Two NIH Inventors Named NAI Fellows

NIH scientists Dr. Peter Basser and Dr. Carlos Zarate, Jr.  have been selected as 2024 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows.

Basser is senior investigator in the Section on Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He is 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.”

Zarate is senior investigator and chief of the Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch and section on neurobiology and treatment of mood disorders at the National Institute of Mental Health. Zarate has had a prolific career researching the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, most recently licensing an invention that led to the development of the first FDA-approved drug for treatment-resistant depression.

The NAI is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with over 4,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 250 institutions.

The 2024 Fellows hail from 135 research universities, governmental and nonprofit research institutions worldwide and their work spans across various disciplines. They are not only phenomenal researchers holding prestigious honors and distinctions but are also incredible inventors who collectively hold more than 5,000 issued U.S. patents. Their innovations are making significant tangible societal and economic impacts today and will well into the future.

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