Dr. Pérez-Torres obtained his B.S. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Biology and Biotechnology in 2007 and his PhD degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine in 2012. As a postdoctoral researcher in Washington University in Saint Louis, Dr. Pérez-Torres helped validate and characterize a mouse model of Radiation Necrosis, a late-onset side-effect of radiation therapy that mimics a tumor on standard anatomical MRI. As a faculty at Purdue University, Dr. Pérez-Torres continues to focus on how radiation treatment affects the normal brain to develop better diagnostic MRI tools (is it tumor or just a treatment side effect?) and to potentially improve radiation therapy of brain tumors.