Dr. Kao joined Translational Imaging Research Center (TIRC) at Taipei Medical University (TMU) at the end of 2014. Dr. Kao’s role at TMU is to offer anatomical, physiological, and functional MRI technical and intellectual support to the faculty and students. Our group has implemented multi-model and translation MRI techniques to measure blood flow, blood volume, water diffusion, white-matter integrity, blood-brain-barrier disruption and network oscillation changes in preclinical animal models. Dr. Kao also established the laboratory of preclinical brain imaging (PBI Lab) aiming to probe the functional and metabolic changes along disease progression using the most advanced MR technique in different preclinical models including mild traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic hypoxia and etc.

Dr. Kao was trained as an electrophysiologist during her PhD and joined University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill as a Postdoctoral Fellow engaging animal functional MRI research for about 3 years since 2012. Her experience in cutting-edge electrophysiology and MRI techniques put me in a very unique position to bring innovations to the field of neuroscience research. Together with the clinical relevant animal models, image process platform and the clinical vision supported by TIRC, we’re confident that we’re on the path carrying out some leading research in the field of translational neuroimaging.