Nathalie Agar, PhD

Dr. Nathalie Agar is the Daniel E. Ponton Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of integrated biomolecular and drug imaging of tissue specimens. Her laboratory focuses on the mass spectrometry imaging of drugs and metabolism from pre-clinical animal models and clinical trial specimens to study therapeutics for brain tumors. She is also developing and validating real time mass spectrometry approaches to support surgical decision making. Her overall goals are to enable surgeons and oncologists to tailor treatment from the time of surgery, support the development of new therapeutics, and allow precision cancer care using molecular imaging with mass spectrometry approaches.