Malgorzata Lipowska, PhD
Title: Assistant Professor of Radiology
Division: Radioligand and Expert System
Focus Area: SPECT radiotracer development of renal and oncology agents
Other Focus: Synthesis and evaluation a variety of Tc-99m renal tubular agents in order to find a superior Tc-99m labeled renal tubular transporting imaging agent that will allow an accurate, reproducible, cost-effective, and rapid measurement of effective renal plasma flow (ERPF).
Design, synthesis, purification, chemical analysis and pre-clinical testing of radiopharmaceuticals; structure activity/distribution relationships; metal-based drugs.
Doctorate: Organic Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Current Organization:
Society of Nuclear Medicine
American Chemical Society
Career Sketch: Dr. Lipowska is an Assistant Professor in the Deprtment of Radiology at Emory University where she has been a faculty member since 1994. She supervises the operation of the chemistry and small animal laboratories. Dr. Lipowska’s expertise includes devising and executing multi-steps synthesis in organic chemistry with extensive hands-on experience with modern chromatography techniques and spectroscopic methods. She is primarily responsible for preparing and characterizing Tc-99m complexes by tracer labeling procedure for animal and human studies. She is a member of the Radiation Drug Research Committee at Emory University. She is a Co-Investigator of the NIH grant “Development of Tc-99m Renal Tubular Agents” (PI: Andrew Taylor, MD).