Mark Lythgoe
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| alma mater = University College London
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Mark Lythgoe is Professor of Biomedical Imaging{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/3793-mark-lythgoe |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=profiles.ucl.ac.uk}}{{Cite web |last=UCL |date=2018-08-31 |title=Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/centre-for-advanced-biomedical-imaging/centre-advanced-biomedical-imaging |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging |language=en}} and Founder and Director of the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, based at University College London (UCL). He has published over 300 papers including publications in Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Medicine and The Lancet. His ongoing research is centred around a new device that combines both diagnosis and therapy into a single theranostic MRI system.{{Cite journal |last1=Yu |first1=Yichao |last2=Payne |first2=Christopher |last3=Marina |first3=Nephtali |last4=Korsak |first4=Alla |last5=Southern |first5=Paul |last6=García-Prieto |first6=Ana |last7=Christie |first7=Isabel N. |last8=Baker |first8=Rebecca R. |last9=Fisher |first9=Elizabeth M. C. |last10=Wells |first10=Jack A. |last11=Kalber |first11=Tammy L. |last12=Pankhurst |first12=Quentin A. |last13=Gourine |first13=Alexander V. |last14=Lythgoe |first14=Mark F. |date=February 2022 |title=Remote and Selective Control of Astrocytes by Magnetomechanical Stimulation |journal=Advanced Science |language=en |volume=9 |issue=6 |pages=e2104194 |doi=10.1002/advs.202104194 |pmid=34927381 |pmc=8867145 |issn=2198-3844}}{{Cite journal |last1=Baker |first1=Rebecca R. |last2=Payne |first2=Christopher |last3=Yu |first3=Yichao |last4=Mohseni |first4=Matin |last5=Connell |first5=John J. |last6=Lin |first6=Fangyu |last7=Harrison |first7=Ian F. |last8=Southern |first8=Paul |last9=Rudrapatna |first9=Umesh S. |last10=Stuckey |first10=Daniel J. |last11=Kalber |first11=Tammy L. |last12=Siow |first12=Bernard |last13=Thorne |first13=Lewis |last14=Punwani |first14=Shonit |last15=Jones |first15=Derek K. |date=April 2022 |title=Image-Guided Magnetic Thermoseed Navigation and Tumor Ablation Using a Magnetic Resonance Imaging System |journal=Advanced Science |language=en |volume=9 |issue=12 |pages=e2105333 |doi=10.1002/advs.202105333 |issn=2198-3844 |pmc=9036015 |pmid=35106965}} Lythgoe's multidisciplinary approach bridges the domains of healthcare engineering and clinical medicine, yielding multiple imaging breakthroughs and securing £45 million for his collaborative research program. As Director of the UCL Department of Imaging, Lythgoe has played a role in the translation of several new imaging developments into clinical practice{{Cite web |title=Mark Lythgoe |url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=I4b1WhgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=scholar.google.co.uk}}{{Cite web |url=https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article/74/7/1902/599821/Noninvasive-Quantification-of-Solid-Tumor |access-date=2023-10-18 |website=aacrjournals.org}}{{Cite journal |last1=Walker-Samuel |first1=Simon |last2=Ramasawmy |first2=Rajiv |last3=Torrealdea |first3=Francisco |last4=Rega |first4=Marilena |last5=Rajkumar |first5=Vineeth |last6=Johnson |first6=S. Peter |last7=Richardson |first7=Simon |last8=Gonçalves |first8=Miguel |last9=Parkes |first9=Harold G. |last10=Årstad |first10=Erik |last11=Thomas |first11=David L. |last12=Pedley |first12=R. Barbara |last13=Lythgoe |first13=Mark F. |last14=Golay |first14=Xavier |date=August 2013 |title=In vivo imaging of glucose uptake and metabolism in tumors |journal=Nature Medicine |language=en |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=1067–1072 |doi=10.1038/nm.3252 |pmid=23832090 |pmc=5275770 |issn=1546-170X}}
Early life
Lythgoe attended St Augustine's Catholic Grammar School in Wythenshawe, Manchester (became St John Plessington High School), then attended Xaverian College. He earned a master's degree in Behavioural Sciences from the University of Surrey, followed by a PhD in Imaging from University College London.
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