Dr. Francesca Zanderigo, PhD, is a Bioengineer, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Brain Imaging Lab in the Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Area at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She has worked for over 17 years now in the field of medical imaging research, performing extensive quantification, mathematical modeling and analysis of brain images and data from both Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography for the investigation of cerebral hemodynamics and neuroreceptor systems. Dr. Zanderigo's research focuses on the extraction of accurate quantitative information from medical images, for the purpose of improving disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment.