Bioimaging Sciences
Department of Diagnostic Radiology
P.O. Box 208042
New Haven, CT 06520-8042
Tel: 203.785.2427
Fax: 203.737.4273
carolyn.meloling@yale.edu

The discipline of bioimaging is taking on new dimensions as scientists develop new sensors to explore biological structure and function, and visualize/analyze this information in three and four dimensions. Bioimaging research is fast becoming integrative in nature, both in terms of the type of sensor (e.g., NMR, x-ray, visible light for everything from microscopy to optical coherence tomography, ultrasound, etc.), scale (molecular to cellular to organ), and range of applications, from molecular crystallography to imaging the neuronal correlates of the mind.

Erik M. Shapiro, assistant professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a $1.5 million New Innovator Award by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). more...