Richard Castillo, PhD
Website Developer, Data Sharing & Technical Support
Founder and Principal Investigator
Deformable Image Registration Laboratory
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Castillo founded the Deformable Image Registration Laboratory as part of his PhD work to validate the use of DIR-based lung function imaging derived from CT. His current research interests include quantitative performance evaluation of deformable image registration, and quantitative function & morphometric image analysis.
Dr. Castillo completed his MS (2007) and PhD degrees (2011) in the Department of Imaging Physics at MD Anderson Cancer Center through the UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and received his initial certification by the American Board of Radiology in 2016.
Dr. Castillo was previously awarded the UT GSBS Aaron Blanchard Award in Medical Physics, an NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Award (NIH LRP), as well as an NIH Research Scientist Development Award (K-01). He is co-investigator on an active NIH/NCI R01 (R01CA200817, PI: Vinogradskiy) evaluating safety and clinical efficacy of functional avoidance radiotherapy based on CT ventilation imaging, and principal investigator on a Winship Invest$ Pilot Grant investigating novel imaging technologies for cardiothoracic toxicity evaluation in radiotherapy. Dr. Castillo is also principal investigator (MPI) on a newly award NIH/NCI Academic Industrial Partnership Grant (R01CA236857).