Paula Jacobs Appointed Associate Director in NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis ► NCI Cancer Bulletin for May 29, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

NCI Cancer Bulletin for May 29, 2012 - National Cancer Institute

Paula Jacobs Appointed Associate Director in NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

Dr. Paula Jacobs

Dr. Paula Jacobs has been appointed associate director in NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis and will be responsible for the Cancer Imaging Program. Dr. Jacobs began working at NCI after 30 years in the private sector, where she developed ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide drugs as magnetic resonance imaging agents and iron replacement therapies.

Her research at NCI has focused on lowering the scientific, logistical, and regulatory barriers to investigational use of PET radiopharmaceuticals for therapeutic drug development. She works to standardize imaging techniques to make them more reliable and conducts exploratory research to correlate genomic information about tumors with tumor imaging data.