Molecular Imaging and Biology - Meet the Editor-in-Chief

Professor Mark “Marty” Pagel is a Professor in the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. Dr. Pagel earned B.A. degrees in chemistry and biology in the laboratory of Dr. Joe Ackerman at Washington University in St. Louis, and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry with Dr. David Wemmer at the University of California Berkeley. He has held faculty positions in chemistry at Indiana University; biomedical engineering and radiology at Case Western Reserve University; chemistry, biomedical engineering and medical imaging at the University of Arizona, cancer systems imaging and imaging physics at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and his current role at the University of Wisconsin. He has also performed imaging research in industry at Monsanto and Pharmacia in St. Louis, MO. Dr. Pagel’s molecular imaging research employs chemistry, biochemistry, cancer biology, biomedical engineering, advanced image analysis, and radiology to perform research from bench-to-bedside. He employs MRI, MR Fingerprinting, PET/MRI, EPR imaging, and photoacoustic imaging to interrogate tumor pH, oxygenation, enzyme activity and vascular perfusion. He has developed these methods for imaging mouse models of cancer and for clinical imaging trials with cancer patients, especially to predict treatment outcomes before starting treatment, and to evaluate early responses to treatment soon after starting treatment. Dr. Pagel has held leadership positions in molecular imaging, including roles with the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS), the European Society for Molecular Imaging, the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and the Imaging in 2020 meeting. He is a Fellow of WMIS, and he has served as an Executive Board member, annual meeting Program Chair, and founder of the MoMIL study group for WMIS. He has chaired and participated in more than 60 grant review panels that focus on molecular imaging research. He has taught many courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as many workshops about scientific writing. He has authored more than 140 publications and book chapters, and he reviews approximately 36 manuscripts per year.