Daniel S. Marcus, PhD

Daniel S. Marcus, PhD, is a professor of radiology for WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington (MIR). As director of the Neuroinformatics Research Group (NRG) based in the Computational Imaging Research Center (CIRC), he and his colleagues build imaging informatics and analysis tools with a particular focus on neuroimaging. The NRG has developed the XNAT imaging informatics platform (www.xnat.org), an open-source software platform used in facilities around the world to manage and share neuroimaging and related data. He previously served as director of the CIRC.

Marcus directs several service cores at the university, including for the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Research Center, and NINDS Center Core for Brain Imaging. He’s also an investigator in several NIH-backed initiatives to develop a national informatics infrastructure, including the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), and Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (I2B2).