Neuroimaging Research Group
The UCSF Neuroimaging Research Group studies the structure and function of the healthy and diseased brain, and develops and applies innovative techniques for imaging, analyzing and monitoring the brain in neurologic and psychiatric disease. The Neuroimaging Research Group collaborates closely with experts in other departments and specialties in the search for improved understanding, tools, and outcomes.
Who we serve
The Neuroimaging research will translate to healthier futures for those who:
- Suffering from epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, cerebrovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s
- Requiring fetal or infant brain imaging to assess normal development and congenital brain malformations
- Experiencing psychiatric disease including schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder
- With brain tumor who require diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring
- With neck and back pain
- Experiencing substance abuse and addiction
- Suffering from infection and inflammatory disorders
- With traumatic brain injury
Conditions we address
The clinical application of our research includes special focus on:
- Normal brain development and congenital brain malformations in the fetus and infant
- Brain tumor diagnosis, treatment and monitoring
- Traumatic brain injury
- Neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Epilepsy
- Psychiatric disease including schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorder
- Addiction
- Infection and inflammatory disorders
- Neck and back pain
Who we partner with
We look forward to building relationships a wide range of partners:
- patients and their families
- researchers from our own and other institutions
- visionaries who seek to serve the populations we do
- corporate partners in neuroscience, data science and imaging
- donors committed to improving the lives of others
Beyond medical research
In addition to researching causes and treatments for brain disease, the Neuroradiology RIG collects and analyzes data from multiple sources and imaging modalities to better understand neurologic and psychiatric conditions. Our over-arching vision is to enable precision medicine approaches for individualized assessment and healing and population-based health approaches to addressing neurologic and psychiatric disease at a larger scale.
Who we are
The Neuroimaging Research Group is made up of:
- clinical and research faculty
- postdoctoral fellows
- research staff
- medical and graduate students
Our Neuroimaging research labs:
- Baby Brain Research Group (PIs - Orit Glenn, MD)
- Biomagnetic Imaging Lab (PIs - Srikantan Nagarajan, PhD)
- Brain Arteriovenous Malformations (bAVM) (PIs - Daniel Cooke, MD and David Saloner, PhD)
- BrainChange Study (PI - Olga Tymofiyeva, PhD)
- Cancer Metabolic Imaging and Therapy Lab (PI - Pavithra Viswanath, PhD)
- Chaumeil Lab (PI - Myriam Chaumeil, PhD)
- Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center (PI - Dan Vigneron, PhD)
- Imaging Research for Neurodevelopment (Xu Lab) (PI - Duan Xu, PhD)
- Lupo Lab (PI - Janine Lupo, PhD)
- Morrison Lab (PI - Melanie Morrison, PhD)
- Multimodal Metabolic Brain Imaging Lab (PI - Yan Li, PhD)
- Nelson Lab
- Neural Connectivity Lab (PI - Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD)
- Neuroradiology Clinical Section Research
- Rauschecker-Sugrue Lab
- The Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging
- VA Advanced Imaging Research Center (VAARC) (PIs - Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD and Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD)
- Wilson Lab (PI - David M. Wilson, MD, PhD)