Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
9:30-10:20am
MJIS 1001
https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/95028921977
Image-Guided Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy Strategies for Cancer
Matthew Scarpelli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Health Sciences
Purdue University
Abstract:
Radiotherapies and immunotherapies can provide survival benefits when used to treat cancer patients. However, there remain a number of patients for whom these treatments are ineffective.
In this talk, medical imaging will be used to study these therapies and provide insight relating to why they might be ineffective in some patients but successful in others. The talk will include two sections: 1) application of existing medical imaging methods
to improve therapy and 2) development of new medical imaging methods. It will focus on application of PET and MRI techniques.
Bio:
Dr. Matthew Scarpelli is an Assistant Professor within the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University. He obtained a B.S.E. degree in Nuclear Engineering and Radiologic Sciences
from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. degree in Medical Physics from the University of Wisconsin. He did his postdoctoral work at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix Arizona. As a faculty at Purdue, his lab utilizes radiation as a diagnostic and
therapeutic tool to treat disease. The lab is specifically interested in the interplay between radiation and the immune system. Studies aim to elucidate mechanisms of radiation induced immune suppression/ stimulation as well as develop new imaging techniques
for assessing the immune system.
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