Our Team

Dr. Keith St. Lawrence is the Director of PET/MRI program at St. Joseph's Health Care London and a Scientist at Lawson Research Institute. Dr. St. Lawrence is also a Professor in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. Dr. St Lawrence received his PhD in Medical Biophysics from Western University. He then conducted his post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Dr. St Lawrence has been the recipient of a Heart and Stroke Foundation Mid-Career Investigator Award, a SickKids Foundation New Investigator Award, and scholarships from the Canadian Institutes of Health and the National Science and Engineering Research Council. His work is focused on developing functional imaging techniques for studying brain pathologies.

Dr. Daniel Milej is a Scientist at the Lawson Research Institute and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at Western University. Dr. Milej received his MSc in optoelectronics from the Military University of Technology, Warsaw, and PhD from the Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences. He then started working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Medical Biophysics at Western University. During this time, he received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. His work is focused on developing inexpensive and portable optical technologies that can provide a rapid bedside assessment of brain function and health.

Dr Mamadou Diop is a Scientist at the Lawson Research Institute. He is also the Medical Biophysics Undergraduate Chair and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Diop received a BSc in Physics from Dakar University (Senegal) and a PhD in Physics from Laval University (Quebec). He then completed a two-year postdoctoral training at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, before joining Lawson as a postdoctoral fellow. He also leads the Translational Biophotonics Lab and his work is focused on focuses on the development of optical techniques for noninvasive point-of-care neuromonitoring and early detection of sepsis.