Education
CADRe holds monthly research seminars in the Department of Radiology, featuring both internal and external faculty speakers, industry professionals, and broader experts to deliver lectures on topics related to CADRe’s mission and research innovation. Seminars are offered with both in-person and virtual options and are open to the Columbia community.
Past Seminars
May 4, 2026 – Zhongliang Zu, PhD
“Advancing Molecular Imaging with Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI and Machine Learning”
Zhongliang Zu, PhD
Research Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
April 16, 2026 – Benjamin Ellingson, PhD
“Imaging Biomarker Strategies for Drug Development in Gliomas”
Benjamin M. Ellingson, PhD
Professor, Radiological Sciences, Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and Neurosurgery
Director of MRI Research
Director, UCLA Brain Tumor Imaging Laboratory
Co-Director, UCLA Center for Computer Vision and Imaging Biomarkers
David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
March 2, 2026 – Chi Liu, PhD
“Imaging Technology Developments for Quantitative PET and SPECT”
Chi Liu, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Associate Director of Biomedical Imaging Technology, Yale Biomedical Imaging Institute
Director for Research Faculty Affairs, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Yale School of Medicine
December 17, 2025 – Daniel Kim, PhD
“Cardiovascular MRI: From Technical Development to Clinical Translation”
Daniel Kim, PhD
Knight Family Professor of Cardiac Imaging
Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Radiology
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Center for Translational Imaging
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
November 3, 2025 – Jonas Teuwen, PhD, and Vivien van Veldhuizen, MSc
“Foundation Models (for Radiology)”
Jonas Teuwen, PhD
Group Leader, AI for Oncology
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Vivien van Veldhuizen, MSc
PhD candidate, AI for Oncology
Netherlands Cancer Institute
October 29, 2025 – Moustafa Gabr, PhD
“Small Molecule Modulators of Immune Checkpoints: Therapeutic and Diagnostic Opportunities”
Moustafa Gabr, PhD
Associate Professor of Chemistry in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College
September 25, 2025 – Yi Wang, PhD
“Quantitative susceptibility mapping: techniques and applications”
Yi Wang, PhD
Professor of Physics in Radiology
Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University
August 11, 2025 – Santiago Coelho, PhD
“Brain Microstructure MRI”
Santiago Coelho, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R)
NYU University Grossman School of Medicine
May 30, 2025 - Els Fieremans, PhD
“Brain Microstructure MRI: Validation Clinical Translation, and Emerging Advances”
Els Fieremans, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology with Tenure
Co-Director of the MRI Biophysics Group at the Center for Biomedical Imaging
New York University Grossman School of Medicine