Events & Calendars Biology Monday Seminar: "Network Neuroscience Approaches to Language"

Nadia M. Biassou '88, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Board-certified physician and staff clinician in the Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department

Amherst alum and 2019-21 Amherst Wade Fellow Dr. Nadia Biassou '88 is a renowned diagnostic neuroradiologist and is currently a senior research physician in the Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. In addition to her NIH responsibilities, Biassou has taught and mentored numerous physicians-in-training from George Washington University Hospital, where she serves as clinical professor of radiology, and Georgetown University Hospital, where she is a member of the core faculty in the division of neuroradiology. She also lectures around the world.

In addition to her work as a physician, Biassou is a trained linguist and obtained her master’s and doctorate in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. She specialized in the relationship between brain and language and studied under the tutelage of renowned neuroscientists Professors Jean-Luc Nespoulous of the University of Toulouse (France); Loraine Obler of the Boston University School of Medicine; and Murray Grossman and Mark Liberman of the University of Pennsylvania. Biassou went on to study medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, graduating with distinction in internal medicine and neurology. She is one of less than a handful of cognitive neuroscientists worldwide to have achieved training in both medicine and linguistics. She is the only African American woman in the nation with combined formalized training in medicine, biomedical imaging and linguistics and cognitive science. Biassou collaborates in numerous cutting-edge interdisciplinary research with other federal agencies, universities and industries. She was appointed as a senior fellow to the Linguistics Data Consortium at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018.

Persons from the Amherst College community who wish to attend should please register by sending an email request to the biology chair, Joe Trapani.