Nathalie Y. R. Agar

Nathalie Y. R. Agar received the B.Sc. degree in biochemistry from Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, in 2002. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, and in the Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, from 2002 to 2005 and 2005 to 2007, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, and the Director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her laboratory focuses on the development and implementation of comprehensive molecular diagnoses through improved biochemical classifications. This will ultimately enable surgeons and oncologists to tailor treatment from the time of surgery, and allow personalized cancer care using molecular imaging with mass spectrometry. Dr. Agar has received numerous awards including the NIH Director's New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health in 2010.