Our Vision

To integrate quantitative radiological features with biological characteristics of diseases.

Our Mission

To utilize biological characteristics to synergistically drive the development of optimal radiological biomarkers to enhance prognostic and predictive accuracy in patient care.

About Us

Welcome to the Department of Radiology’s Cell and Molecular Biology in Quantitative Imaging (CMBQI) program. Our program is focused on developing and optimizing companion biological studies involving fresh frozen tissue processing for genomic analysis, and histopathology, human/rodent primary and cell line culturing studies, standard microbial and molecular biology techniques, in vivo tumor model development, and microscope assessment for molecular pathology. We can interface with the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center tissue core, and Children’s Research Institute Metabolomics facility to support various radiology research projects. We encourage interested radiology residents and fellows to utilize our facility to enhance their hands-on laboratory biomedical science research expertise. We are located in the NE building on north campus, Rooms NE6.130, and NE6.132.