ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR Translational Nanomedicine & Drug Delivery
Research Interests: Nanomedicine and image-guided drug delivery for novel diagnostic and therapeutic applications in oncology
Corbin Lab

PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR Computational Biology
LYDA HILL DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS CHAIR
Research interests: Causal inference in molecular pathways, cell morphological control of signaling and metabolism, computer vision and machine learning of cell dynamics, roles and regulation of cell morphogenesis in metastasis, especially in pediatric sarcomas
Danuser Lab

PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR Biomaterials, Mechanics, and Tissue Engineering
Research Interests: Understand the basic biomechanical and neurophysiological properties of the lower limb after neurological lesions. Explore the neuro-mechanical underpinnings of lower limb impairments after stroke, with the goal of informing future clinical interventions

PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR Biomedical & Molecular Imaging
Advanced Imaging Research Center
Research Interests: Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; ultra-high field MRI; hardware; RF coils; B0 shimming; sequence development; data analysis
AIRT Lab

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR Medical Physics
Research Interests: 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis, 4D MRI reconstruction, artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy, biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis, deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy, radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization
AIRT Lab

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Immunotherapy and radiotherapy in cancer prevention and treatment; premature aging and carcinogenesis; DNA damage response signaling in heart development

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Development of hybrid positron emission tomography (PET) (e.g. PET-CT and PET-MR) tools to enable precision imaging for the care and study of oncology, neurology, and cardiology patients

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: NMR spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy in conjunction with the application of stable isotope tracers to study metabolic function

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Developing non- and minimally invasive optical tools to monitor deep tissues in health and disease, as well as throughout therapy

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Cancer, cell polarity, developmental biology, morphogenesis, stem/progenitor cells, tissue engineering and regeneration.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Genomic, genetic, and molecular approaches to autism spectrum disorders

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Nerve regeneration; long nerve gap repair; nerve-machine interface

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Molecular imaging techniques and nanomedicine-technology development to better understand and characterize liver disease

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Somatic diversification of antigen receptor genes; repertoire characteristics as biomarkers of immune status and disease; host-pathogen interactions

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Metastatic colonization, autonomous light-sheet microscopy, optical probes, computer vision

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Ultrasound contrast agent, perfluorocarbon emulsions, development of new ultrasound-based strategies for early detection and treatment of diseases

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: The long-term goal of our lab’s research is to develop and implement imaging technologies that provide unprecedented insight into cancer biology

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Prevention and early detection of neurological injury associated with surgery

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Activatable optical/MRI imaging probes to study tumor metabolism and theranostic nanomedicine for cancer-targeted drug therapy

PROFESSOR
Research interests: Evaluate the use of newly designed biodegradable stints to treat pulmonary artery stenosis

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Computational biology; analysis of protein sequences and structures

PROFESSOR
CHAIR, Statistical Science at SMU

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Single-cell regulatory genomics, cell fate engineering, function of non-coding elements and genetic variants.

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Heart-lung interaction; lung morphometry; structure-function correlation of lung growth

PROFESSOR
Research interests: Assessment of ventriculographie-arterial coupling in congenital and acquired heart disease. Cardiac MRI for improved vascular imaging

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Quantitative single-molecule imaging of receptor organization and signaling; linking molecular and cellular behavior across multiple scales; computational image analysis and data multiplexing

VICE CHAIR & CHIEF, PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Cloud and GPU-based high-performance computing in medical physics and imaging; automatic radiotherapy treatment planning; adaptive radiotherapy; image-guided radiotherapy; low-dose and dynamic-cone-beam CT

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Molecular recognition in protein folding, chaperone structural biology and neurodegeneration

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: DNA, RNA, and bisulfite sequence alignment, graph alignment to population of genomes and genotyping, personalized medicine with a focus on cancer diagnosis

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Comparative genomics, epigenetics, and alternative splicing analyses relevant to brain evolution and cognitive disorders

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Generation and application of hyperpolarized13C-labeled compounds and89Y-complexes for MRI/ Radiopharmaceutical applications

PROFESSOR & DIRECTOR
Research Interests: Computational genomics. Using molecular, genetic, genomic, and computational approaches to understanding signal-regulated gene expression. Integrating data from different genomic platforms using computational approaches

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & DIVISION CHIEF
Research Interests: Cell fate, wound healing, muscle fibrosis, heterotopic ossification, injury response

ASSISTANT PROFESOR
Research Interests: Computational cancer immunology, tumor-immune interaction and high-throughput profiling of immune receptor repertoire

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Probe engineering and targeted drug delivery to islet cells for treating diabetes; Islet biology with an emphasis on functional analysis on zinc signaling and zinc transporters in islet endocrine cells

ASSOCIATE PROFESOR
Research Interests: Structural and biochemical characterization of membrane proteins in cholesterol biosynthesis, metabolism and signaling

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational approaches to predict protein folding and aggregation; evolutionary dynamics

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Fast and motion-robust MRI acquisition and reconstruction, high-resolution MRI for in vivo imaging intracortical structure and deep nuclei, & novel MRI contrast and quantification of tissue properties

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy; treatment-plan optimization; radiation-dose calculations

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Bioresponsive nanomaterials for in vivo detection and therapy; targeted and activatable ultrasound (US) agents for the detection of inflammation and cancer

DIRECTOR - MAGNETIC RESONANCE RESEARCH
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Development and clinical translation of novel MR imaging techniques for detection and assessment of therapy response; non-contrast perfusion using arterial spin labeled (ASL) MRI; fat/water separated MRI; Whole-body MRI; MR Physics

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Parturition (the process of labor); cervical ripening; male and female reproductive biology

CHIEF - NEURORADIOLOGY
PROFESSOR & DIVISION CHIEF
Research Interests: Deep Learning applications in neuroimaging including brain tumor molecular marker prediction, Traumatic Brain Injury, MEG, MRI, fMRI

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: 13C MRS methods for measuring cardiac intermediary-metabolism flux and function analysis/neurotransmitter metabolism of human brain

DIRECTOR - PRE-CLINICAL IMAGING RESEARCH
PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Tumor pathophysiology and MR assessment of prognostic biomarkers/hypoxia and pH

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Developing state-of-the-art machine-learning approaches to extract radiological imaging and imaging-genomic biomarkers for individualized prognostics in neuroscience and oncological applications

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Methods development for cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, and next-generation sequencing; Structural studies of macromolecules with X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM single particle reconstruction; Higher-order structure of eukaryotic chromatin.

PROFESSOR & DIVISION CHIEF
MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT PARKLAND
DIRECTOR - NUCLEAR MEDICINE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Research Interests: Application of structural (X-ray, CT, and MR) and functional (SPECT and PET) imaging methods to quantify changes in bone mass and metabolism induced by metabolic bone diseases; in vivo assessment of beta-cell mass and function by novel probes; novel PET and SPECT probe development for bone cells

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Development of noninvasive molecular imaging tools to elucidate in vivo metabolism

PROFESSOR & VP (Radiology Research)
Research Interests: Development of novel MRI techniques for improved diagnosis of abdominal/pelvic diseases and noninvasive in vivo assessment of physiology and response to therapy in tumors

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & SURGICAL DIRECTOR OF CARDIAC TRANSPLANT
Research Interests: Heart, lung, and perfusion preservation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy

ASSISTANT PROFESOR
Research Interests: Spatial organization of tumors by combining machine identified phenotypes and existing pathology scoring within the framework established by cancer biology

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Molecular evolution, using protein sequence analysis to predict mutational effects on function, engineering protein regulation, mapping and modeling the relationship between enzyme activity and cellular growth rate, co-evolution in metabolic pathways.

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Integrating structure, kinetics, and computation to understand the molecular determinants and regulatory mechanisms of microtubule dynamics

PROFESSOR & ASSOCIATE DEAN, Basic Research
Research Interests: Cellular information processing; molecular mechanisms of G protein-mediated signaling: amplification, selectivity, response kinetics and signal integration

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Role of cycloxygenase-2 in radiation and chemo-resistance, role of small molecule inhibitors as radio-sensitizers

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Polymer and materials chemistry, drug and gene delivery, RNAi, biomedical imaging, detection and treatment of cancer

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Clinical application of nanoprobes with unique nanoscale behavior

PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR, Cyclotron & Radiochemistry Program
Research Interests: Development of PET, SPECT, and MRI imaging probes to assess biological abnormalities and evaluation of disease treatment

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Antibiotic resistance and sensitivity; single molecule biophysics; synthetic biology

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Endogenous and exogenous MRI contrast agents and mechanisms in vivo, CEST and PARACEST imaging, hyperpolarization

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR, Data Analytics & Informatics
Research Interests: Immunogenomics, Tumor genomics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, and Machine learning

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Biomedical optics, In Vivo cell tracking, Optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and Ultra-high dose rate irradiation

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Machine learning, Immunogenomics, and Tumor genomics

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Application of Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques (fMRI, DTI, MRS, etc). Correction of magnetic susceptibility artifacts on brain MRI caused by orthodontic appliances. MR Quality Assurance and Safety. MRI Assessment of Body Iron. Application of AI in medical imaging

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: My methodology research is focused on model development for high-dimensional data such as gene expression, epigenomics, copy number variation, proteomics, genome-wide RNAi functional screening data and brain image data.

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Biostatistics, bioinformatics, statistical genomics, clinical trial design, and biomarker studies

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, gene mapping for complex traits

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Detect early changes in the mitochondrial metabolism, in situ, as a marker for asymptomatic, subclinical, doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience

ASSISTANT PROFESOR
Research Interests: Computational Biology; Systems biology and functional Genomics; Machine learning and statistics for biomedical science; Genomic sequence-based regulation

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Biomedical imaging, molecular imaging, optical device design, nanomaterials, cancer biology and treatment

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Drug Resistance Mechanism, Drug Delivery Systems, Nanoparticles, Immunotherapy, Tissue Engineering

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Applying new technologies to improve clinical operations, and working in partnership with physicians to develop novel techniques.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Eukaryotic chromatin organization, mutational rates and spectra, biological signals and noise

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Urology; laparoscopy, telesurgical mentoring

UTSW Distinguished Fellow
Research Interests: Active machine learning driven cancer drug discovery

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Sub concussive head impact exposure in contact sports, traumatic brain injury, magnetoencephalography

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology

PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Research Interests: Biomaterials; circulatory assist devices

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIRECTOR, Clinical Medical Physics

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Deep learning application in magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE- MRI)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Tissue-Response modeling in radiation therapy

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: General psychiatry, aging and geriatric issues, new applications of lead placement in ECT and novel treatments of major depressive disorder including magnetic seizure therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and vagus nerve stimulation

PROFESSOR & CHAIR
Research Interests: Circulatory assist devices; cardiac metabolism

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, biomaterials, biomechanics, pediatric airway disorders

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Statistics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, genome-wide association studies

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Cervical cancer, developmental therapeutics, ovarian cancer, early detection of ovarian cancer

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Molecular-imaging instrumentation, linear and nonlinear diffraction tomography, tensor tomography, applied inverse problems

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Fast and motion-robust MRI acquisition and reconstruction, High-resolution MRI for in vivo imaging intracortical structure and deep nuclei, Novel MRI contrast and quantification of tissue properties

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Molecular Imaging, lung cancer, kidney cancer, tumor microenvironment

PROFESSOR
Director, Ultrasound Research
Research Interests: Novel molecular-based contrast agents, with emphasis on ultrasound solutions, which can be used to detect and/or treat cancer, including image guided tumor ablation, ultrasound directed drug or gene delivery, or cell-based therapy

PROFESSOR
Research Interests: fMRI; DICOMs

PROFESSOR
Program Director, Medical Physics Residency
Research Interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: In vivo MRS for studies of energy and phospholipids metabolism in brain and skeletal muscle

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCH, PROFESSOR & CHAIR
Research Interests: Neural cardiovascular control during exercise; reflex dysfunction in heart failure; reflex dysfunction in hypertension

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Clinical applications of new spectral CT technologies

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Deciphering molecular characteristics of tumors using Radiogenomics; Identifying quantitative imaging parameters reflective of molecular alterations in solid tumors as noninvasive prognostic and predictive tools; Characterizing biomarkers of bone metastasis

PROFESSOR
Associate Vice Chair, Research
Research Interests: Application of biomedical engineering to cancer research, developing novel cancer diagnostics and therapeutics to improve cancer treatment, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology, radiation oncology, translational research, cancer immunotherapy, cancer nanotherapeutics, cancer biomarkers, radioisotopes, nanoparticles, prostate cancer, chemoradiotherapy

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Biomaterial grafts, coatings and scaffolds; finite element analysis; polymer synthesis; bioresorbable polymer characterization

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Hip dysplasia, femoroacetabular impingement, hip motion, MRI, advanced imaging

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Director, Computational Physics
Research Interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: PET, SPECT, Deep Learning

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Adrenal disorders, relationship between obesity and metabolic health and hyposialylation of IgG in adolescent patients

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Medical Director, MRI
Research Interests: Applied mathematics and MRI methods for translational research in liver imaging with special focus on evaluation of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research Interests: Quantitative MRI acquisition and analysis, MRI safety