Myriam Chaumeil, PhD came to UC San Francisco as a postdoctoral scholar, mentored by Sabrina Ronen, PhD. She has a multidisciplinary background in both biology and magnetic resonance (MR) physics and says her research program is a synergy between these two fields. Now, as an associate professor in residence, Dr. Chaumeil works within two departments at UCSF – Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Radiology and Biomedical Imaging.
Her lab is working to develop better and faster ways to image the brain and the way it works using hyperpolarized carbon-13 MR imaging technology. Overall, this technology has largely been applied to cancer research, but it has shown to be a viable tool for the imaging of neurological disorders often associated with inflammatory processes such as multiple sclerosis (MS), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) along…
