We would like to invite you to the talk given by Prof. Dr. Yan Li.

  • Date: Thu, November 18, 2021
  • Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CEST
  • Place: Online (Zoom)
  • Language: English

Dr. Yan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on developing methods for obtaining reliable metabolic information from the brain to characterize spatial and temporal heterogeneity and the biological behavior during disease time for brain tumors, psychiatric and neurologic diseases.

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) is a powerful non-invasive tool for characterizing biochemical changes within tissue and has been widely used in psychiatric and neurologic diseases to estimate the relationship between metabolites and disease onset or progression. In this talk, Dr. Li will introduce the basic concepts related to this technique, summarize the methodologies for obtaining such data, and present some clinical applications showing how the results can be valuable for making diagnoses, assessing prognosis, and monitoring response to treatment. Lastly, she will share her experiences in clinical translation of MR spectroscopy for evaluating patients with glioma.