Daniel Marcus

Chief Scientific Office
Flywheel (formerly Radiologics)

Professor of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine

Dan Marcus is the Chief Scientific Officer of Flywheel and a Professor ofRadiology at Washington University, where he is Director of the Computational Imaging Laboratory.He is the author of over 100 publications on topics ranging from scientific databases to automated brain network analysis and tumor segmentation.Dan has led the development of a number of high impact informatics and computational platforms in support of biomedical imaging applications across many disease areas. His work includes creation and ongoing direction of the open sourceXNAT platform, the Human Connectome Project Database, and the National Cancer Institute’sIntegrative Imaging Informatics for Cancer Research (I3CR) program.Dr. Marcus was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Radiologics, Inc., which developed cloud-scale imaging informatics services for clinical trials and AI-powered patient diagnostics. Radiologics was acquired by Flywheel in 2021.He is a Co-Founder of Sora Neuroscience.Dan continues to provide leadership and technical insights across a broad swath of biomedical research. He is the director of Flywheel’s clinical division and federated data network. His passions include automated tumor quantification, brain health characterization, and database design for complex data. When not doing science, Dan can typically be found traveling to the mountains with his family, watching tennis or a ballgame, or chasing his dog down the damn street.

 

Key publications

  • Glasser MF, Smith SM, Marcus DS, Andersson JL, Auerbach EJ, Behrens TE,Coalson TS, Harms MP, Jenkinson M, Moeller S, Robinson EC, Sotiropoulos SN, Xu J, Yacoub E, Ugurbil K, Van Essen DC. The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Aug 26;19(9):1175-87. doi: 10.1038/nn.4361. Review. PubMed PMID: 27571196.

  • Hodge MR, Horton W, Brown T, Herrick R, Olsen T, Hileman ME, McKay M, Archie KA, Cler E, Harms MP, Burgess GC, Glasser MF, Elam JS, Curtiss SW, Barch DM, Oostenveld R, Larson-Prior LJ, Ugurbil K, Van Essen DC, Marcus DS. Connectome DB-Sharing human brain connectivity data. Neuroimage.2016Jan 1;124(Pt B): 1102-7. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.046 PMCID: PMC4626437

  • Marcus DS,Harms MP, Snyder AZ, Jenkinson M, Wilson JA, Glasser MF, Barch DM, Archie KA,Burgess GC, Ramaratnam M, Hodge M, Horton W, Herrick R, Olsen T, McKay M, House M, Hileman M, Reid R, Harwell J, Coalson T, Schindler J, Elam J, Curtiss SW, Van Essen DC - for the WU-Minn HCP Consortium. Human Connectome Project Informatics: quality control, database services, and data visualization. NeuroImage. 2013Oct 15; 80:202-19. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.077 PMCID: PMC3845379