The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved the R00 phase of Bo Zhao’s Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00).
Zhao is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
His research focuses on computational imaging and medical imaging, with an emphasis on the modality of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. This award will provide him with $750,000 over the course of three years to continue his research project: Optimized Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting for Rapid Volumetric Quantitative Neuroimaging.
Specifically, this project will support the technical development of rapid quantitative neuroimaging techniques by exploiting spin physics, and statistical inference and learning. Many clinical applications could potentially benefit from quantitative MR imaging techniques developed in this project, including the study of normal or diseased brain aging.
The NIH Pathway to Independence Award program facilitates a timely transition of outstanding postdoctoral researchers from mentored research positions to tenure-track positions. Zhao recently joined UT Austin after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
