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