Piotr Kozlowski

Dr. Piotr Kozlowski is a professor in the Departments of Radiology and Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the director of the UBC MRI Research Centre. He is also a principal investigator at ICORD, an associate member of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UBC and a research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. Dr. Kozlowski obtained his Master of Science at the Jagiellonian University and his PhD at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Poland.

Dr. Kozlowski’s research uses MRI-based techniques to study spinal cord injury. He has worked on the development of a non-invasive technique for monitoring changes in myelin in the spinal cord following injury. Myelin in the brain and spinal cord helps neurons function more efficiently by wrapping around them, but it also inhibits healing when the neurons are injured. Studying how myelin changes after an injury may shed light on how to improve healing. Dr. Kozlowski also applies MRI to his prostate cancer research. He pioneered a concept of multi-parametric MRI for prostate cancer diagnosis, which became a clinical standard for prostate cancer detection. More recently, he developed a new MRI technique, called Luminal Water Imaging (LWI), which showed even better performance than the current standard of mp-MRI with PIRADS 2.1. He is currently working on a clinical implementation of the LWI technique combined with a novel reporting standard. His research has been funded by CIHR, NSERC and Mitacs.