CV Science

Lori Bridal Research Director, CNRS

Course and current status

Research Director in the French National Research Center (CNRS) and the Director of the Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging (Sorbonne University, Inserm & CNRS) in Paris, France developing biomedical imaging research to address the major public health of age-related bone modifications, cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease.

1988: B.S. degree in Physics from Oklahoma State University as a National Merit Scholar

1990 M.S. degree in Physics from Washington University in Saint Louis.

1994 Ph.D. degree in Physics from Washington University in Saint Louis.

1995 post-doctoral research in the Parametric Imaging Laboratory in Paris, France supported by a French Chateaubriand Fellowship.

1997 CR CNRS in the Parametric Imaging Laboratory in Paris, France.

Scientific summary

Research interests include the development of more robust image-based assessments and integration of multi-parametric information (chiefly with ultrasound) for specific and sensitive evaluation of cancer status and its therapeutic response. Signatures of my research are to strive to achieve system-independent measurements from localized regions so that parameter maps can be compared more effectively over time.

Received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2004 for original research demonstrating that high-resolution, localized measurements of intrinsic tissue acoustic properties could be used to map atherosclerotic plaque composition. Fundamental studies of “post-excitation” acoustic emissions from ultrasound contrast agent microbubbles recognized with an award for best published paper in the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control in 2006.  Co-author of work receiving the Best Paper award in 2015 at the IEEE UFFC International Ultrasonics Symposium. I have given 13 invited presentations at international conferences and participated in international collaborations (PICS CNRS, Fulbright, NIH).