Meryem Karaman, PhD

Title & Department

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Department of Bioengineering - Medicine

College of Medicine

Research Program

Translational Oncology Program (TO)

Phone: (312) 413-7849

Email: mkaraman@uic.edu

The overall goal of Dr. Karaman’s research is developing advanced diffusion-weighted MRI techniques for the characterization of complex tumor tissue; and integrating these techniques into computational models for cancer detection, tumor grading, and treatment monitoring. She is particularly interested in investigating their feasibility in probing the tumor tissue microstructures and microenvironment in different cancer types and organs, including adult and pediatric brain tumors, gastric cancer.

Education

PhD, Marquette University; MS, Marquette University

Disease Focus

Brain; Breast

Research Keywords

Cancer Imaging; Breast Cancer Treatment Monitoring; Tumor Tissue Microstructures; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Diffusion Weighted Mri; Glioma; Tumor Heterogeneity

Additional Language(s)

Turkish
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