James P. Basilion received the B.A. degree in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1984, and entered the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Following his graduate studies he took a Postdoctoral Fellowship at NIH-NICHD in the Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch. During his postdoctoral work he began a series of studies with investigators at the Center for Molecular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to exploit iron metabolism for molecular imaging. This work resulted in the creation of a transgene and magnetic resonance imaging probes suitable for imaging gene transfer and changes in endogenous levels of internalizing receptors in vivo both noninvasively and in real time with magnetic resonance imaging. In 1996, he left the NIH to take a position as a Senior Scientist at a small genomics/anti-cancer biotech company. In 1999, he joined the Faculty of Harvard Medical School and MGH as an Assistant Professor of Radiology. With the Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging, he formed the NFCR Center For Molecular Analysis and Imaging and has been attempting to mine the rich genomic databases with an eye on informing molecular imaging technologies. Currently, he heads a small group of Ph.D.s and physicians that are attempting to identify informative markers and molecular signatures of disease and are developing imaging agents suitable to image simultaneous expression of multiple markers. Dr. Basilion is a member of several societies, has held several offices in the Society for Molecular Imaging, has written numerous reviews on molecular imaging and genomics and holds editorships on three imaging or imaging related journals. In September 2005, he will join the Case Center for Imaging Research as an Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University.