Kimberly Chan, PhD

After completing a bachelors degree in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Kim went on to research for a year in Brian Wandell's lab at Stanford University where she developed and evaluated diffusion MRI models.  In 2014, Kim moved to Baltimore to pursue my doctoral degree in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University under Richard Edden and Peter Barker. She is now an Instructor at the Advanced Image Research Center and deparment of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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Ashey Harris, PhD

Ashley received Bachelor’s degrees in both Bioengineering and Biology from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She went on to complete her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Calgary. Ashley joined Richard Edden’s lab as a postdoc where she made a series of contributions to edited MRS and GABA methodology. Ashley is now an Assistant Professor in the department of Radiology at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair in MR Spectroscopy of Brain Injury.

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Mark Mikkelsen, PhD

Mark received a BSc in psychology at the University of Glasgow and a MSc in neuroimaging under the supervision of Paul Mullins. Later he obtained his PhD at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) under Krish Singh, Petroc Sumner, and John Evans. After Cardiff, Mark worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Narender Ramnani's lab at the University of London and later in Richard Edden's lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Mark is now an Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Muhammad Saleh, PhD

Muhammad hails from Zanzibar, Tanzania. He completed his undergraduate degree in Mechatronics Engineering and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Biomedical Engineering at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Afterward, he joined Richard Edden’s group as a postdoctoral fellow where he developed new magnetic resonance spectroscopy methodologies. Muhammad is now a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

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Nick Puts, PhD

Nick (Nicolaas) received his BSc in Biology and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, researched at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and then the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany. He received his PhD while working under David McGonigle from Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). He later joined Richard Edden and Stewart Mostofsky at Johns Hopkins developing MRS applications for sensory and neurodevelopment.

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Steve Hui, PhD

Steve’s postdoctoral research focused on the development of new sequences and software for brain MR spectroscopy. He participated and remains participating in the HBCD study a large NIH-funded study of early-childhood brain development involving 25 sites around the US. He was also involved in a couple of other collaborative studies including the investigation of frequency drift which included 80 participating sites using over 100 3T MR scanners from 3 major vendors, and the study to investigate the relationship between age and macromolecular concentrations. Steve also developed MRSCloud, a cloud-based platform for generating metabolite basis sets for linear-combination modeling analysis, which aims to help community users to acquire basis sets in a reliable and convenient manner.

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Kathleen Hupfeld, PhD

Kathleen Hupfeld received her PhD from the University of Florida in December 2021 and started as a postdoctoral fellow with Richard Edden in January 2022. Her PhD work, funded by NSF GRFP, NINDS T32, and NIA F99 awards, used neuroimaging, MR spectroscopy, and brain stimulation to examine brain changes with aging and with spaceflight. Her postdoctoral work, funded by a National Institute on Aging K00 award, focused on applying MR spectroscopy to better understand brain changes in aging and age-related disease. Her first projects with Dr. Edden, and collaborator Dr. Kyrana Tsapkini, have focused on characterizing neurometabolites in aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare disorder that impairs language in people as young as 40.