David Cormode Associate Professor RadiologyPrimary Bioengineering Research Website | Personal Website | Publications List About David Research David Cormode, Professor in Bioengineering (BE) and Radiology, leads his lab, The Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging Laboratory, which focuses on the development of novel and multifunctional nanoparticle contrast agents for medical imaging applications. Currently, his lab’s main focus is the development of gold and bismuth nanoparticles as contrast agents for computed tomography (CT).The lab’s others areas of interest include novel computed tomography-based imaging methods, such as dual energy CT, spectral CT and iterative image reconstruction. These approaches provide enhanced characterization of cardiovascular diseases and cancers, which should allow improved selection of therapies and monitoring of response to treatments. Education Cormode earned his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in 2002. In 2006 he earned his Ph.D. from Oxford where he synthesized multifunctional nanoparticles under advisement from Prof. Paul Beer. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he developed a variety of nanoparticle platforms as contrast agents for MRI, CT and fluorescence imaging under the mentorship of Prof Zahi Fayad and Willem Mulder. Awards Cormode has published more than 130 papers and has received more than 40 grants. He has received a number of awards throughout his career, including The Distinguished Investigator Award (2020), Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research The Philips key opinion leader (2011) The American Chemical Society ‘Chemluminary Award’ for Younger Chemists Committee organizer activities (2011) The Philips CT NetForum Publication of the Year (2010) The Best Oral Presentation, Mount Sinai School of Medicine Postdoc Symposium (2010) The Doctoral Trainee Award, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK (2002-2006) – full scholarship for DPhil research at the University of Oxford The Gibbs Book Prize, and the University of Oxford – awarded for placing in the top 2% of Chemistry students at the University of Oxford in final exams for the MChem degree (2001).
