Physician-Scientist Advanced Scholar Program

Candidates interested in the Physician-Scientist Advanced Scholar Program in Oncologic Imaging should submit a letter of interest and a CV to Osama Mawlawi, Ph.D., Program Director, AdvancedScholarProgram@mdanderson.org.

Select individuals will be identified by committee review to participate in a comprehensive application process, with positions offered to the most exceptional applicants.

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Candidates must have successfully completed an ACGME Residency in Radiology to be eligible.

• Pre-fellowship through early first year of clinical fellowship
• Appointment: two to three years in duration after clinical fellowship
• Faculty title: Instructor
• Effort: 75% research, 25% clinical
• Custom designed research experience: wet bench, dry bench, interventional, animal, biostatistics, epidemiology, co-mentored by well-established research faculty (M.D. or Ph.D.)

Pratip Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Cancer Systems Imaging

• Research Interests: hyperpolarization, molecular imaging, metabolic imaging, metabolomics, real-time imaging, targeted imaging, nanomedicine, silicon nanoparticles, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), MRI, MRS, NMR, MR, 13C, 15N

John D. Hazle, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Imaging Physics

• Research Interests: image guided therapies, small animal (pre-clinical) imaging and nano-magneto relaxometry (nanoMRX)

Vikas Kundra, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
Diagnostic Radiology and Cancer Systems Imaging

• Research Interests: molecular biology and imaging, gene expression, imagable models of disease, nanoparticles, delivery, CT, MR, gamma camera, SPECT, PET, ultrasound, optical, hyperpolarization, ovarian, prostate, lung, and breast cancer

Chun Li, Ph.D., Professor
Cancer Systems Imaging

• Research Interests: theranostics, image-guided drug delivery, cancer nanotechnology, radiopharmaceutics

Jingfei Ma, Ph.D., Professor
Imaging Physics

• Research Interests: development and application of novel MRI data-acquisition and image-processing techniques

Osama Mawlawi, Ph.D., Professor
Imaging Physics

• Research Interests: nuclear medicine, PET/CT, quantification, image analysis

David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Cancer Systems Imaging

• Research Interests: molecular imaging, signal transduction, cancer biology, cancer metabolism, bioluminescence imaging, translational cancer research

Aliya Qayyum, M.B.B.S., Professor
Diagnostic Radiology

• Research Interests: clinical and translational studies with greatest focus on liver disease and prostate cancer, gynecologic and pancreatic malignancy, analysis of imaging biomarkers (MRI and CT) of cancer, and correlation with pathology, tumor markers

Dawid Schellingerhout, M.D., Associate Professor
Diagnostic Radiology and Cancer Systems Imaging

• Research Interests: molecular imaging, brain tumor imaging, novel imaging technologies

Konstanin Sokolov, Ph.D., Professor
Imaging Physics

• Research Interests: molecular imaging, nanotechnology, multimodal nanoparticles, plasmonic nanoparticles, drug delivery, biodegradable nanoparticles, biosensors

Wei Yang, M.D., Professor and Chair
Diagnostic Radiology

• Research Interests: optical imaging, photoacoustics, laser acoustic, optical spectroscopy, breast neoplasm, axillary nodes, breast cancer