The Research Imaging Institute is strongly committed to graduate and post-graduate education. RII scientists hold faculty appointments in numerous departments offering graduate degrees, both at the UT Health Science Center and UTSA. In the graduate programs listed below, RII scientists are full members of the graduate program faculty. They are able to serve as mentors (Dissertation Committee Chairs) and to advocate for students seeking admission.
Access to RII research resources is also possible for students enrolled in graduate programs other than those listed below. This typically requires having a RII faculty member as co-Chair of your Dissertation Committee. Students from UT Austin (Psychology), UTSA (Neuroscience), Johns Hopkins University (Biomedical Engineering), and the University of Melbourne (Neuroscience) have exercised this option in the past.
RII faculty members specialize in structural and functional brain imaging, as well as cognitive and computational neurobiology. For more details regarding the interests of individual faculty members, please see their individual profiles.
1. UTHSCSA Radiological Sciences Program
This program has numerous tracks and specializations, including tracks leading to clinical certification in Medical Physics. Newly created tracks in Neuroscience Imaging (Ph.D. only) and Human Imaging (combining a Ph.D. with a Residency in Radiology, Psychiatry or Radiation Oncology) are the preferred tracks for
students seeking academic careers. RII faculty have graduated more than 20 doctoral students through this program.
James Bower, Ph.D.
Geoffrey Clark, Ph.D.
Peter Fox, M.D.
Gary Fullerton, Ph.D.
Jean Hardies, Ph.D.
Peter Kochunov, Ph.D.
Jack Lancaster, Ph.D.
Shalini Narayana, Ph.D.
William Phillips, M.D.
Nicole Wicha, Ph.D.
Donald A. Robin, Ph.D.
2. UTHSCSA Physiology Program
Students from this program have used PET and MRI imaging to study brain physiology in humans and animals.
James Bower, Ph.D.
Peter Fox, M.D.
3. UTHSCSA Cellular and Structural Biology Program
Students from this program have used imaging and spectroscopy to study brain morphology and composition (e.g., composition of myelin).
Peter Fox, M.D.
Jean Hardies, Ph.D.
Jack Lancaster, Ph.D.
4. UTHSCSA Biochemistry Program
Jean Hardies, Ph.D.
5. UTSA Biology Program
Students specializing in Neuroscience have used RII imaging facilities for projects relating to brain structure and function in humans and animals.
James Bower, Ph.D.
Peter Fox, M.D.
Nicole Wicha, Ph.D.
6. UTSA/UTHSCSA Biomedical Engineering Program
Peter Fox, M.D.
Jack Lancaster, Ph.D.
Donald A. Robin, Ph.D.
