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SUMMARY:Molecular Imaging\, Image-Guided Drug Delivery\, and Theranostics
DTSTART:20171018T101500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Weibo Cai\, University of Wisconsin - Madison (USA)\nBIO
 ENGINEERING SEMINAR\n\nAbstract:\nThe Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology
  Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (http://mi.wisc.edu/)
  is mainly focused on three areas: 1) development of multimodality molecul
 ar imaging agents\; 2) nanotechnology and its biomedical applications\; an
 d 3) molecular therapy of cancer.\nIn this talk\, I will present our recen
 t work on molecular imaging and image-guided drug delivery of cancer and s
 ome cardiovascular diseases with peptides\, proteins\, and a variety of na
 nomaterials. The primary imaging techniques used in these studies are posi
 tron emission tomography (PET)\, photoacoustic tomography (PAT)\, optical 
 imaging\, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Some of the major molecula
 r targets that we are investigating are CD105 (i.e. endoglin)\, PD-1/PD-L
 1\, CTLA-4\, VEGFR\, CD146\, integrin αvβ3\, among others. The nanomater
 ials that will be discussed in this presentation may include silica-based 
 nanoparticles\, nano-graphene oxide\, micelles\, iron oxide nanoparticles\
 , 2-D nanomaterials\, hybrid nanomaterials\, among many others. Lastly\, t
 he emerging paradigm of intrinsically radiolabeled nanomaterials will be d
 iscussed as multi-modal PET/MRI\, PET/PAT imaging agents\, as well as for 
 theranostic applications.\n\nBio:\nDr. Weibo Cai is an associate professor
  of Radiology\, Medical Physics\, Biomedical Engineering\, and Materials S
 cience & Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\, USA. He re
 ceived a bachelor of science degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University\,
  China (1995) and a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of Ca
 lifornia\, San Diego (2004). Between 2005 and 2008\, Dr. Cai did his post-
 doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen at the 
 Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS). In February 2008\, Dr. Cai j
 oined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a Biomedical Engineering Cl
 uster Hire\, and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2014. 
 Dr. Cai’s research at UW–Madison (mi.wisc.edu) is primarily focused on
  molecular imaging and nanotechnology.
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