Yantian Zhang, Ph.D.

Branch Chief

Imaging Technology Development Branch

Dr. Yantian Zhang received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan in 1994. He has been with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1998 serving as a MR Physicist in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology in NIH Clinical Center from 1998 to 2004, as a program director in National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) from 2004 to 2011, and as a program director and later chief of the Imaging Technology Development Branch in the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 2011. As a research scientist and later a health science administrator, his main areas of work have been in medical imaging technology development and applications spanning research areas across major medical imaging modalities, ultrasound imaging, optical imaging, molecular imaging, and imaging informatics. Throughout his NIH career, he participated in many trans-NIH or trans-NCI program projects such as the NIH Blueprint Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K), NCI Provocative Questions (PQ), Quantitative Imaging Network (QIN), NCI Informatics Technology for Cancer Research (ITCR), and NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) programs. Prior to joining NIH, he worked in academia for 3 years in MRI technology development and applications research.