Molecular Imaging, Image-Guided Drug Delivery, and Theranostics
Event details
Date | 18.10.2017 |
Hour | 10:15 |
Speaker | Prof. Weibo Cai, University of Wisconsin - Madison (USA) |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
BIOENGINEERING SEMINAR
Abstract:
The 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 molecular imaging agents; 2) nanotechnology and its biomedical applications; and 3) molecular therapy of cancer.
In this talk, I will present our recent work on molecular imaging and image-guided drug delivery of cancer and some cardiovascular diseases with peptides, proteins, and a variety of nanomaterials. The primary imaging techniques used in these studies are positron emission tomography (PET), photoacoustic tomography (PAT), optical imaging, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Some of the major molecular targets that we are investigating are CD105 (i.e. endoglin), PD-1/PD-L1, CTLA-4, VEGFR, CD146, integrin αvβ3, among others. The nanomaterials 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, the emerging paradigm of intrinsically radiolabeled nanomaterials will be discussed as multi-modal PET/MRI, PET/PAT imaging agents, as well as for theranostic applications.
Bio:
Dr. Weibo Cai is an associate professor of Radiology, Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. He received a bachelor of science degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University, China (1995) and a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of California, 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 joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a Biomedical Engineering Cluster 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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- Institute of Bioengineering (IBI, Dietrich REINHARD)