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Peter Olcott Received 2009 IEEE NSS/MIC Student Paper Award


November 15, 2009
Peter Olcott, a graduate student in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL), received Second Place from the Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference for his paper, "Cross-strip capacitive multiplexing and electro-optical coupling for silicon photomultiplier arrays for PET detectors".

Congratulations, Peter!

Dr. Paulmurugan Promoted to Assistant Professor


November 12, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Ramasamy Paulmurugan for his promotion to Assistant Professor.

Congratulations, Professor Paulmurugan!

Dr. Levin Promoted to Full Professor


November 10, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Craig Levin for his promotion to Full Professor.

Congratulations, Professor Levin!

2009 Medical Imaging Conference Trainee Award Recipients


November 6, 2008
Yi Gu, Peter Olcott, Hao Peng, Virgina Spanoudaki, and Arne Vandenbrouke, members of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, are all recipients of the 2009 Trainee Award to attend the 2009 Medical Imaging Conference in Orlando FL, October 25-31.

Congratulations, Yi, Peter, Hao, Virgina and Arne!

MIPS Research Featured in Nature News & Views


October 27, 2009
Work from the Center for Cancer Nanotehnology Excellence (CCNE) between the Wang lab and Gambhir lab on an ultrasensitive, matrix-indpendent, high-throughput mangento-nano sensor technology for proteomics has been published in Nature Medicine. This work was covered in detail by Nature in the News and Views.

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Peter Olcott Received Bio-X Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship in Human Health


October 16, 2009
Congratulations to Peter Olcott of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory who received the Bio-X Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship in Human Health. This award is one of the greatest honors Stanford gives to a doctoral student pursuing interdisciplinary research.

Congratulations, Peter!

MIPS Research Discussed in PNAS Journal Highlights


A new article entitled "A strategy for blood biomarker amplification and localization using ultrasound," by Aloma L. D'Souza, Jeffrey R. Tseng, Kim Butts Pauly, Samira Guccione, Jarrett Rosenberg, Sanjiv S. Gambhir, and Gary M. Glazer published in PNAS is discussed in the Journal highlights.

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Tiger Ren Paper Featured on MDLinx.com


September 24, 2009
The just-published Journal of Nuclear Medicine paper "Melanin-Targeted Preclinial PET Imaging of Melanoma Metastasis" by Tiger Ren, member of the Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (CMICL), was featured on MDLinx.com.

Congratulations, Tiger!

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Paper on iPS Cells Receives Media Coverage


A recent study published by Ning Sun, PhD working in the laboratory of Joseph Wu and Michael Longaker on derivation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from fat received significant media attention in NatureNews, Scientific American, CNN, Reuters, National Geographics, Bloomberg, LA Times, NBC Bay Area, UK Telegraph and other outlets.

Levin, Foudray and Habte Authors of Top Ten Cited Papers in Physica Medica


August 11, 2009
Congratulations to the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory authors of "Impact of high energy resolution detectors on the performance of a PET system dedicated to breast cancer imaging" which was one of the Top 10 cited papers (2006-2008) published in Physica Medica.

Congratulations, Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory!

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Guillem Pratx Paper Selected as Featured Article by Institute of Physics


August 4, 2009
The just-published Physics in Medicine and Biology paper "Bayesian reconstruction of photon interaction sequences for high-resolution PET detectors" by Guillem Pratx, member of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL), has been selected as a Featured Article by the editors of the Institute of Physics Journals. Featured Articles are chosen for their novelty, high level of interest and potential impact on future research.

Congratulations, Guillem!

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Avnesh S Thakor Received ACSBI Award From UICC


July 21, 2009
Avnesh S Thakor, a Visiting Scholar in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has received an ACSBI Award from the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) for his research on Raman spectroscopy using SERS nanoparticles.

Congratulations, Avnesh!

Virginia Spanoudaki Received AXA Research Fund Fellowship


July 17, 2009
Virginia Spanoudaki, a postdoctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Lab has been awarded an AXA Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship for her ground-breaking work on new concepts to advance time-of-flight positron emission tomography.

Congratulations Virginia!

John Ronald Received CIHR Fellowship


July 7, 2009
John Ronald, a post doctoral fellow in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has received a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship for his proposal, "Multimodality Cell Trafficking Imaging Using Optical Bioluminescent Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)".

The award is a 3-year fellowship that provides support for highly qualified candidates at the post-PhD or post-health professional degree stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad.

Congratulations, John!

Paper on a Photoactivable Bioluminescent Probe Featured in Analytica-World & Bionity


June 25, 2009
Work published in the Chemical Communication on the development of a photoactivable bioluminescent probe for imaging luciferase activity in live animals is featured in Analytica-World and Bionity. This work is a collaborative effort between the Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory at Stanford and Dr. Bengang Xing's lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Laura Sasportas Awarded SNM Graduate Student Fellowship


Laura Sasportas of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab has been awarded a Graduate Student Fellowship by the Society of Nuclear Medicine for her proposal, "In vivo Molecular Imaging of Circulating Tumor Cells and Early Invasion in a Human Cancer-Stem Cell Based Model of Breast Tumor".

The SNM Student Fellowships are designed to stimulate students' interest in molecular imaging/nuclear medicine by supporting their full-time participation in clinical and basic research activities for three months (or less).

Congratulations, Laura!

2009 SNM Image of the Year


June 17, 2008
Congratulations to Drs. Andrei Iagaru, Erik Mittra and Michael Goris who have been awarded the 2009 Society of Nuclear Medicine Image of the Year. The image is actually two sets of before-and-after PET scans of two patients that examines the effectiveness of two radioimmunotherapy agents in treating non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). One patient was treated with Iodine-131 tositumomab, the other, Yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan.

"This image is really remarkable because it shows two positive benefits of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine at the same time," said Henry N. Wagner Jr.

Congratulations, Drs. Iagaru, Mittra and Goris!

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Keren Ziv Received LSRF Fellowship


June 10, 2009
Congratulations to Keren Ziv, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, who has been awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellowship for her proposal "Non-Invasive and Real-Time Monitoring of Stem Cells in Cancer and Myocardial Infarction".

The LSRF recognize that discoveries and the application of innovations in biology for the public's good will depend upon the training and support of the highest quality young scientists in the very best research environments. The LSRF awards fellowships across the spectrum of the life sciences.

Congratulations, Keren!

The Peter Michael Foundation Appoints Dr. Raj Kothapalli to Hamalainen Pelican Postdoctoral Fellowship


June 9, 2009
The Peter Michael Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of the Hamalainen Pelican Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. The Hamalainen Pelican Fellow, Dr. Raj Kothapalli, will be working in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab.

Congratulations, Raj!

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2009 SNM Travel Award Recipients


June 8, 2009
Qizhen Cao, Gang Niu and Jin Xie, post doctoral fellows from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, along with Peter Olcott and Guillem Pratx, graduate students from the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Lab, have each received a Travel Award to attend the 56th Society of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting in Toronto, Canada from June 13 to June 17.

Congratulations, Qizhen, Gang, Jin, Peter and Guillem!

Molecular Imaging Cover


June 5, 2009
A review from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory is featured on the cover of Molecular Imaging. Entitled, "Dual-Modality Probes for In Vivo Molecular Imaging", it discusses the advantages and challenges in developing dual-modality imaging probes and summarizes the current state-of-the-art systems with respects to their unique design strategies and applications.

Jeremy Pearl Awarded Second Year HHMI Fellowship


June 1, 2009
Jeremy Pearl, of the Cardiovascular Gene and Cell Therapy group, was awarded a second year fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. Jeremy will be working along with Dr. Mark Davis in developing novel methods for inducing immunotolerance to human embryonic stem cells.

Congratulations, Jeremy!

Dr. Willmann Received Walter Friedrich Award


May 26, 2009
At the 90th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Radiology in Berlin Dr. Juergen K. Willmann was awarded the Walter Friedrich Award for outstanding research in the field of Radiology. This prize is awarded once per year in memoriam of Walter Friedrich, a 1914 German Nobel laureate for the most innovative research in Radiology within the German Society of Radiology.

Congratulations, Dr. Willmann!

Dr. Andrei Iagaru Received the Alavi-Mandell Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine


May 18, 2009
Dr. Andrei Iagaru received the Alavi-Mandell Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his paper published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, "90Y-Ibritumomab Therapy in Refractory Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Observations from 111In-Ibritumomab Pretreatment Imaging". The award will be presented at the SNM Annual Meeting in Toronto.

Congratulations, Dr. Iagaru!

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Natesh Parashurama Received ISCT Young Investigator Award


May 11, 2009
Natesh Parashurama, a postdoctoral fellow in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, received a Young Investigator Award at the the International Society for Cellular Therapy 2009 Annual Meeting for his presentation "Stably Expressed Multimodality Fusion Reporter Genes For Tracking Mesenchymal Stem Cell Status in Hearts of Living Subjects".

Congratulations, Natesh!

Zheng Miao Receives First Prize in Basic Science from Society of Nuclear Medicine


May 1, 2009
Dr. Zheng Miao, was awarded the First Prize in Basic Science for his abstract titled "A Protein Scaffold Based Molecule for EGFR PET Imaging" from the Society of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting which will be hold in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on June 14-17, 2009.

Congratulations, Dr. Miao!

Zhen Cheng Received Young Investigator Award by the Melanoma Research Alliance


April 30, 2009
Congratulations to Zhen Cheng who received Young Investigator Award by the Melanoma Research Alliance for his research "18F Labeled Benzamides for Pre-clinical PET Imaging of Melanoma Metastases".

Congratulations, Dr. Cheng!

Amelie Lutz Received the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research Scholar Award


April 28, 2009
Amelie Lutz, a Research Scientist in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, received the Marsha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research Scholar Award for her project "Early detection of ovarian cancer using targeted microbubble-enhanced ultrasound". The award is a career development award funding projects in ovarian cancer research, especially projects with translational potential over 1 year.

Congratulations, Dr. Lutz!

Dr. Shreyas Vasanawala Received the Caffey Award From Society for Pediatric Radiology


April 27, 2009
Shreyas Vasanawala and colleagues Marcus Alley, Richard Barth, Brian Hargreaves, John Pauly, Michael Lustig, received the Caffey Award for Outstanding Basic Science Paper at the Society for Pediatric Radiology Meeting in Carlsbad, California for their work on "Faster Pediatric MRI via compressed sensing".

Congratulations Dr. Vasanawala!

Journal of Nuclear Medicine's 2008 Best Basic Science Paper


April 20, 2009
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine paper from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) titled “PET/MRI dual-modality tumor imaging using arginine-glycine-aspartic (RGD)-conjugated radiolabeled iron oxide nanoparticles” was selected as one of the three best basic science papers for 2008. The award will be presented at the 56th SNM Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.

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Andrew Lee Received Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship


April 17, 2009
Andrew Lee, of the Cardiovascular Gene and Cell Therapy group, was awarded a fellowship to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research. Andrew will be working with Dr. Michael Longaker in developing novel methods of reprogramming induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Congratulations, Andrew!

Kazim Narsinh Received Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship


April 13, 2009
Kazim Narsinh, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship. HHMI Research Fellowships are awarded to talented medical students from across the country in support of their careers as promising translational researchers.

Congratulations, Kazim!

MIPS Research Featured in Science


April 7, 2009
Work on Raman Molecular Imaging and Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab is covered in the journal Science in the March 6th issue in a section entitled Life Science Technologies.

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Keren Ziv Received HFSP Fellowship


April 1, 2009
Keren Ziv, a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab has been awarded a Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship (HFSP) (Declined). The HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms. Long-term Fellowships provide young scientists with up to three years of postdoctoral research training in an outstanding laboratory in another country.

Congratulations, Keren!

Dr. Joseph Wu Received 2009 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award


March 31, 2009
Dr. Joseph Wu received the 2009 Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award at the American College of Cardiology meeting. This award is to recognize a young scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field of cardiovascular medicine and who has amassed an impressive body of scientific research in either the clinical or basic domain.

Congratulations, Dr. Wu!

MIPS Research Featured in Chemical Technology


March 24, 2009
Work published in the journal Lab on a Chip on microfluidic automation of phage display is featured in Chemical Technology. This work is a collaborative effort between between the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab at Stanford and Dr. H.T. Soh's lab at UC Santa Barbara.

MIPS Research Receives Lauterbur Award


March 18, 2009
Work on faster pediatric MRI, based on compressed sensing, was awarded the Lauterbur Award for most outstanding scientific paper on MRI at the annual meeting of the SCBT/MR in Miami. The authors of the work are Shreyas S. Vasanawala, Marcus T. Alley, John M. Pauly, Garry E. Gold, Robert J. Herfkens, and Michael Lustig.

Adam de la Zerda Received SPIE 2009 Best Poster Presentation Award


January 28, 2009
Adam de la Zerda, member of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, received the Best Poster Presentation Award at SPIE Photonics West 2009 for his poster on Enhanced Sensitivity Photoacoustic Imaging Agents.

Congratulation, Adam!

Research Featured in ScienceDaily


January 27, 2009
Research published in Disease Models and Mechanisms from the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory was featured in ScienceDaily. The research demonstrates how a sensitive imaging technique gives scientists the upper hand in seeking out bacteria in chronic infections.

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Dr. Willmann Receives 2009 Research Award of the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists


January 9, 2009
Dr. Willmann has been awarded the Phillip H. Meyers, M.D. Annual Research Grant from the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists for his research entitled, "Anti-Angiogenic Treatment Assessment in Abdominal and Pelvic Cancer Using Molecular Ultrasound: First Step Towards Clinical Translation".

Congratulations, Dr. Willmann!

MIPS Research on Early Cancer Detection Featured in WIRED Magazine


Advances in Early Cancer Detection from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Laboratory and the MIPS in conjunction with other labs and the Canary Foundation are covered in a new article in WIRED Magazine.

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Natesh Parashurama Receives Dean's Fellowship


December 18, 2008
Congratulations to Natesh Parashurama, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, for receiving a 2009-2010 Dean's Fellowship for his proposal entitled "Quantitative, multimodality molecular imaging of spatiotemporally regulated cardiac stem cell functions in vivo".

Congratulations, Natesh!

Dr. Willmann Received the 2008 RSNA Research Award


December 8, 2008
Dr. Willmann received the 2008 RSNA Research Award in the category "molecular imaging" for his scientific paper: "Non-Invasive Imaging of Gene Expression in Implanted Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Porcine Heart: A Further Step Towards Clinical Translation".

Congratulations, Dr. Willmann!

Shin Kamaya Receives 2008 RSNA Trainee Scholar Award


December 1, 2008
Shin Kamaya, BSE, a member of the Molecular Imaging of Musculoskeletal Illnesses (MIMI) and currently a third-year medical student at the University of Colorado-Denver, was awarded a 2008 Radiological Society of North America Research Trainee Scholar Award for his scientific paper entitled, "Manganese-Enhanced MRI (MEMRI) Functionally Highlights Injured Peripheral Nerves in Neuropathic Pain".

Congratulations, Shin!

Paper on Therapeutic T-Cells Receives Media Coverage


November 26, 2008
Research from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, in collaboration with UCLA and the City of Hope, covers the use of PET imaging technology to image T cells non-invasively and reports the first clinical case using a non-invasive imaging reporter gene/probe technology. The paper, published in Nature Clinical Practice Oncology and entitled "Noninvasive detection of therapeutic cytolytic T cells with 18F-FHBG PET in a patient with glioma", has received media coverage. (US News and World Report, Yahoo!News, BusinessWire, Science Centric, Palo Alto Online).

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Research Featured on Cover of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine


November 21, 2008
Drs. Andrei Iagaru, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, and Michael Goris co-authored an article that was featured on the cover of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. "90Y-Ibritumomab Therapy in Refractory Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Observations from 111In-Ibritumomab Pretreatment Imaging".

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Hen-Tzu Lin Awarded Helena Anna Henzl Gabor Young Women in Science Fund Travel Grant


November 19, 2008
SMIS Post Doctoral Fellow, Hen-Tzu Lin has been awarded a travel grant from the Helena Anna Henzl Gabor Young Women in Science Fund to attend the World Molecular Imaging Congress, at Montreal, Canada, on September 23-26, 2009.

Congratulations, Hen-Tzu!

Yi Gu recieved the Bio-X Program Travel Award to Attend 2008 IEEE MIC


November 18, 2008
Yi Gu, of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, received the Bio-X Program Travel Award to attend the 2008 Medical Imaging Conference in Dresden, Germany.

Congratulations, Yi!

2008 Medical Imaging Conference Trainee Grants Recipients


November 14, 2008
Yi Gu, Frances Lau, Guillem Pratx, Paul Reynolds, and Arne Vandenbrouke, members of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, received Trainee Grants to attend the 2008 Medical Imaging Conference in Dresden, Germany.

Congratulations, Yi, Frances, Guillem, Paul and Arne!

Juergen Willmann Received the Radiology 2008 Editor's Recognition Award with Distinction


November 10, 2008
Dr. Juergen Willmann has been awarded the Radiology 2008 Editor’s Recognition award with Distinction in recognition of outstanding service as a reviewer of scientific manuscripts submitted for publication in Radiology. Dr. Willmann was elected among a highly select group of reviewers and only 105 of approximately 1000 reviewers have been selected for this award this year.

Congratulations, Dr. Willmann!

Guillem Pratx Receives Top Student Presentation IEEE MIC 2008


November 4, 2008
Guillem Pratx, of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL) received the top student paper award at the 2008 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Dresden, Germany. The title of his paper was "Fast, Accurate and Shift-Varying Line Projections for Iterative Reconstruction using the GPU".

Congratulations, Guillem!

Paper on Quantum Dot Imaging Featured in ScienceWatch


November 3, 2008
The article entitled "Peptide-labeled near-infrared quantum dots for imaging tumor vasculature in living subjects" as published in the journal "NANO LETTERS" in April 2006, coming from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, in collaboration with the labs of Dr. Sam Gambhir (radiology), and Dr. Shan Wang (Materials Science and Engineering), received various media coverage and has been recently identified by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as the highest cited paper in the research area of "imaging tumor vasculature". The 1st author, Dr. Weibo Cai, is now an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch® website for November 2008 recognizes this article as one of the Fast Moving Front article at the following link: http://sciencewatch.com/dr/fmf/2008/08novfmf/08novfmfChen/.

Dr. Wu Awarded Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Junior Faculty Grant


October 21, 2008
Dr. Joseph Wu, MD, PhD was awarded the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Junior Faculty Grant. The Foundation has very broad interest in "advancing knowledge in the various fields of medical and health research" and is most interested in basic research with upstream potential for impacting disease.

Congratulations, Dr. Wu!

Dr. Gambhir Elected as Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies


October 15, 2008
Dr. Gambhir has been elected as member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Election to the IOM is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

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Adam de la Zerda Receives Bio-X Travel Award


September 30, 2008
Adam de la Zerda has received the Bio-X Travel Award which allowed him to present his work on Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging with Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes at the World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008.

Congratulations, Adam!

Dr. Wu Recipeint of NIH Director's New Innovator Award


September 22, 2008
Dr. Joseph Wu has been selected as one of the recipients for the 2008 NIH Director's New Innovator Award. This award provides a 5-year support for investigators to undertake bold and innovative directions in research.

Congratulations, Dr. Wu!

Adam de la Zerda and Min-kyung So both Received the Young Investigator Award in the World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008 in Nice, France


September 16, 2008
Adam de la Zerda, a graduate student and Min-kyung So, a post-doctoral fellow, both in the MIPS, have received the Young Investigator Award in the world's largest Molecular Imaging conference - World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008. They were selected from a group of over 300 young investigator candidates which included a competition with oral presentations.

Congratulations, Adam and Min!

Nano Letters Cover


September 11, 2008
Research from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab is featured on the cover of Nano Letters.The abstract is entitled, "Real-Time Intravital Imaging of RGD−Quantum Dot Binding to Luminal Endothelium in Mouse Tumor Neovasculature".

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Paper on Immunogenicity of hESCs Receives Media Coverage


August 28, 2008
A paper by Rutger Swijnenburg from the laboratory of Mark Davis (Immunology), Robert Robbins (Cardiovascular Institute), and Joseph Wu on the immunogenicity of human embryonic cells (Swijnenburg et al, PNAS 2008;105:35:12991-12996) has received considerable media coverage (KQED, ABC7, ScienceNews, Sacramento Bee, Scientific American, Philadelphia News, San Jose News).

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Paper on Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging Receives Media Coverage


August 22, 2008
A paper from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab in collaboration with the labs of Dr. H. Dai (Chemistry), Shawn Chen (Radiology), and Dr. Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Electrical Engineering) on photoacoustic molecular imaging has been published in Nature Nanotechnology. This work has received significant media coverage in radio broadcasts (KCBS Radio, KGO Radio, KQED Radio) and in the press (Washington Post, U.S. News, Forbes, MSN Health, Springfield News-Sun, Medical Health Articles, Stay Healthy News, Your Total Health, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Health, Dr. Koop).

This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute (ICMIC and CCNE).

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Mathematical Model for Cancer Screening Receives Media Coverage


August 22, 2008
A new article from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab published in PLOS Medicine entitled "Cancer Screening: A Mathematical Model Relating Secreted Blood Biomarker Levels to Tumor Sizes" receives coverage in the news media (MSN, ScienceNews.org, WashintonPost.com, Yahoo! News).

This work was supported by the Canary Foundation.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Cover


July 10, 2008
A review from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab is featured on the cover of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Entitled, "Molecular imaging in drug development", it discusses the applications of molecular imaging in drug development, and the challenges that need to be addressed to optimize its utility.

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Dr. Gambhir Serves as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine


July 9, 2008
Dr. Gambhir serves as guest editor for a new special issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reviewing multimodality molecular imaging of cancer. Over 10 articles covering all aspects of the latest developments in cancer imaging are included.

Peter Olcott Receives SNM Predoctoral Molecular Imaging Scholar Program Award


July 7, 2008
Peter Olcott, a Stanford Bioengineering graduate student, working in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory has been selected to receive a 2008 Predoctoral Molecular Imaging Scholar Program award funded for two years by the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his proposal entitled: "Optically coupled pulse width modulation PET detectors for combined whole body clinical PET/MR systems". For this award Peter will study, design, and develop novel technology that will enable whole body PET and MRI data to be acquired simultaneously.

Congratulations, Peter!

Zongjin Li Receives Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant


June 24, 2008
Zongjin Li, of the Cardiovascular Gene and Cell Therapy Lab, has been awarded the Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his proposal entitled "Molecular Imaging of Stem Cell Differentiation and Function".

Congratulations, Zongjin!

MIPS WMIC 2008 Student Travel Award Recipients


June 24, 2008
Congratulations to all the MIPS World Molecular Imaging Congress 2008 Travel Award Recipients:

Qizhen Cao Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship from TRDRP


June 12,2008
Dr. Qizhen Cao, a Post-Doctoral Fellow from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has received a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) to work on lung cancer imaging and therapy.

Congratulations, Dr. Cao!

Guillem Pratx Receives SNM Travel Award


June 6, 2008
Guillem Pratx, a member of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory been selected as a recipient of an SNM Travel Award to attend the 2008 SNM Annual Meeting in June in New Orleans, LA, where he will deliver two oral presentations for his accepted abstracts. The titles of his abstracts are: "Fast Maximum-Likelihood Image Reconstruction without a Line Search" and "Maximum a Posteriori event positioning in high-resolution PET CZT detectors".

Congratulations Guillem!

Dr. Gambhir Receives the Tesla Medal


June 4, 2008
Dr. Gambhir has been awarded the Tesla Medal from the United Kingdom Royal College of Radiologists in England for his work in Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Living Subjects.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

Adam de la Zerda Receives Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship


June 3, 2008
Adam de la Zerda, a graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has received a Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship. The fellowship is a 3-year fellowship that will fully support his research in the field of "Photoacoustic Molecular Imaging".

Congratulations, Adam!

MIPS Research Highlighted in EurekAlert!


May 27, 2008
Collaborative research on ultrasmall iron oxide nanoparticles between the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory and Brown University was published in J Am Chem Soc and highlighted in EurekAlert!, an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the Science Society.

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Yingbing Wang Receives Norman Blank Award


May 23, 2008
Yingbing Wang, a medical student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab has been awarded the Norman Blank Award from the Stanford School of Medicine and will do her Radiology Residency at Harvard.

Congratulations, Yingbing!

Hui Wang receives SNM Molecular Imaging Center of Excellence Award


May 22, 2008
Dr. Hui Wang, a postdoctoral fellow from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has won First Place Award in the Molecular Imaging Abstract track for her abstract titled “Trafficking the fate of mesenchymal stem cells in vivo” from the SNM’s Molecular Imaging Center of Excellence.

Congratulations, Hui!

Adam de la Zerda Receives DOD Pre-doctoral Traineeship Award


May 21, 2008
Adam de la Zerda, a graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab has been awarded a DOD Pre-doctoral Traineeship Award.

Congratulations, Adam!

Kai Chen receives 2008 SNM YPC Award


May 20, 2008
Dr. Kai Chen, a research associate from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, is awarded 3rd place Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Best Basic Science Award for the 2008 Annual Convention of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in New Orleans, LA.

Congratulations, Kai!

Zhaofei (Jeff) Liu receives 2008 Berson-Yalow Award


May 20, 2008
Zhaofei (Jeff) Liu, a visiting researcher from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has been awarded 2008 Society of Nuclear Medicine Berson-Yalow Award (1st place). The Berson-Yalow Award recognizes significant contributions to the advancement and promotion of nuclear medicine, specifically, the most significant contributions to basic or clinical radioassay. Mr. Liu is a PhD candidate at Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Fan Wang.

Congratulations, Zhaofei!

Zi-Bo Li receives 2008 SNM travel award


May 20, 2008
Dr. Zi-Bo Li, a former postdoctoral fellow from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has received a Travel Award to attend the 55th Society of Nuclear Medicine annual meeting in New Orleans, LA from June 14 to June 18.
He recently joined Siemens Medical Solutions.

Congratulations, Zibo!

RSNA R&E Foundation Grants Recipients


May 7, 2008
David Wang and Juergen Willmann, both of the MMIL have both been awarded grants from the RSNA Research & Education Foundation. David received a Research Resident Grant and Juergen received a Research Seed Grant.

Congratulations, David and Juergen!

Dr. Gambhir Inducted as Member of ASCI


April 27, 2008
Dr. Sam Gambhir is inducted as a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), an honor society for physician-scientists, at the societies 100th year anniversary.

Congratulation's Dr. Gambhir!

Dr. Wu Selected as Baxter Faculty Scholar


April 23, 2008
Dr. Joseph Wu has been selected as a Baxter Faculty Scholar.

Congratulations, Dr. Wu!

Research on Raman Imaging Receives Worldwide Media Coverage


April 21, 2008
Research from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab on Raman Imaging published in PNAS is covered by worldwide media including the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, US News & World Report, Photonics, the Telegraph in India.

[ read PNAS article ]

Carbon Nanotube Research Receives News Media Coverage


April 21, 2008
Research from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab in conjunction with the Dai Lab on Carbon Nanotube toxicity in Nature Nanotechnology is covered by news media: [ read Nature Nanotechnology article ]

Dr. Biswal Receives Moncada Award at Annual SCBT-MR Meeting


April 3, 2008
Dr. Sandip Biswal has been awarded the Moncada Award at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance for the research entitled "Imaging Pain and Nociception with Manganese-Enhanced MRI (MEMRI)"

Congratulations, Dr. Biswal!

Dr. Li Receives ISSCR Travel Award


April 2, 2008
Zongjin Li, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Lab, has received a Travel Award to attend the 2008 International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA from June 11-14 2008.

Congratulations, Zongjin!

Dr. Li Receives ACCF/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award


March 31, 2008
Zongjin Li, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Lab, has received the ACCF/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award from the American College of Cardiology.

Congratulations, Zongjin!

Dr. Li Finalist for Young Investigators Awards Competition


March 31, 2008
Zongjin Li, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Lab, is a finalists for the Young Investigators Awards Competition of the American College of Cardiology at the 57th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago.

Congratulations, Zongjin!

MIPS Research Published in Nature Medicine


March 26, 2008
Research led by Dr. Christopher Contag in the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory has been published in Nature Medicine. The research finds that cancer can be detected earlier and faster with new medical imaging.

[ Stanford News Report ]
[ Nature Medicine ]

Dr. Li Receives Young Investigator Award


February 29, 2008
Zongjin Li, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Lab, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Stanford University School of Medicine Cardiovascular Institute.

Congratulations, Zongjin!

Arne Vandenbroucke Receives the Henri Benedictus Fellowship of the BAEF and the King Baudouin Foundation


February 26, 2008
Congratulations to Arne Vandenbroucke, a postdoctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, for receiving a Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) Fellowship for his work to develop a 1 mm resolution breast-dedicated PET system.

Dr. Li Awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship


January 30, 2008
Dr. Zibo Li, post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has been awarded the Benedict Cassen Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Congratulations, Dr. Li!

Journal of the American College of Cardiology Cover


January 29, 2008
Research from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab in collaboration with the Yock Lab is featured on the cover of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).

View the abstract

Hao Peng Receives Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship


Congratulations to Hao Peng , of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, for receiving a 2008-2009 Dean's Post-Doctoral Fellowship for his proposal entitled "Investigation of a miniature PET camera insert dedicated to simultaneous PET/MRI mammography and MRI-guided biopsy".

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Cover


January 7, 2008
Work from the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging lab is featured on the cover of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

View the abstract

Natesh Parashurama Receives Speaker and Travel Award


December 15, 2007
Natesh Parashurama, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has been awarded a Speaker and Travel Award for the Stem Cell Bioengineering Conference AICHE.

Congratulations, Natesh!

Natesh Parashurama Receives Dean's Fellowship


December 15, 2007
Congratulations to Natesh Parashurama, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, for receiving a 2008-2009 Dean's Fellowship for his proposal entitled "Molecular imaging of the Cardiac Stem Cell Niche".

Congratulations, Natesh!

2007 IEEE Travel Award Winners


Novemeber 18, 2007
Francis Lau, Peter Olcott, and Guillem Pratx, all members of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL), were awarded a 2007 IEEE Medical Imaging Travel Grant sponsored by NIH to attend the 2007 IEEE NSS-MIC conference in Honolulu, HI.

Congratulations, Frances, Peter and Guillem!

Arne Vandenbroucke Awarded IEEE Scholarship


Novemeber 18, 2007
Arne Vandenbrouke, of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL), was awarded a scholarship to attend a short course at the 2007 IEEE NSS-MIC conference.

Congratulations, Arne!

Peter Olcott Runner Up for IEEE Student Paper Award


Novemeber 18, 2007
Peter Olcott, of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL), was also one of two runners up for the NPSS Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE NSS-MIC conference.

Congratulations, Peter!

Dr. Nui Receives DOD Prostate Cancer Training Award



Dr. Gang Niu, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL), received the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Training Award for his research on Hsp90 targeted imaging and therapy.

Congratulations, Dr. Nui!

RSNA Trainee Research Prize Recipients


October 22, 2007
Congratulations to Bao Do, Brian Kim, of the Molecular Imaging of Musculoskeletal Illnesses (MIMI) Lab, and Juergen Willmann, Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, of the who has been chosen by the RSNA Scientific Program Committee to receive the RSNA Trainee Research Prize.

Bao Do's research project is entitled "Feedback Natural Language Processing of Fractures in Unstructured Reports of Emergency Department Studies"

Brian Kim's research project is entitled "A Difference in the Pattern of 18F-FDG Uptake is Observed Within the Spinal Canal in Low Back Pain Patients"

Juergen Willmann's research project is entitled "Molecular Imaging of Therapeutic Angiogenesis in Murine Hindlimb Ischemia Using PET and 64Cu-labeled Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor121".

Congratulations, Bao, Brian and Juergen!

Frances Lau Receives McCormick Travel Grant Award


July 19, 2007
Frances Lau, an Electrical Engineering graduate student working in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory has been awarded a McCormick Travel Grant Award to attend the 2007 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference to present her work on a project to design and develop electronics for a 1 mm resolution breast dedicated PET imaging system.

Congratulations, Frances!

Bio-X Travel Award Recipients


July 9, 2007
Peter Olcott and Guillem Pratx, both of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Lab, have received Bio-X Travel Awards.

Peter is a Bioengineering student and received his Travel Award for his recent oral presentation at the 2007 Society of Nuclear Medicine Conference entitled: "Evaluation of a new readout ASIC for a 1 mm resolution PET system based upon position sensitive avalanche photodiodes".

Guillem is an Electrical Engineering student and received his Travel Award for his recent oral presentation at the The 9th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine entitled: "Acceleration of Fully 3-D List-Mode OSEM for High-Resolution PET using Graphics Processing Units."

Congratulations, Peter and Guillem!

Dr. Gambhir Cited in Science


July 3, 2007
Dr. Gambhir has been cited in an article on in vivo imaging in Science Magazine entitled "Life Science Technologies Cell Signaling: In Vivo Veritas".

[ read article ]

Trends in Molecular Medicine Journal Cover


June 30, 2007
Review of Molecular Imaging from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab was recently featured on the cover of Trends in Molecular Medicine.

[ view article ]

Kitch Wilson Receives Bio X Fellowship


June 25, 2007
Kitch Wilson, a graduate student in Bioengineering at Stanford and new member of the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Laboratory, has been selected to receive the prestigious Stanford Bio-X Program Graduate Student Fellowship to support his innovative proposal on a project looking at microenvironmental niches of stem cell homing.

Congratulations, Kitch!

Frances Lau Receives Bio−X Fellowship


June 25, 2007
Frances Lau, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford and new member of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, has been selected to receive the prestigious Stanford Bio-X Program Graduate Student Fellowship to support her innovative work to on a project to design and develop a 1 mm resolution breast dedicated PET imaging system.

Congratulations, Frances!

Dr. Li Receives SNM Award


June 18, 2007
Dr. Zibo Li, from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, was awarded 3rd Place "Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council Young Investigator Awards", for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Washington, DC.

Congratulations, Zibo!

Eun Kyoung Ryu Receives Dean's Fellowship


June 15
Congratulations to Eun Kyoung Ryu of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory!

Angela M K Foudray Awarded Full Sponsorship to Attend MaxEnt 2007


June 8, 2007
Angela M K Foudray, a physics graduate student in the Molecular Imaging and Instrumentation Lab (MIIL), was awarded a full student sponsorship to attend the 2007 International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods for her project entitled, "Bayesian Estimator for Angle Recovery: Event Classification and Reconstruction in Positron Emission Tomography."

MIPS Members Receive SNM 2007 Best Clinical Article


May 6, 2007
Dr.'s Quon, Napel, Beaulieu and Gambhir have received the 2007 Society of Nuclear Medicine Best Clinical Article for their research published in JNM entitled "'Flying through' and 'flying around' a PET/CT scan: Pilot study and development of 3D integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT for virtual bronchoscopy and colonoscopy."

Congratulations, Doctors!

[ more info ]

Zongjin Li Wins 2007 SVMB Young Investigator Award


June 4, 2007
Congratulations to Zongjin Li, of the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging , for winning the Jay D. Coffman, Young Investigator Award at the 2007 annual meeting for the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology Conference.

Congratulations, Zongjin!

Mei Huang Receives AHA Grant


May 30, 2007
Congratulations to Mei Huang from the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging Laboratory for receiving the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant from 2007-2009.

Center of Excellence in Cancer Early Detection


May 22, 2007
Canary Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research in early cancer detection, and Stanford University announce the commencement of a Center of Excellence for Cancer Early Detection. The Center formalizes a joint interest of Canary Foundation and Stanford University's Department of Radiology to advance molecular diagnostics with an emphasis in molecular imaging to pinpoint cancer while it is small. Canary Foundation celebrates this alliance with a pledge of $7.5 million, with $4 million to be matched by the Department of Radiology, slating a total of $11.5 million dollars for cancer early detection research.

This announcement also exemplifies a commitment between Canary Foundation and Stanford University's Cancer Center, which has recently received a National Cancer Institute designation. The Center of Excellence for Cancer Early Detection will be headed by Dr. Gambhir.

[ more info ]

Adam de la Zerda Won 1st Prize Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest - Women2.0


May 20, 2007
Adam de la Zerda, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, and 3 students from the Stanford Graduate School of Business has won the 1st prize in the Bay Area Entrepreneurship Contest - Women2.0 for our idea for a new medical device for wound closure using short pulsed lasers.

In the final round they presented to 12 Venture Capitalists from the Bay Area which eventually selected them as the winners for meetings with Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, as well as a money prize of $1500.

Congratulations, Adam!

Dr.'s Cai and Li Receive 1st and 2nd Place SNM 2007 Awards


May 14, 2007
Congratulations to Weibo Cai and Zibo Li, both from the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, for being awarded 1st and 2nd Place Young Professionals Committee Best Basic Science Awards, respectively, for the 2007 Annual Convention of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Washington, DC.

Congratulations, Doctors!

Dr. Gambhir Co-Hosts Nobel Symposium


May 10, 2007
Dr. Gambhir co-host's Nobel Symposium in Stockholm entitled "Watching Life Through Molecular Imaging".

[ more info ]

Pei-Lin Hsiung Awarded Canary Fund & American Cancer Society Fellowship


May 5, 2007
Pei-Lin Hsiung, a postdoctoral fellow in the Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging (NTROI), was awarded the Canary Fund and American Cancer Society Early Detection Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled, "Development of Peptide Reagents for In vivo Detection of Dysplasia in the Colon."

Congratulations, Pei-Lin!

Dr. Cai Awarded Benedict Cassen Fellowship


May 4, 2007
Dr. Weibo Cai, post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, has been awarded the Benedict Cassen Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society of Nuclear Medicine for the second year.

Congratulations, Weibo!

Jennifer Prescher Receives Susan G. Komen Fellowship


April 27, 2007
Jennifer Prescher, SMIS Fellow and member of the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for her proposal entitled "Examining CIK cell trafficking to breast tumor tissue in vivo". In general terms, this involves identifying the molecules involved in the migration of activated immune cells to breast tumor tissue.

Congratulations, Jennifer!

Dr. Cai Awarded the 2007 SNM Young Professionals Committee Best Basic Science Award


April 26, 2007
Dr. Weibo Cai, post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, was awarded the 2007 Society of Nuclear Medicine Young Professionals Committee Best Basic Science Award (1st place). The abstract submitted to the SNM Annual Meeting in Washington, DC is entitled “Quantitative RadioimmunoPET of EphA2 Expression in Xenograft-bearing Mice”.

Congratulations, Weibo!

Ricky Tong Receives RSNA Research Grant


April 20, 2007
Ricky Tong, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has been awarded a research grant by the RSNA.

Congratulations, Ricky!

Juergen Willmann Receives Swiss Foundation For Medical-Biological Grant


March 19, 2007
Congratulations to Juergen Willmann, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, who received the prolongation of his Research Fellowship grant from the Swiss Foundation For Medical-Biological Grants (SSMBS) for 2007/2008.

Congratulations, Juergen!

Dr. Feng Cao Awarded Circulation's 2006 Best Basic Science Paper


March 13, 2007
Dr. Feng Cao, post doctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging, received a the 2006 Best Basic Science paper in journal of Circulation for her paper, "In Vivo Visualization of Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Migration After Cardiac Delivery"

Congratulations, Feng!

Ricky Tong Awarded 2007 SNM Fellowship


February 23, 2007
Ricky Tong, graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, was awarded a 2007 Society of Nuclear Medicine Student Fellowship.

Congrtulations, Ricky!

Juergen Willmann Receives 2006 Editor's Recognition Award


January 26, 2007
Congratulations to Juergen Willmann, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, who received the 2006 Editor's Recognition Award from Elsevier. This award is in recognition of outstanding service as a reviewer of scientific manuscripts submitted for publication in European Journal of Radiology & European Journal of Radiology Extra.

Congratulations, Juergen!

Dr. Biswal Receives Resident Teaching Award


January 26, 2007
Congratulations to Dr. Biswal who received the 2006 Resident Teaching Award: Junior Faculty of the Year. This is the second year in a row he has received this award.

Congratulations, Dr. Biswal!

Ha-Young Lee Receives Korean Research Foundation (KRF) Scholarship


January 17, 2007
Congratulations to Ha-Young Lee, of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL), for her scholarship from the Korean Research Foundation (KRF) in Seoul. Ha-Young's research focuses on developing targeted iron oxide nanoparticles for molecular imaging and drug delivery.

Congratulations, Ha-Young!

Amelie Lutz Receives Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Scholarship


January 10, 2007
Congratulations to Amelie Lutz, who received the prolongation of her scholarship for her postdoctoral fellowship in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in Berne. Amelie's research focuses on molecular imaging in oncology, i.e. imaging of colon cancer and early detection of ovarian cancer.

Congratulations, Amelie!

Bryan Smith Receives Dean's Fellowship Award


December 18, 2006
Congratulations to Bryan Smith, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, who received the Dean's Fellowship Award.

Peter Olcott Receives Top Student Presentation IEEE MIC 2006


November 17, 2006
Peter Olcott, of the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory (MIIL) received the top student presentation award at the 2006 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego, CA.

Congratulations, Peter!

Dr. Gambhir Voted Most Influential Radiological Researcher


November 2, 2006
Dr. Gambhir has been voted "Most Influential Radiological Researcher" by Aunt Minnie.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

[ more info ]

Dr. Quon Quoted in R&D Magazine


October 12, 2006
Dr. Andrew Quon is quoted in R&D Magazine about his research that can provide images for "fly-through" and "fly-around" viewing of cancer.

View the full article

2006 IEEE Travel Award Winners


Angela Foudray, Peter Olcott, and Guillem Pratx, all members of the Molecular Imaing Instrumentation Labortatory have been awarded a travel award to attend the 2006 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in San Diego, October 31-November 4.

Congratulations, Angela, Guillem and Peter!

PEDS Journal Cover


September 28, 2006
Research collaboration between the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab (MMIL) and the Biomolecular Targeting Lab in the Crump Institute at UCLA was featured on the cover of the journal of Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. The article is entitled, "Bifunctional antibody-Renilla luciferase fusion protein for in vivo optical detection of tumors".

[ view abstract ]

2006 SMI Travel Awards


September 4, 2006
Congratulations to Weibo Cai of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory, Andreas Loening of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, and Sheen-Woo Lee of the Molecular Imaging of Musculoskeletal Illnesses for receiving travel awards to the 2006 Society of Molecular Imaging Conference on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Congratulations Weibo, Andy, and Sheen-Woo!

Dr. Contag Receives 2006 SMI Achievement Award


August 23, 2006
Dr. Christopher H. Contag is the winner of the 2006 Society for Molecular Imaging Achievement Award. This award is given to an individual who has made a fundamental discovery in the field of Molecular Imaging that has changed the direction of the field, or enabled new in vivo investigations that were not possible prior to their contribution.

Contratulations, Dr. Contag!

[ more info ]

MIPS Research Featured in Nature


August 17, 2006
Work in early cancer detection from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab and the Canary Foundation is featured in Nature.

[ view article ]

Dr. Thomas Wang Receives 2006 REGAL Award


August 16, 2006
Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD was successful in the Research Excellence in GI and Liver (REGAL) Awards Program competition. This award supports junior faculty members to conduct important research in the areas of upper GI, lower GI, endoscopy, outcomes, or hepatobiliary research. This program also helps to foster career development and strengthen relationships between young scientists and their senior faculty.

Congratulations, Tom!

MIPS Research Featured on AuntMinnie.com


July 27, 2006
Research combining 3D imaging technology with PET/CT carried out in the Clinical Molecular Imaging Research Group (CMIRG), 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory, and Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab (MMIL) is featured on AuntMinnie.com.

[ view article ]

Guillem Pratx Awarded 2006 NVIDIA Fellowship


July 27, 2006
Guillem Pratx, a graduate student performing his Ph.D. dissertation research within the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, has been awarded a 2006 NVIDIA research fellowship.

Congratulations Guillem!

[ more info ]

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Cover


July 10, 2006
Research carried out in the Clinical Molecular Imaging Research Group (CMIRG), 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory, and Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab (MMIL) was featured on the cover of Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The article is entitled, "'Flying Through' and 'Flying Around' a PET/CT Scan: Pilot Study and Development of 3D Integrated 18F-FDG PET/CT for Virtual Bronchoscopy and Colonoscopy".

[ view abstract ]

Dr. Pei-Lin Hsiung Awarded Dean's Fellowship


July 7, 2006
Congratulations to Dr. Pei-Lin Hsiung of the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory who has been awarded the Dean's Fellowship Award.

Congratulations, Dr. Hsiung!

Dr. Zibo Li Awarded Dean's Fellowship


June 26, 2006
Congratulations to Dr. Zibo Li of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) who has been awarded the Dean's Fellowship Award.

Congratulations, Dr. Li!

Dr. Thomas Wang Receives Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award


The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has conferred Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD a Clinical Scientist Development Award to provide support for junior physician-scientists to facilitate their transition to independent clinical research careers. Dr. Wang will use this 3 year award to develop peptide mediated optical molecular imaging techniques with confocal fluorescence microendoscopy to target early expression of cancer antigens in the gastrointestinal tract.

Ian Chen Receives Dorothy Penrose Stout Fellowship Award


Ian Chen, of the MMIL, was awarded the Dorothy Penrose Stout Fellowship Award in recognition of being the highest ranked American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship award recipient in the Western States Affiliate for 2006-07.

This prestigious award was created years ago to honor excellence in cardiovascular disease and/or stroke research within the Western States Affiliate (serving CA, NV and UT).

Congratulations, Ian!

Dr. Gowrishankar Receives Ruth L. Kirchstein Award


June 14, 2006
Dr. Gayatri Gowrishankar, Post Doctoral Fellow in the Cellular and Molecular Imaging Lab (CMIL), has been awarded the Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award which is a postdoctoral fellowship from the Cancer Biology Program at Stanford.

Congratulations, Dr. Gowrishankar!

Dr. Gambhir Receives 2006 Aebersold Award


June 4, 2006
SNM Names Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir as Recipient of 2006 Paul C. Aebersold Award for contributing extensively to molecular imaging and the basic science of using radioactive tracers. The Aebersold Award is named for Paul C. Aebersold, a pioneer in the biologic and medical application of radioactive materials and the first director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Division of Isotope Development at Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

[ more info ]

Guillem Pratx Receives Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship


June 1, 2006
Guillem Pratx, a graduate student performing his Ph.D. dissertation research in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, was awarded the prestigeous Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship for his work in developing novel tomographic image reconstruction strategies to improve the molecular sensitivity of positron emission tomography.

Congratulations Guillem!

Dr. Namavari 2nd Author on Abstract that Received 2006 SNM Berson-Yalow Award


May 22, 2006
Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Namavari, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, for being second author on the abstract that received the 2006 Society of Nuclear Medicine Berson-Yalow Award. The Berson-Yalow Award recognizes significant contributions to the advancement and promotion of nuclear medicine, specifically, the most significant contributions to basic or clinical radioassay.

The abstract is titled "Characterization of 131I-SKI243, a radiolabeled EGFR-tk binding ligand, and its cross reactivity for Iressa and Tarceva binding sites", Smith-Jones PM, Namavari M, Glekas A, Usher C & Larson SM.

Congratulations, Mohammad!

Ian Chen Receives Two Fellowships


May 19, 2006
Ian Chen, of the MMIL, received two Fellowships. The first is the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship which is a generous gift of an anonymous donor who is helping Stanford strengthen graduate training in interdisciplinary bioscience and so spur important new advances in science and engineering.

The second is the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship which is designed to help students initiate careers in cardiovascular research and to provide support for students conducting doctoral dissertation projects.

Both fellowships will help to support his research in cardiac molecular imaging.

Congratulation, Ian!

Dr. Thomas Wang Research Featured on NBC


April 27, 2006
Research carried out by Dr. Thomas Wang of the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory, was featured on local NBC 11 News. It hightlighted a novel in vivo optical molecular imaging technique that uses confocal microendoscopy to detect topically administered fluorescence peptides that are specific for surface antigens expressed by pre-malignant colonic mucosa. This method is currently in clinical trial for early detection of colon cancer.

[ View clip ] Windows Media

Dr. Chan Awarded Komen Foundation Fellowship


April 5, 2006
Dr. Carmel Chan, member of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for his project entitled "Imaging the efficacy of Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors in Human Breast Cancers".

Congratulations, Carmel!

Yerushalmi's Research Highlighted on Aunt Minnie


March 30, 2006
Research on the potential of virtual bronchoscopy done by David Yerushalmi, member of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, is highlighted on Aunt Minnie. Three-dimensional visualization with PET/CT may soon be expanded to virtual bronchoscopy, providing a new tool for diagnosis, treatment planning, and interventional guidance.

Congratulations, David!

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Trojan Horse Strategy for Fighting Cancer Developed


March 27, 2006
Research carried out in the Molecular Biophotonics and Imaging Laboratory utilizes the combination of two proven anti-tumor therapies-immune cells and a modified virus-resulted in a highly effective method for eliminating cancers in mice. The findings will be published in the March 24 issue of Science.

[ more info ]

Dr. Gowrishankar Receives 2006 AMI Travel Award


March 25, 2006
Dr. Gayatri Gowrishankar, Post Doctoral Fellow in the Cellular and Molecular Imaging Lab (CMIL) received a travel award to the 2006 Academy of Molecular Imaging Annual Conference at Orlando, Florida.

Congratulations, Dr. Gowrishankar!

Dr. Cai Awarded SNM Fellowship


March 5, 2006
Dr. Weibo Cai of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) has been awarded the Benedict Cassen Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Congratulations, Weibo.

MIPS Research Highlighted in Nature


March 2, 2006
Collaborative research on quantum dots between the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab and the Cellular and Molecular Imaging Lab was highlighted in Nature.

Read the Highlight [ PDF ]

[ View the Abstract ]

Ricky Tong Awarded Medical Student Scholars Fellowship


February 28, 2006
Ricky Tong, graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, was awarded a Stanford Medical Student Scholars Fellowship for his research in tri-fusion imaging.

Congrtulations, Ricky!

Dr. Robbins' Stem Cell Work Featured on '60 Minutes'


February 26, 2006
The widely watched television news show, "60 Minutes," heralded the revolutionary healing potential of embryonic stem cells in a Feb. 26 report - the night before a trial that could determine whether $3 billion will become available in California for stem cell research.

Included in the program was an interview with Robert Robbins, MD, chair of Stanford's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

[ More info ]

Congratulations, Robert!

Dr. Gambhir Awarded Hounsfield Medal


February 23, 2006
Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir was awarded the Hounsfield Medal on February 23rd from Imperial College, London for his scientific achievements in biomedical imaging. The medal is awarded in memory of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his invention of the CT scanner.

Congratulations, Sam!

MIPS Researchers Awarded 2006 SNM Fellowships


February 16, 2006
Susan Shu-An Lin, graduate student in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging and Guillem Pratx, graduate student in the Levin lab (Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Lab), were named Bradley-Alavi Fellows and David Yerushalmi, Research Assistant in the MMIL, was awarded a Student Fellowship.

Congratulations, Susan, Guillem and David!

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Dr. De's Research Highlighted in BioTechniques


February 8, 2006

Research carried out by Dr. Abhijit De, of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, on BRET imaging was featured in the journal BioTechniques.

View the writeup.

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Cover


January 3, 2006

Research carried out in the Chen Lab and Gambhir Lab was featured on the cover of Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The article is entitled, "Imaging Chemically Modified Adenovirus for Targeting Tumors Expressing Integrin alpha(v)beta(3) in Living Mice with Mutant Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Thymidine Kinase PET Reporter Gene".

View the abstract.

Dr. Cai Awarded Both 2006 AMI Travel Award & 2006 Gordon Research Conference Travel Award


December 21, 2005

Dr. Weibo Cai of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) has been awarded both the 2006 AMI Annual Conference Travel Award and the 2006 Gordon Research Conference (Peptides, Chemistry & Biology Of) Travel Award.

Congratulations, Weibo!

Dr. Qizhen Cao Awarded Dean's Fellowship


December 19, 2005

Dr. Qizhen Cao of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) has been awarded the Dean's Fellowship for her work on "Combined Integrin siRNA Therapy and Radiotherapy of Breast Cancer".

Congratulations, Qizhen!

Bao Do Receives 2005 RSNA Trainee Research Prize


Dec 2, 2005
Bao Do, member of the Molecular Imaging of Musculoskeletal Illnesses (MIMI) lab, received a Trainee Research Prize at the 91st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) for his work entitled:

"Metabolic Profile of the Spinal Cord by Whole Body [18F]-2-deoxy-3-fluoro-d-glucose (18F-FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging"

Congratulations, Bao!

Feng Cao Receives Best Basic Science Poster Award


November 17, 2005
Dr. Feng Cao, post doctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging, received a Best Basic Science Poster Award at the 2005 American Heart Association meeting.

Congratulations, Feng!

Dr. Gambhir Receives 2005 Minnie


October 25, 2005
Dr. Gambhir has been awarded a Minnie as one of the Most Influential Radiology Researchers of 2005 by AuntMinnie. Minnies winners are selected by the votes of AuntMinnie.com members in the Fall of each year through a three-part process: nominations, semifinals, and finals.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

Angela Foudray Receives Travel Award to Attend 2005 IEEE Conference


September 23, 2005
Angela Foudray has been awarded a NIH-NIBIB funded travel award to attend the 2005 IEEE Medical Imaging Conference in Puerto Rico.

Congratulations, Angela!

Dr Gambhir Quoted in Forbes Magazine


September 9, 2005
Sam Gambhir, Professor of Radiology and Director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, is quoted in this article about tiny sensors that can spot disease before it occurs.

View the full article.

Angela Foudray Awarded Full Scholarship to 2005 Molecular Imaging Summer School


August 22, 2005
Angela Foudray, a graduate student in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Lab (MIIL) has been awarded a full scholarship to attend the 2005 Molecular Imaging Summer School in Crete September 12-17. The summer school is sponsored by the organizations Diagnostic Molecular Imaging and European Molecular Imaging Laboratories.

Chemical & Engineering News Cover


July 25, 2005
Work from the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab in collaboration with the Clinical Molecular Imaging Research Group, 3D Medical Imaging Laboratory, and Nuclear Medicine Clinic is featured on the cover of Chemical & Engineering News.

View the abstract

Jonathan Liu Awarded Canary Fund & American Cancer Society Fellowship


July 26, 2005

Jonathan Liu, a postdoctoral fellow in the the Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging (NTROI), was awarded the Canary Fund and American Cancer Society Early Detection Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project entitled, "A miniature dual-axes confocal microscope for the early detection of cancer."

Congratulations, Jonathan!

Tiffany Chung Receives Bio-X Fellowship


July 19, 2005

Congratulations to Tiffany Chung of the Cellular and Molecular Imaging Lab for receiving the Bio-X Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship will help to support her postdoctoral research in developing new methods for imaging cell apoptosis in living animals.

Congratulations, Tiffany!

Feng Cao Awarded 2005 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Grant


June 15, 2005

Feng Cao, a postdoctoral fellow from Dr. Joseph Wu's laboratory, was awarded 2005 American Society of Nuclear Cardiology grant in cardiovascular molecular imaging.

Congratulations, Feng!

2005 SNM Image of the Year


June 22, 2005

Work from the MIPS, 3-D visualization lab, and GE Medical Systems on virtual PET-CT image visualization receives the 2005 Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) Image of the Year. [ more info | view image ]

Dr. Gambhir gives Wagner Lectureship at SNM 2005


June 19, 2005

Dr. Sam Gambhir gives the Wagner Lectureship at the 2005 Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) meeting in Toronto, Canada to over 4,000 physicians and scientists on the future of molecular imaging.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

Yingbing Wang Awarded SNM Student Fellowship


June 15, 2005

Congratulations to Yingbing Wang of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Laboratory (MMIL) who has been awarded an SNM Student Fellowship.

Congratulations, Yingbing!

Dr. Weibo Cai awarded Dean's Fellowship & 2005 SMI Travel Award


June 15, 2005

Congratulations to Dr. Weibo Cai of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) who has been awarded both the Dean's Fellowship as well as the 2005 SMI Travel Award.

Congratulations, Dr. Cai!

Journal of Gastroentorology Cover


June 13, 2005
Work from the Gambhir lab in collaboration with the Barrio Lab (UCLA) and the PET group in Pamplona, Spain is featured on the cover of Gastroentorology. This work demonstrates for the first time imaging of adenoviral mediated gene delivery in humans using 18F-FHBG which is trapped by the HSV1-TK reporter protein.

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Angela Foudray awarded the P.E.O. Scholar Award


May 5, 2005
Angela Foudray, a graduate student in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory has been awarded the P.E.O. Scholar Award from P.E.O. International on her work to develop a high resolution, high sensitivity Positron Emission Tomography system for molecular imaging of mouse models of human disease.

Congratulations, Angela!

Joseph Wu Awarded Top Drug Development Abstract


April 4, 2005
Joseph Wu, director of the Wu Lab, has been awarded the Top Drug Development Abstract by a Young Investigator by the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI).

Congratulations, Joseph!

Ian Chen Awarded Top Basic Science Abstract at AMI


April 4, 2005
Ian Chen, graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has been awarded the Top Basic Science Abstract by a Young Investigator by the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI) for his abstract entitled "A Generalizable Bi-directional Vector for Non-invasive Imaging and Amplification of Transgene Expression Mediated by a Weak Cardiac-specific Promoter".

Congratulations, Ian!

2005 AMI Travel Award Winners


April 4, 2005
Congratulations to the following 2005 AMI Travel Award Winners:
Carmel Chan, Ian Chen, Abhijit De, Andreas Loening, Manish Patel, R. Paulmurugan, Pritha Ray, Sunetra Ray, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel

Top Clinical Abstract at AMI 2005


April 4, 2004
Dr. Gambhir's abstract entitled "Repeated Monitoring of Transgene Expression In Cancer Patients with Positron Emission Tomography" receives top clinical abstract award at AMI.

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Dr. Gheysens Receives Fellowship


February 17, 2005
Dr. Olivier Gheysens, a fellow in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab laboratory, has been awarded a predoctoral Fellowship by the Belgian American Educational Foundation to continue his studies on multimodality imaging of cardiac cell therapy.

Congratulations, Dr. Gheysens!

Dr. Zhang Receives Dean's Fellowship


February 15, 2005
Yan Zhang, a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Rao's laboratory, has been awarded a Stanford Unversity School of Medicine Dean's Fellowship for her work on developing novel nanosensors for targeted tumor imaging.

Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!

Science Cover


February 2, 2005
Work from the Wu, Weiss, and Gambhir labs on quantum dots is featured on the cover of Science. This work reviews the potential of quantum dots for various applications including eventual cancer imaging in humans. This work further strengthens the growing bonds between nanotechnology, imaging, and cancer.

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Dr. Gambhir Receives the 2004 Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award


November 22, 2004
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Thursday that MIPS Director Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD was selected to receive a $1.5 million prize, designated for mid-career physician-scientists whose research shows promise for translating the latest scientific advances into new ways to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure disease. They were chosen from 71 scientists who were nominated for the honor by their respective institutions. The nominees are required to submit research proposals outlining how they would use the funds over a five-to seven-year period. [ more info ]

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

Dr. Negrin Receives the 2004 Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award


November 22, 2004
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Thursday that MIPS Associate Member Robert Negrin, MD was selected to receive a $1.5 million prize, designated for mid-career physician-scientists whose research shows promise for translating the latest scientific advances into new ways to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure disease. They were chosen from 71 scientists who were nominated for the honor by their respective institutions. The nominees are required to submit research proposals outlining how they would use the funds over a five-to seven-year period. [ more info ]

Congratulations, Dr. Negrin!

Andy Loening Receives Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship


October 13, 2004
Congratulations to Andy Loening of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab for receiving the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship.

The fellowship is the generous gift of an anonymous donor who is helping Stanford strengthen graduate training in interdisciplinary bioscience and so spur important new advances in science and engineering.

Congratulations, Andy!

Dr. Gambhir Receives SMI Achievement Award


September 12, 2004
Congratulations to Dr. Gambhir who has been awarded the Society of Molecular Imaging Achievement Award. This award is given to an individual who has made a fundamental discovery in the field of Molecular Imaging that has changed the direction of the field, or enabled new in vivo investigations that were not possible prior to their contribution. This gold medal prize is awarded once a year to a single scientist at the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging. [ Download PDF ]

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

SMI Travel Award Winners


September 7, 2004
Congratulations to Andy Loening, Pritha Ray, Sunetra Ray and Hui Zhao whose abstracts have been awarded Young Investigator Travel Award's to the 2004 Society of Molecular Imaging Annual meeting in St. Louis, MO.

Congratulations Andy, Pritha, Sunetra and Hui!

Dr. Zhang Receives Dean's Fellowship


August 23, 2004
Jin Zhang, a post-doctoral fellow in the Molecular Imaging Instrumentation Laboratory, has been awarded a Stanford Unversity School of Medicine Dean's Fellowship for his work on developing novel Positron Emission Tomography (PET) instrumentation dedicated to breast cancer imaging.

Congratulations Jin!

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Cover


August 7, 2004
Research done in the Chen Lab was featured on the cover of Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The abstract is entitled, "microPET and Autoradiographic Imaging of GRP Receptor Expression with 64Cu-DOTA-[Lys3]Bombesin in Human Prostate Adenocarcinoma Xenografts".

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Dr. Gambhir listed in "Who's Who" List


The July edition of Health Imaging & IT magazine cited Dr. Sanjiv Gambhir in its list of "Who's Who? 100 Names You Need to Know." Nominated by the magazine's readers, the list featured 100 leaders from medical specialties and healthcare facilities across the country.

Human Gene Therapy Journal Cover


July 27, 2004
Research done in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab was featured on the cover of Human Gene Therapy. The abstract is entitled, "Novel Bidirectional Vector Strategy for Amplification of Therapeutic and Reporter Gene Expression".

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FASEB Journal Cover


July 1, 2004
Research done in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab was featured on the cover of FASEB. The abstract is entitled, "Molecular imaging of homodimeric protein-protein interactions in living subjects".

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Ian Chen Awarded Predoctoral Fellowship Award


May 17, 2004
Ian Chen, graduate student in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab, has been awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship award by the American Heart Association (AHA) for his work on multimodality imaging of cardiac gene therapy.

Congratulations, Ian!

Dr. Gambhir Receives AMI Distinguished Basic Scientist Award


March 30, 2004
Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir received the Distinguished Basic Scientist of the Year award from the Academy of Molecular Imaging at the annual conference in Orlando, FL. The award is given annually to those who have made major contributions to the development and enhancement of PET/molecular imaging as recognized by his/her colleagues. Dr. Gambhir received the award for the development of several new reporter gene / reporter probes which are being used in cell trafficking models, gene therapy models, and in transgenic models for studying cancer biology.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

PET/CT & Molecular Imaging "boldly going"...


March 15, 2004
Dr. Gambhir discusses the development of PET/CT and molecular imaging as it compares to Star Trek's sickbay technology: "We're a little bit closer" but "not quite at that level yet."

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Dr. Hardy Research Featured in Science


February 2, 2004
Research done on the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes by Dr. Hardy of the Molecular Biophotonics & Imaging Lab is featured in Science Magazine.

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Molecular Imaging Field News Article in Science


January 17, 2004
Research done in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab is referenced in Science Magazine.

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PEDS Journal Cover


January 8, 2004
Research done in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab in collaboration with Dr. Anna Wu (UCLA) & investigators at the City of Hope was featured on the cover of Protein Engineering Design and Selection. The abstract is entitled, "Covalent disulfide-linked anti-CEA diabody allows site-specific conjugation and radiolabeling for tumor targeting applications".

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Paper from Contag Lab one of the most often cited papers in engineering


December 9, 2003
Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators has selected a paper from the Contag Lab as one of the most often cited papers in engineering. ISI Essential Science Indicators from ISI lists highly cited papers in 22 broad fields of science. These papers comprise the top 1% of papers in each field and each year. The paper by Contag and Bachmann entitled, "Advances in vivo bioluminescence imaging of gene expression" published in ANNU REV BIOMED ENG (Vol 4; Pages: 235-260) was selected in the field of Engineering.

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Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir receives the Holst Medal


November 20, 2003
Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, Director of the MIPS, was selected to receive the 2003 Holst Medal at a symposium on molecular imaging, organized by Philips Research, Philips Medical Systems and Technical University at Eindhoven in the Netherlands. In addition, he received a medal designed by Dutch sculptor Jos Reniers for this year's 25th anniversary of the Holst lecture. The annual award recognizes Dr. Gambhir's many outstanding contributions including innovative uses of imaging approaches to gene therapy. Gilles Holst, the award's namesake, was the first director of Philips Research Laboratories and one of the founders of the Dutch university.

Congratulations, Dr. Gambhir!

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Clark Center Featured in SF Chronicle


October 22, 2003
Home to the MIPS and Bio X program, the James H. Clark Center is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle for it's innovative design which hopes to foster multidisciplinary collaboration to help speed up innovations in high-tech medicine.

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Christophe Deroose receives the Young Scientist Award for Best Abstract at Intl AMI Conference


October 3, 2003
Congratulations to Christophe Deroose of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging lab for winning this years Young Scientist Award for Best Abstract at the IMI/Hi-Res Meeting that took place at the International AMI conference in Madrid, Spain.

His abstract entitled "Small Animal microPET/microCAT Imaging Studies of a Tumor Metastatic Model" discusses multimodality PET-CT imaging of xenografts and metastatic melanoma lesions in mice. The tumors are imaged using FDG as well as a reporter gene strategy.

Congratulations Christophe!

Dr. Wu research featured on Circulation Cover


September 16, 2003
Dr. Joe Wu of the Gambhir Multimodality Molecular Imaging lab whose work on optical and PET imaging of myoblasts implanted into rat myocardium is featured on the cover of Circulation.

Congratulations Joseph!

Journal of Circulation Cover


Research done in the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab demonstrating the feasibility of monitoring transplanted cell survival in living animals using molecular imaging techniques was featured on the cover of Circulation. The abstract is entitled, "Molecular Imaging of Cardiac Cell Transplantation in Living Animals Using Optical Bioluminescence and Positron Emission Tomography".

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Shahriar Yaghoubi receives RSNA Research & Education Award


August 5, 2003
Congratulations to Shahriar Yaghoubi of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab for receiving RSNA's Research Fellowship in Basic Radiological Sciences. The fellowship will help support his post doctoral research on using microPET for imaging cell trafficking in adoptive immune cell gene therapy of rheumatoid arthritis. This research will be done in conjunction with Dr. Fathman's Laboratory.

Congratulations Shahriar!

Ian Chen Wins 2003 SNM Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award


July 1, 2003
Congratulations to Ian Chen of the Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab for winning this years Cardiovascular Young Investigator Award at the 50th Annual Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in New Orleans.

Congratulations, Ian!




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