Biography

Dr. Chaney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology in Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Chaney is a neuroimaging biologist with experience in clinical and preclinical multimodal molecular imaging in the context of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. She received her BA. Mod. in Neuroscience from Trinity College Dublin in 2011. She then located to the UK where she obtained a MRes in experimental physiology, drug discovery and Bio-imaging from Imperial College London, and a PhD in neuroscience and neuroimaging from the University of Manchester. She underwent postdoctoral training and held an Instructor position at Stanford University. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating non-invasive molecular imaging agents to elucidate the inflammatory component of devastating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, stroke and multiple sclerosis, with the ultimate aim of improving understanding, diagnosis and treatment.