Dr. Jeff Bulte

Biography

Jeff W.M. Bulte is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, specializing in radiology, oncology, biomedical engineering, and chemical biomolecular engineering. His work focuses on molecular and cellular imaging, particularly in developing novel contrast agents for theranostics, with a specific emphasis on in vivo cell tracking and regenerative medicine. Bulte has pioneered techniques to label cells magnetically, enabling visibility through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic particle imaging (MPI). He is the inaugural radiology director of scientific communications and serves as the director of cellular imaging at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Cell Engineering. Bulte is a fellow and Gold Medal awardee of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), a fellow of the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS), a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a distinguished investigator of the Academy of Radiology Research. He completed his undergraduate degree in biology and a master's in medical biology at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and earned his Ph.D. in medicine, summa cum laude, from the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Before joining Johns Hopkins in 2001, he spent a decade at the National Institutes of Health as a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist in the Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research.

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