MOLECULAR IMAGING INSTRUMENTATION LABORATORY - Key Persons
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.
Dr. Gonzalez-Montoro has been mostly working on the design and evaluation of high efficiency Positron Emission Tomography (PET) detector blocks based on monolithic crystals and SiPMs, and on the implementation of positioning-algorithms for an accurate 3D photon impact coordinate determination within the detector.
Dr. Groll is working on a preclinical CZT system and the lab's first generation MRI compatible PET insert.
Job Titles:
- Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.
Job Titles:
- CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Caterina Zampa was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, in February 2002. She graduated from high school in June 2020 and is currently enrolled in her first year of undergraduate studies at Stanford University. She is following a pre-med track and is planning to major in Bioengineering and minor in Computer Science.
For her research she is working on the design of the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner using Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystal detectors to maximize spatial and energy resolution for imaging of small molecular probes. Her project involves analyzing the physics behind the drift of the electron-hole pair through the semiconductor and evaluating whether sub-electrode photon positioning is possible.
Chen-Ming is interested in the front-end and back-end design of the medical devices. He is also interested in the molecular imaging instrumentation at the system level. Currently, he is developing a MRI compatible PET scanner insert dedicated to brain imaging.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Radiology, and by Courtesy, Physics, Electrical Engineering, and Bioengineering
Job Titles:
- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
Derek is interested in mechanical Design, and interpersonal relationships in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Dr. Jeong is interested in working on ultrafast detection of ionizing radiation to improve coincidence time resolution of the PET system, using techniques in modern optics.
Emily is interested in designing a board to synchronize photon detector modules of a positron emission tomography (PET) insert for combined PET+MRI imaging.
Emma is working on developing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) nanoparticles for cancer imaging.
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.
Dr. Chinn is working on image reconstruction, signal processing, and image analysis.
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics, Stanford University School of Medicine
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Medical Phyics, McMaster University
My interests include detector physics and radiation detection technology. At Stanford Univ. I have helped support the introduction of opto-electronics technology in data transfer and radiation detection methods.
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes believed to control the body's reponses to foreign proteins, which suggests that people may have predictable susceptibility to certain diseases.
Pathologist Irving Weissman isolates a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem cell, which gives rise to all the cells of the blood and immune systems.
Pathologist Irving Weissman identifies the stem cell that gives rise to bladder cancer, and also shows how the cell uses the "don't-eat-me" signal, a molecule known as CD47, to evade the body's defenses.
Pathologist Irving Weissman shows that a single antibody, which counters the effect of the CD47 molecule, shrinks a variety of human tumors transplanted into mice.
Job Titles:
- Research Engineer, Perkin - Elmer Optoelectronics, Santa Clara, CA
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
John Farquhar and Peter Wood lead the first large clinical investigation that shows lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart disease.
Jonathan is interested in signal processing, computer vision and machine learning for algorithm development in medical imaging
Job Titles:
- Product Engineer, Samsung Electronics, Seoul Korea
Dr. Cates is interested in novel detector development for PET imaging. Specifically, his research investigates technologies and techniques for reducing the timing performance of scintillation detectors coupled to analogue and digital silicon photomultipliers towards statistical limits. He is also investigating depth-of-interaction techniques for ToF-PET detectors coupled to MRI-compatible photosensor technologies.
Li is interested in probing radiation-induced optical property changes in photonic materials for faster timing in time-of-flight PET system.
Job Titles:
- CARL and ELIZABETH NAUMANN DEAN of the SCHOOL of MEDICINE / VICE PRESIDENT for MEDICAL AFFAIRS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
- DEAN, STANFORD SCHOOL of MEDICINE
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.
Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
Dr. Ghijsen is working on the development of a web-based graphical user interface for 0.5 mm resolution PET.
Dr. Ullah is working on high resolution preclinical PET scanner.
Job Titles:
- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
Qian is interested in developing a radio frequency-penetrable PET insert to achieve simultaneous PET/MR using the built in body coil as RF transmitter.
Riley is currently working on the lab's pre-clinical small-animal cadmium zinc telluride positron emission tomography system.
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.
Radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir develops a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .
Researcher William Haskell shows that intensive lifestyle changes and prevention/treatment programs can reduce cardiac events and slow the progression of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries.
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.