Bernadette Marquez-Nostra

University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Radiology

Dr. Bernadette Marquez-Nostra is an associate professor in the Division of Advanced Medical Imaging Research within the Department of Radiology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from California State University-Fullerton in 2005 and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California-Davis in 2011, under the mentorship of Prof. Claude Meares. She then underwent postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis from 2012 to 2017 and at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2017, working with Prof. Suzanne Lapi. She subsequently joined the faculty at the Yale PET Center as an assistant professor, where she established a cancer imaging laboratory from 2017 to 2023. Dr. Marquez-Nostra then relocated to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to further her research in developing nuclear imaging agents for predicting and monitoring responses to cancer therapies.

Monica Shokeen

Washington University School of Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology

Dr. Monica Shokeen is an associate professor of radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Shokeen received her BSc in Chemistry Honors from the University of Delhi, India; her MBA from Kurukshetra University, India; and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington University in Saint Louis. She completed her postdoctoral training in nanomedicine and radiochemistry at the Washington University School of Medicine. She joined the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine as an assistant professor on tenure track in 2014.Dr. Shokeen’s laboratory investigates the biology of bone-damaging cancers such as multiple myeloma. Her lab designs molecules and employs molecularly targeted imaging approaches across modalities to evaluate disease pathogenesis. Dr. Shokeen directs the Molecular Imaging Center and is the vice chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice at MIR. She is a prolific educator, course director, and inductee of the Academy of Educators. She serves on several institutional leadership committees and national and international review panels.