Senior Investigator
NIH Clinical Center
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dima A. Hammoud, MD
National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA
Dr. Hammoud is senior investigator and deputy director of the Center for Infectious Disease Imaging (CIDI), a joint initiative between Radiology and Imaging Sciences (RIS) at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Dr. Hammoud earned an MD degree at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. After her diagnostic radiology residency, she completed two fellowships in Neuroradiology and PET imaging at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and then joined the Neuroradiology faculty as Assistant Professor. In 2006, she joined the Neuroradiology faculty at NIH.
Research in the Hammoud lab focuses on the development of preclinical, translational, and clinical molecular imaging applications to improve the understanding of the pathophysiology of infection and to provide reliable imaging biomarkers of infectious diseases. Research in her laboratory focuses on understanding the pathophysiology of HIV infection, both in the brain and in the periphery, using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques, mainly positron emission tomography (PET). Another major interest of the Hammoud lab is the development and validation of fungal-specific imaging biomarkers in animal models and patients. She is also an expert in imaging high-consequence viral infections such as Ebola, Nipah and Lassa viruses, in collaboration with the Integrated Research Facility (NIAID), a BSL-4 biomedical research facility based in Fort Detrick, Maryland.