Radiology Professor, Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, and School of Pharmacy (919) 843-8120, weili_lin@med.unc.edu

	Hong Yuan, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Director, BRIC Small Animal Imaging Facility (919) 843-3813, yuanh@med.unc.edu

	Hongyu An, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Radiology (919) 843-8256, hongyan@med.unc.edu

Charlotte_Boettiger

Charlotte Boettiger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology

www.unc.edu/~cab

cab@email.unc.edu

Dr. Boettiger’s research focuses on using cognitive neuroscience tools to investigate the neurobiology of addiction.

	Rosa Tamara Branca, Ph.D. Department of Physics rtbranca@unc.edu Dr. Branca’s research team develops new approaches and methodologies for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study biological systems, with an emphasis on non-linear magnetic resonance and hyperpolarized gas imaging.

	Paul Dayton, Ph.D. Associate Professor (919) 843-9521, padayton@bme.unc.edu http://www.bme.unc.edu/~padayton/Home.html Dr. Dayton's research focuses on advanced technologies for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging, primarily for oncology diagnostics. The Dayton group is also working on ultrasound-mediated therapeutics.

	Caterina Gallippi, Ph.D. Associate Professor (919) 843-6647, cmgallip@bme.unc.edu Dr. Gallippi's laboratory develops novel diagnostic ultrasonic imaging technologies, including those that exploit acoustic radiation force to interrogate the mechanical properties of tissue.

	Wei Gao, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (919) 843-7672, wgao@email.unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~wgao/index.html Dr. Gao researches the brain's functioning mechanism underlying normal development and disorders.

Kelly Giovanello, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology

www.unc.edu/~kgio

kgio@email.unc.edu

Dr. Giovanello’s research combines behavioral, patient-based, and functional neuroimaging approaches to investigate the cognitive neuroscience of human learning and memory.

	Louise Henderson, MSPH Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Radiology Louise_Henderson@med.unc.edu Dr. Henderson's research focuses on the performance of breast imaging techniques, comparative effectiveness research, and disparities in cancer screening and treatment.

	Shawn Hingtgen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics hingtgen@email.unc.edu Dr. Hingtgen's research utilizes molecular imaging to characterize and validate novel stem cell-based targeted therapeutics for treatment of highly aggressive brain cancers.

Amy_Oldenburg

Amy Oldenburg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

aold@email.unc.edu

http://www.physics.unc.edu/~aold/index.htm

Dr. Oldenburg’s research focuses on the development of novel techniques in optical and acoustic imaging, and contrast-enhanced imaging using metallic nanoprobes.

	Javed Mostafa, Ph.D. Professor Information Science and Biomedical Research Imaging Center Director: Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research Carolina Informatics Program jm@unc.edu http://lair.unc.edu

Marc Niethammer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

mn@email.unc.edu

Medical image analysis, shape analysis, image segmentation and registration, with a focus on longitudinal registration models

Dinggang_Shen

Dinggang Shen, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Radiology

IDEA Lab

www.med.unc.edu/bric/ideagroup

dgshen@email.unc.edu

Dr. Shen’s focus is medical image analysis, especially on (1) neuroimage analysis with application to brain development, aging, and disorders, and (2) cancer imaging analysis with application to prostate, breast, and lung cancer diagnosis and radiotherapy.

Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D.

Director of Small Animal MR Imaging

Assistant Professor

Departments of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering

(919) 843-4729

http://www.unc.edu/~shihy/

shihy@neurology.unc.edu

Dr. Shih’s group focuses on developing and applying high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electrophysiology technologies to study neurovascular functions in animal models.