Erik Shapiro

Biography

Erik Shapiro is Associate Chair of Research and a Professor in the Department of Radiology. He also serves as Director of the Biomedical Imaging Division in the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering. His Molecular and Cellular Imaging Laboratory (MCIL) develops and uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT) for molecular and cellular imaging of biological phenomena, regenerative medicine, and early detection of disease.

Dr. Shapiro graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a degree in chemistry and holds a MS and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted his post-doctoral work in molecular imaging at the National Institutes of Health and spent six years as junior faculty at Yale University School of Medicine before joining MSU in 2012. Amongst his awards is a National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award.

Dr. Shapiro is interested in learning about how Israeli scientists maintain an exciting biotechnology entrepreneurial environment and achieve their many scientific accomplished in a context of limited financial resources and constant external threats and pressures. This information can prove useful even here in America where funds and resources can sometimes be in short supply. Further, he is interested in expanding collaborations with imaging experts at The Technion, Hebrew University and The Weizmann Institute.