Darrell B. Tata

Dr. Darrell B. Tata is a lead program director at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the Department of Radiation Oncology, the Mayo Clinic in the Department of Urology, and the University of Vermont in the Department of Pharmacology.

Before joining the NCI, Dr. Tata worked as a Senior Biomedical Engineering Staff Fellow for nine years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health. In this role, he served as a senior investigator of translational quantitative analyses in cancer detection via several imaging technologies, including laser-based fluorescence, Raman, infrared spectroscopies, ultrasound, and X-ray imaging. Dr. Tata was responsible for performing scientific evaluation and analyses of non-invasive technologies utilized in aggressive cancer detection and therapy, and he actively informed upper management in the decision-making process to approve and market new technologies.

Dr. Tata has been the Program Director at the NCI's Cancer Imaging Program for the past ten years, where he has managed the Quantitative Imaging Network research grant portfolio. In this role, he oversees a team of dedicated scientists and researchers working on the development and validation of various imaging software tools for cancer diagnosis, and predictive outcomes of therapeutic interventions.