Georgios Batsios

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States

Dr. Georgios Batsios is an Associate Specialist in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF, California, USA. He received a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University, Athens, Greece. He received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His doctoral thesis research was focused on evaluation of metabolic alterations in cancer and diabetes using magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy (MRI/S), including hyperpolarized 13C MRS in preclinical models. His postdoctoral research work was focused on developing novel 1H- and hyperpolarized 13C- MRS/I methods for metabolic imaging of tumor burden and treatment response in preclinical models of brain tumors. Currently, his work is focused in establishing innovative MR methods utilizing 1H-, 2H- and hyperpolarized 13C labeled biomolecules to provide non-invasive readouts of brain tumor metabolism in vivo and thereby allow assessment of tumor burden and response to therapy.