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Benjamin Ellingson receives $665,000 Idea award to improve brain tumor imaging

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Benjamin Ellingson, a professor of radiology and psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has received a Defense Department Idea grant to develop a new non-invasive imaging method for quantifying metabolic activity within brain tumors. 

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