Affiliation: 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.