Alumni: Isabel Dregely, Ph.D.



Post-Doctoral Scholar
Web  Wu Lab                                                                                                                                


Research   My research focuses on developing imaging methods for multi-parametric MRI.

Background  I did my undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Supported by a Fulbright Fellowship I continued graduate school at the University of New Hampshire, USA. During my PhD, my research interest was in technical developments for hyperpolarized Xenon-129 MRI to image the lung. I joined the lab of Larry Wald at the Harvard/MIT Martinos Center in Boston to build a 32-channel array RF coil. I moved on to the lab of John Mugler at the University of Virginia to develop pulse sequences for lung imaging in patients with COPD and asthma. After my PhD, I worked two years at the University of Munich in Germany. There my research focused on developing methods for simultaneous PET/MR, including the development of PET compatible RF coils, MR-based motion correction of PET data, atherosclerosis vessel wall imaging in clinical and pre-clinical PET/MR studies and fast 3D imaging protocols for tumor perfusion imaging in oncology. I developed software tools for quantitative data modeling and registration of PET and MR data to generate multi-parametric maps. In summer 2013 I joined Prof. Wu’s lab at UCLA as a postdoctoral fellow. Here I am interested in developing novel pulse sequences for simultaneous diffusion and T2-parameter mapping to generate multi-parametric maps for cancer imaging.

Favorite thing about UCLA  Working with outstanding and fun colleagues, biking to work through Hollywood, enjoying ice cream in California’s endless summer…

Research Interests  Prostate Imaging, Cancer Imaging, Interventional MRI

Selected Publications  @PubMed  @GoogleScholar

Awards: 

-   2012      Junior Fellow ISMRM

-   2011      W.S. Moore Young Investigator Award ISMRM

-   2005      Fulbright Fellow