Moriel Vandsburger
Professor, Bioengineering
Office Address: 284 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Email: moriel@berkeley.edu
Office hours: Mondays 10:00 am, HMMB 284
Research areas:
Bioinstrumentation
We are developing novel molecular imaging diagnostics for quantitative imaging of disease physiology and gene/cell therapies using MRI as a platform technology.
Education
- 2010 Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
- 2004 B.S., Bioengineering, U.C. San Diego
Experience & Training
- 2025 – present Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering
- 2020 – 2025 Inaugural Timothy and Karen Guertin Endowed Chair in Bioengineering
- 2020 – 2025 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering
- 2016 – 2020 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering
- 2013 – 2016 Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky Departments of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering
- 2010-2013 Whitaker Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar, Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science
Honors & Awards
- 2015 Named Researcher to Watch, Lane Report
- 2015 Distinguished Reviewer Award, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 2014/2015 Distinguished Reviewer Award, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- 2012 – present Junior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- 2012 and 2013 Summa Cum Laude Merit Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Annual Meeting
- 2012 First Place, Poster Award, World Molecular Imaging Conference
- 2010 Finalist, I.I. Rabi Young Investigator Award, ISMRM Annual Meeting
- 2010 Vice President of Research Award for Outstanding Graduate Scholarship and Research in Science and Engineering, University of Virginia
- 2009 Finalist, Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award. American Heart Association, Scientific Sessions
- 2008 University of Virginia Cardiovascular Research Center Pre-doctoral Fellowship
2024
Lam, Bonnie; Velasquez, Mark; Ogiyama, Tomoko; Godines, Kevin; Szu, Fan-Yun; Velasquez-Mao, A. J.; Alghuraibawi, Wissam; Wang, Jingshen; Messersmith, Phillip B.; Vandsburger, Moriel H.
Imaging of adeno-associated viral capsids for purposes of gene editing using CEST NMR/MRI Journal Article
In: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 792-806, 2024, ISSN: 0740-3194.
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2023
Ayala, Cindy; Luo, Huiwen; Godines, Kevin; Alghuraibawi, Wissam; Ahn, Sinyeob; Rehwald, Wolfgang; Grissom, William A.; Vandsburger, Moriel H.
Individually tailored spatial-spectral pulsed CEST MRI for ratiometric mapping ofmyocardial energetic species at 3T Journal Article
In: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, vol. 90, no. 6, pp. 2321-2333, 2023, ISSN: 0740-3194.
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Shin, Soo Hyun; Wendland, Michael F.; Wang, Jingshen; Velasquez, Mark; Vandsburger, Moriel H.
In: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 774-786, 2023, ISSN: 0740-3194.
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2022
Velasquez-Mao, Aaron J.; Velasquez, Mark; Vandsburger, Moriel H.
Cyclical depressurization degranulates platelets in an agonist-free mechanism of platelet activation Journal Article
In: PLOS ONE, vol. 17, no. 9, 2022, ISSN: 1932-6203.
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