Swati Rane Levendovszky
Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) since 2017. I am the Director of the Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center (DISC), a University cost-center providing cutting-edge technical MR imaging services to researchers in and around the University. I am a member of the Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC). The primary focus of my research lab is the development of clinically feasible, targeted imaging, and end-to-end analyses pipeline for functional and anatomical imaging to improve the diagnostic capabilities of MRI. Specifically, I develop novel perfusion imaging approaches to better understand cerebrovascular pathology for all major MRI platforms.
My research is currently funded by the the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Philips, Radiological Society of North America. Past funding includes the Michael J Fox Foundation and W. Garfield Weston Brain Institute, and Alzheimer's Association. I have received several competitive awards such as the Elliot Newmann Society Scholar Award and the Charleston Conferences on Alzheimer's Disease Young Investigator Award.
Office: AA038
Phone: 206 685 3538
Email: srleven at uw dot edu
Recent talks:
Invited talk at International Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy Conference titled, “Leveraging contrast MRI to investigate the glymphatic system in human brain”, Munich, 10/15/2024
Invited panel discussion by International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Perfusion Study Group titled, “Intravenous Gadolinium-based Imaging of Blood/CSF Exchange Transport”, online, 10/29/2024
Invited talk at Sleep, the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society titled “Unlocking the Brain’s Cleansing System: Glymphatic Imaging with MRI”, Houston, 6/5/2024.
Invited talk for the Biology of Neurodegeneration (BOND) Seminar titled, “Multi-modal imaging perspectives on small vessel disease and related biological processes”, Oregon Health and Science University, 4/26/2024
Invited talk for the Movement Disorders Journal Club titled, “Unravelling Parkinson’s disease through the MRE lens”, Oregon Health and Science University, 4/25/2024
Invited talk for the Wasatch Winter Neurovascular Imaging Meeting titled, “Multi-modal imaging of small vessel disease”, University of Utah, 3/9/2024
Investigating the use of multi-echo, multi-delay ASL in neurodegenerative diseases, DEBBIE COnsortium Meeting, October 4, 2023
Comparing human and animal physiology in the context of neurofluids, Invited tutorial presentation, ISMRM workshop on Neurofluids: Anatomy, Physiology, and Imaging. Sept. 21-24, 2022, Rome, Italy.
Can in vivo MRI predict postmortem pathology? Improving the diagnostic capability of neuroimaging, Keynote Address, NINDS workshop: Future of In vivo Neuropathological Diagnosis through Postmortem Analyses Workshop, July 13 -14, 2022
A High-tech skull cap to soothe sleepless nights, All Science. No Fiction, OPB Science Series, featuring our work in their opening episode: Youtube link 6/1/2022
Imaging the glymphatic system with dynamic contrast MRI, ISMRM, Perfusion MRI for Mapping Neurofluid Circulation and Exchange, ISMRM 2022, 5/11/2022
Understanding degenerative disease mechanisms in the white matter using advanced MRI, Albert White Matter Research Institute, 3/29/2022
Imaging cerebrovascular pathology in degenerative diseases, SLU breakfast Club Seminar, 1/20/2022
Recent description of our research in sleep enhancement on KUOW 12/3/2021
Pain and Bain: IADR General Session: Neuroimaging in Dentistry 7/16/2021
AD@UW: Works in progress at the UW ADRC Imaging and Biomarker Core. 4/23/2021
What Can you Gain from GAAIN: Overview and Case Specific Applications, 12/17/2020