# Training in Image Guidance, Precision Diagnosis and Therapy

> **NIH NIH T32** · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · 2022 · $18,482

## Abstract

The proposed T32 training program provides image guided therapy (IGT) training. It is a logical extension of
our National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT: P41 EB 015898) program at the Brigham and
Women’s Hospital. This is a unique environment-namely the advanced multi-modal image-guided operating
rooms (AMIGO)-where the infrastructure and expertise co-exist to provide training in IGT from basic biology
and pathology, to translational studies and Phase 2 clinical trials. All our AMIGO clinical programs provide
state of the art care for patients, supplemented with imaging and cutting-edge research opportunities. All the
teams currently working in AMIGO are multidisciplinary (MDs & PhDs). Our training program represents a
unique approach to IGT. There are no other genuinely multidisciplinary, training structures available elsewhere
to learn techniques and clinical applications in an advanced multimodality interventional/intraoperative setting.
One of the critical issues of advancing the field of IGT is the lack of specially trained investigators who can
respond to both the medical and technological needs of progress. The significance of this program is that it
provides both the technological and clinical fundamentals for both MD and PhD trainees. The training includes
the relevant concepts, methods, technologies and treatments that are necessary to advance this field and
provide fully trained investigators for future IGT- related applications. This training program will therefore
provide an opportunity for physicians and scientists who wish to train with the complex advanced technology
that can diagnose, localize, and treat many types of diseases. Through multidisciplinary collaboration, our
training program will expand the pool of experts of new diagnostic and treatment modalities. We will implement
a dynamic, personalized thematic-based training curriculum that will be updated as breakthrough technologies
are discovered and brought to clinical translation. Our goal is for each IGT-trainee to follow a thematic
personalized program that best matches their prior training and experience with their future career goals. As
this training program is aimed at precision diagnostics and therapy through IGT applications, the candidate
pool will be post-doctorates-MDs and PhDs who are highly motivated to learn advanced IGT technologies and
innovative new clinical applications, who will be hired for 1 year, with a possible extension to 2 years. Over the
course of the training, fellows are exposed to both specialized and didactic curriculum, while concentrating on
a research project in their own thematic area of interest within the field of IGT. Required program coursework
will include understanding the science of biomarkers, a wide variety of IGT-related training activities such as a
comprehensive, clinically-relevant review and hands-on experience with the available and emerging
technologies, participation in cutting-edge research projects, strategies ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10405041
- **Project number:** 5T32EB025823-04
- **Recipient organization:** BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Fiona Fennessy
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $18,482
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-05-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10405041

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10405041, Training in Image Guidance, Precision Diagnosis and Therapy (5T32EB025823-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10405041. Licensed CC0.

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