Radiopharmaceutical Design and Molecular Imaging
Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD, reviews radiopharmaceutical design and transcriptomic imaging in prostate cancer.
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Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Katherine Whittaker Ferrara, PhD, is the Division Chief for the Molecular Imaging Program and a Professor of Radiology at Stanford University in California. Dr. Ferrara has pioneered the use of ultrasound to image cardiovascular disease and cancer. Her laboratory is known for work in molecular imaging and drug delivery.
Dr. Ferrara earned her PhD from the University of California, Davis. Prior to this, she served as a project engineer for General Electrical Medical Systems, involved in the development of early magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound systems. Dr. Ferrara then earned a Master’s degree at California State University, Sacramento, where she used microprocessors to synthesize speech. She then completed graduate research at the University of California, Davis, where she developed ultrasound methods to measure blood velocity.
Dr. Ferrara is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the World Molecular Imaging Society, the Acoustical Society of America and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. She also served as the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of California, Davis. Dr. Ferrara has authored and co-authored over 350 publications and has been featured in prominent journals, including the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Nature Communications, Cancer Research, and Nuclear Medicine and Biology.
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