Jacob Hooker
Jacob Hooker is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Associate Neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Director of Radiochemistry at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. He also holds affiliate appointments at the Broad Institute and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Hooker grew up in Asheville, North Carolina and earned a bachelor of science at North Carolina State University and a doctorate of philosophy in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley under Professor Matt Francis.
In 2007, Dr. Hooker was named as a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory while working with Dr. Joanna Fowler to develop new neuroscience-oriented imaging methods and protocols. Dr. Hooker then relocated to Boston in order to begin his independent academic career at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, and the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in 2009; in the same year, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by Barack Obama whose endorsement observed Dr. Hooker's scientific record and commitment to mentorship. He has since been conferred various national awards and profiled in the media
. Dr. Hooker currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and is a core faculty member of the MIT M+Vision Consortium as well as the Harvard Chemical Biology PhD program.[1]
References
- ↑ Grant, Bob. "Jacob Hooker: Weaver of Brain Science". The Scientist. The Scientist. Retrieved 25 April 2016.