Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence Focused on Therapy Response

2009 Annual CCNE-TR Symposium

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)
Chief, Nuclear Medicine Division
Professor, Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering, Bio-X Program

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir is a Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering at Stanford University. He is the Head of Nuclear Medicine and Director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS). He trained at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Scientist Training Program, where he obtained both his M.D. and Ph.D. He completed his Medicine and Nuclear Medicine training at UCLA and was a Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Vice-chair of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology and Director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging before moving to Stanford University in 2003.

Dr. Gambhir has a translational laboratory that focuses on molecular imaging including new probe development for positron emission tomography (PET) and multimodality molecular imaging including the use of optical imaging. His laboratory has developed methods to image gene/cell therapy in living subjects including humans. He has developed many strategies for imaging basic cell/molecular events including signal transduction, gene expression, and cell trafficking. Dr. Gambhir also has extensive experience with clinical FDG PET and has developed many of the management algorithms for cancer patients including cost-effectiveness models.

Dr. Gambhir currently oversees the activities of over 25 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in his own lab and over 125 scientists/staff in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford. He is funded by the National Institutes of Health and several Foundations. Dr. Gambhir's recent honors include receipt of the Paul C. Aebersold Award in 2006, from the Society of Nuclear Medicine, which is given for outstanding achievement in basic nuclear medicine science. In 2006 he was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and in 2008 he was elected as a fellow of the American Society for Clinical Investigators (ASCI). Dr. Gambhir also co-hosted a Nobel Symposium in Stockholm in 2007 for the Nobel Committee on Molecular Imaging. In 2008, he received the Tesla Medal from the United Kingdom Royal College of Radiologists in England for his work on Multimodality Imaging of Living Subjects. He was also elected to the Institutes of Medicine (IOM) of the US National Academies in 2008.

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