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MIPS News
 | 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.
Congratulations, Zongjin! |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | Dr. Wu Selected as Baxter Faculty Scholar
April 23, 2008
Dr. Joseph Wu has been selected as a Baxter Faculty Scholar.
Congratulations, Dr. Wu! |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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". |
 | 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! |
 | 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".
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 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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.
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 | 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. Gambhir Co-Hosts Nobel Symposium
May 10, 2007
Dr. Gambhir co-host's Nobel Symposium in Stockholm entitled "Watching Life Through Molecular Imaging".
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 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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!
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 | 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.
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 | 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".
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 | 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!
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 | 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! |
 | 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!
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 | 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.
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 | 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 ] |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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. |
 | 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! |
 | 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! |
 | 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".
View the abstract |
 | 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."
View the complete article. |
 | 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 |
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