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　　The State Key Lab of

　　High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure

　　Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

　　中 国 科 学 院 上 海 硅 酸 盐 研 究 所 高 性 能 陶 瓷 和 超 微 结 构 国 家 重 点 实 验 室

　　Molecular Imaging, Image-Guided Drug Delivery, and Theranostics

　　Weibo Cai

　　University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

　　时间：2015年6月23日（星期二）上午 9:00

　　地点：2号楼607会议室（国家重点实验室）

　　欢迎广大科研人员和研究生参与讨论！

　　联系人：施剑林（2712）、步文博（2610）

　　报告摘要：

　　The Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin - Madison 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). Three of the major molecular targets that we are investigating are CD105 (i.e. endoglin), VEGFR, and integrin αvβ3. The nanomaterials that will be discussed in this presentation include nano-graphene oxide, zinc oxide nanomaterials, micelles, silica-based nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, among many others. A few representative side projects will also be presented, such as the facile synthesis of PET/MRI and PET/PAT dual-modality agents.

　　报告人介绍：

　　Dr. Weibo Cai received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 2004, and did his postdoctoral research at the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University. In February 2008, Dr. Cai joined the University of Wisconsin - Madison as a Biomedical Engineering Cluster Hire, and his research there has focused on molecular imaging and nanotechnology (http://mi.wisc.edu/).

　　Dr. Cai has authored > 160 peer-reviewed articles, > 20 book chapters, and > 180 conference abstracts. In addition, he has edited 2 books (1 more in the process) and given >120 talks. Dr. Cai has received many prestigious awards, including the Society of Nuclear Medicine Young Professionals Committee Best Basic Science Award (2007), the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Springer Prize (2011 & 2013), European Association of Nuclear Medicine Eckert & Ziegler Abstract Award (2012), American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2013-2017), NIH R01, among many others. But what he is most proud of is that his trainees at UW-Madison have received > 40 awards (e.g. 2012 Berson-Yalow Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging).

　　Dr. Cai has served on the editorial boards of many scientific journals, performed peer review for >120 journals, participated in many grant review panels, served on various committees of scientific societies (e.g. SNMMI), and chaired sessions at multiple international conferences. Prof. Cai is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (http://www.ajnmmi.us), which was launched in 2011 and is currently fully indexed in PubMed.