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Peter Basser, Ph.D. is a Senior Investigator in the Section on Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences at the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Basser is widely known for the invention, development, and clinical implementation of MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), diffusion tensor "streamline tractography," and other quantitative MRI methods for performing in vivo MRI histology or "microstructure imaging". Dr. Basser’s work has transformed how neurological disorders and diseases are diagnosed and treated, and how brain architecture, organization, structure, and anatomical “connectivity” are studied and visualized. Dr. Basser was recently an NIH Distinguished Lecturer for the 15th Annual Philip S. Chen, Jr., Ph.D., Distinguished Lecture on Innovation and Technology Transfer hosted by the NIH. His talk was on using water migration to probe brain structure and architecture. If you are interested in working with Dr. Basser you can find the technologies he has available for licensing or collaboration on the NIH Technology Transfer website. Dr. Basser was inducted as a Fellow of NAI in 2024.