Elizabeth Hutchinson

Dr. Elizabeth Hutchinson is an assistant professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona and leads the multi-scale brain imaging lab, which uses pre-clinical imaging – especially MRI – to better understand brain disorders and develop translationally relevant imaging markers.  Dr. Hutchinson has an educational background in physics and neuroscience and her research interests include neuroimaging and pre-clinical models of brain disorders.  She has contributed primarily in the areas of diffusion MRI methods and traumatic brain injury (TBI) models and in her work has identified several novel markers of brain pathology that follow brain trauma. She is also interested in the study of epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease using advanced imaging tools.  The main research approaches she uses are radiologic-pathologic correspondence and in-vivo validation studies to associate imaging markers with their biological underpinnings, the development of processing and analysis tools for multi-brain studies, the identification of imaging markers in human-similar models of injury and fixed specimen studies to establish the translational relevance of novel imaging markers.  Her current research activities continue to explore and apply advanced neuroimaging approaches through the use of translationally relevant models and pre-clinical neuroimaging across a range of spatial scales and modalities.