Darrell Tata, Ph.D.

Program Director

Image-Guided Intervention Branch

Dr. Darrell B. Tata is a Program Director in the Image Guided Intervention Branch of the Cancer Imaging Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He obtained his Ph.D. from University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics and completed several postdoctoral trainings from Stanford University in the Department of Radiation Oncology, the Mayo Clinic in the Department of Urology, and the University of Vermont in the Department of Pharmacology. Before joining the NCI, Dr. Tata worked as a Senior Biomedical Engineering Staff Fellow (2005-2016) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health. In this role, he served as a senior investigator of translational quantitative analyses in cancer detection via several technologies, including laser-based fluorescence, Raman, infrared spectroscopies, ultrasound, and X-ray imaging. Dr. Tata was responsible for performing scientific evaluation and analyses of non-invasive technologies utilized in aggressive cancer detection and therapy, and he was actively involved making recommendations in the decision-making process to approve and market new technologies. Dr. Tata has been the Program Director at the NCI's Cancer Imaging Program since 2016, where he has managed the Quantitative Imaging Network research grant portfolio. In this role, he oversees a team of dedicated scientists and researchers working on the development and validation of various imaging software tools for cancer diagnosis, and predictive outcomes of therapeutic interventions. Additionally, he is currently managing projects involved in the academic-industrial partnership grants related to minimally invasive image guided interventions for cancer detection and therapy.