Anna Wang Roe

Anna Wang Roe (born 1961, last name: Roe, middle name: Wang) is an American neuroscientist, She has held professorships at Yale University, Vanderbilt University, Oregon Health & Sciences University, and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. She is currently Director of Translational Neuroscience at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at New York University in New York, USA. She is known for her studies on the functional organization and connectivity of cerebral cortex and for bringing interdisciplinary approaches to address questions in systems neuroscience.

Career Anna Wang Roe obtained her B.A. from Harvard University in 1984, majoring in biochemistry with special field of interest in neurobiology. After obtaining her Ph.D., she went on to undertake post-doctoral training with Dr. Torsten Wiesel and Dr. Daniel Y Ts'o at Baylor College of Medicine (1991–1992) and continued with Dr. Daniel Y Ts'o at Baylor College of Medicine (1993–1995) where she studied the functional organization of the primary and secondary visual cortical areas of the primate brain using Intrinsic Signal Optical Imaging.

Roe is active in scientific societies such as Society for Neuroscience, SPIE Photonics West, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), and Roe serves as the associate editor of several scientific journals. She has been a standing member of NIH study sections and conducts grant reviews for funding agencies in the US, Europe, Israel, and China. She also holds advisory roles for university research and faculty development. 2014: Member, Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education 1998–2003: David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship 1997–1999: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 1996–1999: Whitehall Foundation Research Fellowship 1991-1994: NIH NRSA Post-doctoral Fellowship, Rockefeller University and Baylor College of Medicine 1993: Winter Conference on Brain Research Fellowship Award, Whistler, Canada 1989-1991: Whittaker Health Sciences Fellowship, MIT 1986-1898: NIGMS Graduate Traineeship, MIT

Selected publications

Wang JB*, Liu Y, Ma Y, Lin L, Berman AJL, Bollmann S, Polimeni JR**, Roe AW** (2025) In vivo 7-tesla MRI of non-human primate intracortical microvascular architecture. Neuron, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.05.028. [IF 14.7] Ping A*, Wang JB, García-Cabezas MA, Li LH, Zhang JM, Zhu JM**, Gothard K**, Roe AW** (2025) Brainwide mesoscale functional networks revealed by infrared neural stimulation of the amygdala. National Science Review, 12(4):nwae473. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae473. [IF 16.3] Tian F*, Liu Y*, Chen M, Schriver KE, Roe AW** (2025) Selective activation of mesoscale functional circuits via multi-channel infrared stimulation of cortical columns in ultra-high field 7T MRI. Cell Rep Meth 5:100961, doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100961 [IF 4.3] Qian M*, Wang JB*, Gao Y, Zhou DF, Liu Y, Zhang XT**, Hu JM**, Roe AW** (2025) Multiple foveolar representations in awake macaque monkey imaged in 7T MRI. Nature Neurosci. DOI: 10.1038/S41593-024-01810-4. [IF 21.2] Wang JB*, Du X, Yao S, Li L, Tanigawa H, Zhang X, Roe AW** (2024) Mesoscale organization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways in macaque monkey revealed by 7T fMRI. Progress in Neurobiol. 1:234:102584. doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2024.102584. [IF 6.7] Zhou T, Kawasaki K, Suzuki T, Hasegawa I, Roe AW*, Tanigawa H* (2023) Mapping information flow between the inferotemporal and prefrontal cortices via neural oscillations during memory retrieval and maintenance. Cell Reports 42(10):113169. doi.org/101016/j.celrep.2023.113169. [IF 8.8] Pan L*, Ping A, Schriver KE, Roe AW**, Zhu JM**, Xu KD** (2023) Infrared neural stimulation in human cerebral cortex. Brain Stimulation, S1935-861X(23)01680-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2023.01.1678. [IF 8.955] Hu JM, Roe AW (2022) Functionally specific and sparse domain-based micro-networks in monkey V1 and V2. Curr Biol, 32(13):2797-2809.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.09 [IF 10.9] Zaraza D*, Chernov MM*, Yang Y, Rogers JA, Roe AW**, Friedman RM** (2022) Head mounted optical imaging and stimulation system for use in behaving primates. Cell Reports Methods, 2(12):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crmeth.2022.100351. [IF 9.995] Zhu L, Wang M, Fu P, Liu Y, Zhang H, Roe AW**, Xi W** (2022) Precision 1070 nm Ultrafast Laser-Induced Photothrombosis of Depth-Targeted Vessels In Vivo. Small Methods. 7(1):e2200917. doi: 10.1002/smtd.202200917. [IF 15.637] Zhang H*, Fu P*, Liu Y*, Zheng Z, Zhu L, Wang M, Abdellah M, He M, Qian J, Roe AW**, Xi W** (2022) Large-depth three-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging of cortical microvasculature on nonhuman primates with bright AIE probe In vivo. Biomaterials. 289:121809. doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2022.121809. [IF 15.304] Shi S*, Xu AG*, Rui YY, Romanski LM, Gothard KM, Roe AW** (2021) Infrared neural stimulation with 7T fMRI: a rapid in vivo method for mapping cortical connections of primate amygdala. Neuroimage, 231, 117818. 2021 Feb 3;117818. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117818. [PMID 33548458] [IF 7.12] Zhang X*,**, Zhang J*, Gao Y*, Qian M*, Qu S, Quan Z, Yu M, Chen X, Wang Y**, Pan G, Adriany G, Roe AW (2021) A 16-channel Dense Array for in vivo Animal Cortical MRI/fMRI on 7T Human Scanners. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 68(5):1611-1618. DOI:10.1109/TBME.2020.3027296. [PMID 32991277] [IF 4.538] Hu J*, Song XM, Wang Q, Roe AW** (2020) Curvature domains in V4 of Macaque Monkey. Elife. 9:e57261. doi: 10.7554/eLife.57261. [PMC7707819][PMID 33211004] [IF 7.08] Friedman RM*, Chehade NG, Roe AW, Gharbawie OA** (2020) Optical imaging reveals functional domains in primate sensorimotor cortex. Neuroimage, 221:117188. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117188. [PMID 32711067][PMC 7841645] [IF 6.076] Hu J*, Qian M, Tanigawa H, Song XM, Roe AW** (2020) Focal electrical stimulation of cortical functional networks. Cerebral Cortex. bhaa136, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa136. [PMID 32483588] [IF 4.98] Friedman RM*, Morone K, Gharbawie OA, Roe AW** (2020) Mapping mesoscale cortical connectivity in monkey sensorimotor cortex with optical imaging and microstimulation. J Comp Neurol. 528(17):3095-3107. doi:10.1002/cne.24918. [PMC 7541397][PMID 32255200] Cover figure. [IF 3.215] Ashaber M, Zalányi L, Pálfi E, Stuber I, Kovács T, Roe AW, Friedman RM, Négyessy L (2020) Synaptic organization of cortico-cortical communication in primates. Eur J Neurosci, 52(9):4037-4056. doi: 10.1111/ejn.14905. [PMID 32654301] [IF 3.386] Mekbib DW*, Han JW, Zhang L, Fang S, Jiang HJ, Zhu JM, Roe AW**, Xu DR** (2020) Virtual reality therapy for upper limb rehabilitation in patients with stroke: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Brain Injury. 34(4):456-465. [PMID 32064964] [IF 1.837] Li M*, Song XM*, Xu T, Hu D*, Roe AW**, Li C-Y** (2019) Subdomains within orientation columns of primary visual cortex Science Advances, 5(6):eaaw0807. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw0807. [**co-first author, *co-corresponding] [PMC: 6551190][PMID 31183405] [IF 13.117] Chen LM, Friedman RM, Roe AW (2003) Optical imaging of a tactile illusion in Area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex. Science 302:881-885. [PMID 14500850]