James P. Basilion
Director
Case Center for Imaging Research
USA
Biography
James P. Basilion is Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University. He has been the Co-Director of the Cancer Imaging Program at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center since its inception. He now is a tenured full professor in both the Departments of Radiology (SOM) and the department of Biomedical Engineering (Case School of Engineering). For the last 2 years he has been the Director of the Case Center for Imaging Research and the Vice Chair of Basic Sciences Research for the Department of Radiology. He is working to develop a much desired clinical translational infrastructure to service the Center’s molecular imaging pipeline. He reviews for several academic journals, serves as an External Advisory Board Member for the Pacific Ovarian Cancer Research Consortium, the Breast Cancer (Ad Hoc) research programs, and was a standing member on the MEDI Study Section for NIH and has just accepted appointment onto the CMIP study section. He holds several editorial board positions for Molecular Imaging centric journals.
Research Interest
-Imaging Transferrin Receptor Expression. *In vivo Imaging of Human Schistosome Parasites. *Enhanced Detection of Breast Tumors by MR imaging. -Multiplexed Imaging of Molecular Targets. *Intra-Operative Molecular Imaging.