Eva Sevick-Muraca

Dr. Sevick is Professor of Molecular Medicine, Director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Imaging, and William S. Kilroy, Sr. Distinguished University Chair of Pulmonary Disease at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston where she and her team developed from the bench and translated to the clinic, near-infrared lymphatic imaging in >1000 infants, children, adults lymphedema, and animal models of human lymphatic diseases. Specifically, her team develops and uses optical lymphatic imaging of patients and animal models of human disease to understand how the lymphatic vasculature mediates immune responses and can be manipulated mechanically, surgically, and pharmacologically. Her current work focuses on imaging cerebrospinal fluid outflow in neurodegenerative conditions and on improving checkpoint blockade immunotherapy through lymphatic delivery for antigen-directed T-cell priming. Her work has been presented in over 200 peer-reviewed publications spanning engineering to the biological sciences. Eva is trained as a chemical/biomedical engineer, with a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon and postdoctoral training in Biophysics and Optics from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt, Purdue, Texas A&M, and Baylor College of Medicine. She has served as Chair and as an appointed member of study panels for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the State of California Research Programs.