Strijkers‬Prof. dr. G.J. (Gustav) Strijkers is Full Professor (Preclinical and Translational MRI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Adjunct Professor at Mount Sinai, New York. He earned his PhD at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) with the tile Magnetic Nanostructures and was a post-doctoral fellow at John Hopkins University, Baltimore. He served as assistant professor and associate professor at TUE and at UvA. He was a reviewer for several international journals and funding agencies and a member of scientific associations. Currently, his group uses a translational approach for the development of novel MRI sequences for improved diagnostics of disease and therapy monitoring. Novel preclinical protocols for high field MRI are initially developed in mouse and rat models. The most promising protocols are then translated for human clinical MRI. He established research programs on the development of comprehensive accelerated MRI protocols which provide valuable readouts in preclinical studies on the development and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, the application of traditional and novel nano particulate contrast agents, the improvement of imaging speed in MRI by the use of parallel imaging and novel mathematical imaging acceleration techniques, the use of multi-contrast MRI for the comprehensive and real-time evaluation of cancer therapy, and the development of diffusion-MRI to assess heart and skeletal muscle architecture and structural integrity in health and disease. Read More Read Less