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Paula Foster, PhD, makes the invisible visible.
Using some of the world’s most cutting-edge imaging technology, she’s discovering new ways for researchers to better track and understand the paths cells take in the body and how that impacts disease.
The imaging specialist has been at the forefront of developing novel technologies and practices for decades, and her lab was the first in the world to show that an MRI could detect single iron-labelled cells.
Now, as part of Western’s Imaging Pathogens for Knowledge Translation (ImPaKT) Facility at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, she’s heading the first lab in Canada using a brand-new Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) machine for cellular and molecular imaging – one of only five in the world.
