Affiliation: Albany Medical College, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Margarida M. Barroso is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College in Albany, New York. She received her PhD in Genetics from the University of Lisbon/Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences in Portugal and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey. She is a faculty instructor in several international imaging courses and has two issued patents on Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) imaging technology. Dr. Barroso belongs to SPIE - The International Society of Optics and Photonics, American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB), Biophysical Society, and is the Past-President of the Histochemical Society. She has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals and acts as a reviewer for several internationally recognized journals as well as for U.S. and international research funding institutions. Dr. Barroso’s research goal is to accelerate preclinical drug discovery by developing novel imaging assays to screen and optimize the delivery of targeted anticancer drugs. She is also interested in the regulation of membrane trafficking pathways and of receptor-mediated cholesterol and iron transport in vitro and in vivo. Dr. Barroso’s diverse expertise integrates basic cell biology with methodological advances in imaging technologies to position her research group as a major force in the visualization, quantitation, and optimization of drug delivery into cancer cells using receptor-targeted approaches.