Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response

2009 Annual CCNE-TR Symposium

Anna Wu, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
Associate Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
University of California, Los Angeles

Anna M. Wu, Ph.D, is Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in Los Angeles, California. She also holds appointments as Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA, Associate Director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, and Director of the Cancer Molecular Imaging Program in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA. Dr. Wu received her A.B. degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Postdoctoral studies were carried out at Yale University and at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Wu's research interests include engineered proteins (including antibodies) for targeting and imaging applications in cancer, including the use of SPECT, PET, optical and multimodality approaches. Dr. Wu recently co-founded ImaginAb, focused on engineered antibodies for diagnostic imaging.

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