Profiles

Penny Wieser, a 2022 Rose Hills Innovator, is developing a new approach to study the magma stored deep beneath a volcano. Read at Berkeley Research website.

Hertz Fellow Sarah Hooper is helping develop a solution to both reduce diagnostic imaging costs and address shortages and delays in radiology: integrate automated, machine learning algorithms into the medical imaging workflow. Read at Hertz Foundation.

For decades, many scientists have described the blood-brain barrier—a tight network of cells that separates the brain from the blood—as a nearly impenetrable border wall. But Andrew Yang, PhD, who is joining Gladstone Institutes as an assistant investigator, thinks there’s more to it than that. Read at Gladstone Institutes Newsroom.