Iwona Dobrucka
Assistant Director - Molecular Imaging Laboratory
Primary Affiliation
Biomedical Imaging CenterAffiliations
Status Administrative Staff
Home Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Phone 333-4231
Email dobrucka@illinois.edu
Address 4057 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Iwona Dobrucka is currently a senior research scientist at Beckman Institute and directs the Molecular Imaging Laboratory (MIL) in Biomedical Imaging Center (BIC). Prior to joining Beckman Institute in 2011, she did postdoctoral training in cancer biology at Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Radiation Therapy, New Haven, Conn.
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Research
Research areas:
Molecular imaging
Molecular PET-CT
Nanoparticle bioimaging probes
Nanosensors
Optical diagnostics for cancer
SPECT-CT
Iwona Dobrucka's fields of professional interests include development of novel targeted microSPECT/PET-CT imaging strategies to stage cancer disease and assess tumor growth and metabolism in animal models of disease. In addition, her research is focused on studying interactions between traditional anti-cancer therapeutics and complementary alternative medicines (CAMs) used by cancer patients. Iwona Dobrucka’s expertise is in cancer cell biology and the pathophysiology of reactive oxygen species, including molecular imaging of tumor response to therapy and cardiotoxicity of anti-cancer drugs.