# Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $298,733

## Abstract

Abstract
The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders
in organism-level, biomedical imaging technology and application research. Multi-disciplinary teams of
engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the
advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical
imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon
continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging
infrastructure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going
interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for
Imaging Research which includes state-of-the-art clinical and small animal imaging systems, along with labs of
mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and
Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research
projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or
more mentors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our
educational program includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image
analysis, and reconstruction, as well as nanomedicine. We will promote a culture of interdisciplinary research
during a designated Imaging Hour. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under-
represented minorities. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post
docs and ensured training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. In less than nine years, our T32 program
has already successfully trained several graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory
towards success. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging
research and with excellent research productivity.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10220966
- **Project number:** 5T32EB007509-15
- **Recipient organization:** CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** DAVID Lynn WILSON
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $298,733
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2007-09-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10220966

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10220966, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program (5T32EB007509-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10220966. Licensed CC0.

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