​anna Moore

Biography

Dr. Anna Moore is a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and is the Director of the Molecular Imaging Laboratory at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Moore, a Co-Founder of TransCode, is recognized nationally and internationally for her groundbreaking research on targeted imaging and image-guided drug delivery in cancer. Her research in image-guided cancer therapy leads the field with significant advances in nucleic acid based theranostics, where technologies are developed to both diagnose and treat a variety of cancers. Dr. Moore was awarded multiple grants from the NIH and other funding agencies, and published results from these studies in the most prestigious scientific journals including Nature Medicine, Nature Protocols, Nature Photonics, Nature, Cancer Research, PNAS and others. Dr. Moore has received many awards and honors for her research, most recently a Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research in Washington, DC, and a Valkhof Visiting Professorship from Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, both in 2014. As one of the major contributors to the field of Molecular Imaging, she was elected to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) and a member of the Executive Committee of WMIS. She is the current Regional (US) Editor for Molecular Imaging and Biology, the official journal of WMIS. Dr. Moore holds a Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Research Interest

Informatics