MIPS Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford

Graduate Students

Laura Sarah Sasportas

Laura Sarah Sasportas

PhD student Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab (MMIL)

Education:

Ph.D, Bioengineering, Stanford University, ongoing.
M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland, 2007
M.Sc. level Engineering degree ("Diplome d'Ingenieur"), General Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris, Paris, France, 2007

Awards:

2009 Graduate Student Fellowship from the Society for Nuclear Medicine (SNM)

2009 New Entrant Stipend Award for the 17th ISMRM Scientific Meeting

2009 nominated to the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Science Program for Excellence in Science

2008 Graduate Fellowship from Weiland Fund, Stanford University

2008 Fulbright Science and Technology Graduate Scholarship Award for PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University

2007 Student Travel Award - Joint Molecular Imaging Conference

2006 Travel grant from Huber-Kudlich foundation at ETH Zurich for M.S. thesis-related travel to the U.S

2006 TIME (Top Industrial Managers for Europe) Double-degree Program Fellowship for M.S. at ETH Zurich

2005 Regional Scholarship from Region Alsace for promoting International Studies

2005 Mobility Scholarship from Ecole Centrale Paris for studying at ETH Zurich


Contact Information:

James Clark Center E150
Department of Radiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
318 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA-94305

Phone: 650-724-3619
E-mail: lss@stanford.edu


Research Interests:

Molecular Imaging of Stem Cell based therapy for Cancer
Stem Cell Engineering
Imaging for Early Detection of Cancer and Therapy


Recent Publications:

  1. Sasportas LS, Kasmieh R, Wakimoto H, Hingtgen S, van de Water JA, Mohapatra G, Figueiredo JL, Martuza RL, Weissleder R, Shah K. Assessment of therapeutic efficacy and fate of engineered human mesenchymal stem cells for cancer therapy. ePub - PMID: 19264968. P Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009.

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