Erik Marcellus Shapiro, Ph.D.

Dr. Erik M. Shapiro is the Associate Chair of Research and a professor in the Department of Radiology. He is also the Division Director for Biomedical Imaging at the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering. Dr. Shapiro graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a BS degree in chemistry and holds a MS and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He conducted his post-doctoral work in molecular imaging at the National Institutes of Health. He spent 6 years as an assistant professor at Yale University before joining Michigan State University. Dr. Shapiro is a recipient of an NIH Fellows Award, an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and a Distinguished Investigator Award from RSNA.

Molecular and Cellular Imaging Laboratory

The Molecular and Cellular Imaging Laboratory develops new imaging approaches for MRI, X-ray, and nuclear medicine in order to understand biology, to detect disease at early stages and to monitor treatments. Our efforts are geared toward a wide variety of important biomedical topics ranging from stem cell transplantation and migration, cancer diagnostics and therapy, abnormal liver pathologies, and tissue engineered scaffolds. The tools we develop include multi-modality contrast agents and nanomaterials, engineered protein transporters, large animal models of disease and artificial intelligence image analysis.