Prof. Dr. Anna Naumova is a Research Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington. She works closely with the Vascular Imaging Laboratory and the Cardiothoracic and Abdominal Advanced Imaging Lab. Dr. Naumova graduated from the Tomsk State University (Russia) with an MS in biology and applied informatics. She obtained her PhD degree from the Institute of Cardiology (Russia) and Doctor Habilitatus (Habil.D.) degree from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her postgraduate training was conducted at Johns Hopkins University (USA) to study cardiac energy metabolism and contractile function using MRI and spatially localized 31P MR spectroscopy in mouse models of human diseases. During her postdoctoral fellowship at the Vascular Imaging Laboratory (University of Washington, USA), she investigated the pathophysiological mechanisms of atherosclerosis and the efficacy of human stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte transplantation into the infarcted heart on animal models. Dr. Naumova has over 15 years of experience in the development of acquisition sequences and analysis software tools for translational magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. The ultimate goal of her research is to bring new quantitative imaging technologies to address the unmet needs of regenerative medicine, heart and brain tissue characterization, and the non-invasive imaging of heart failure treatment with transplanted cells.