Dr. Serkova is a tenured Professor and Vice Chair Research of Radiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her formal education includes training in Physics at the University of Grenoble (France, BS) and Biophysics/ Biochemistry the University of Kiev (Ukraine, MSc). After completing her Ph.D. in MR Physics, MRI Division, University of Bremen (Germany), she joined the Departments of Biopharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and Radiology at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow in 1997. Before joining the CU SOM in 2002, Dr. Serkova was Assistant Professor in MR Division at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Visiting Professor at the UCSF. At the CU SOM, she serves as the Associate Director in Shared Resources of the Cancer Center and founding director of the Colorado Animal Imaging Shared Resource (AISR), which is supported by the NIH/ NCI, the Cancer Center (UCCC) and the Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI). Dr. Serkova’s research interests are in the development of new imaging probes and acquisition protocols for oncology/ neurooncology, animal cancer models using the state-of-the-art preclinical scanners (Bruker 9.4 Tesla MRI, PerkinElmer IVIS Spectrum and Quantum CT, Siemens Inveon PET/CT, Mediso SPECT/CT). She have mentored 37 undergraduate students, 15 graduate students, 7 post-doctoral students and residents and published over 150 peer-reviewed publications in the area of oncologic imaging and metabolism.