Mark Muzi, M.S.

Director of Image Analysis

Research

Biography

Mark Muzi graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, WI, and from Eastern Washington University with a graduate degree (MS). His graduate work focused on imaging brain activation in homing salmonids using [C-14]-glucose autoradiography, a precursor to PET imaging.

He is currently Director of Image Analysis in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) and the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) PET Core Lab with 40 years of experience in cancer imaging using PET. Currently his effort has shifted to breast cancer and prostate cancer clinical trials sponsored by ECOG-ACRIN.

Muzi is funded by an NIH/NCI R50 award, and is the only person at UW to receive a grant through this mechanism.

Research Interests

For 25 years Muzi focused on brain cancer research, collaborating with Dr. Alex Spence in Neurology with research focuses on the design and implementation of dynamic PET protocols for cancer imaging and PET multi-center clinical trials research.