Marlene Wiart received her Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from the Claude Bernard University (Lyon, France) in 2000. She worked from 2001 to 2002 at the Center for Pharmaceutical and Molecular Imaging (CPMI), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), as a post-doc. Since 2002, she has been working in Creatis (UMR CNRS 5220, U630 Inserm) as a full time researcher. Her research interests include quantification of tissue microcirculation and evaluation of inflammation using iron oxide nanoparticles with MRI, to study stroke in particular.