Anat Biegon
Stony Brook University, USA
Biography
Anat Biegon is Professor of Neurology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. She received a PhD in Neurobiology from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and had held research positions in academia and industry. Employing state of the art brain mapping techniques in human subjects including molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET), structural and functional MRI, as well as post mortem analysis of human and animal brain samples, she is engaged in studies of the brain mechanisms affected in brain injury, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and neuroinflammation. Her work includes development and validation of novel radiotracers and drugs for improving diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders.
Abstract
Abstract : High contrast visualization of breast cancer lesions with [11C] vorozole PET