Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Focused on Therapy Response (CCNE-TR)

Personnel

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research
Chairman, Department of Radiology
Professor (By courtesy), Departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)
Director, Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection

Principal Investigator
Leader, Project 6

Shan Wang, PhD
Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, and jointly Electrical Engineering
Director of the Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology
Director of the Stanford Center for Research on
Information Storage Materials (CRISM)
Stanford University

Co-Principal Investigator
Leader, Project 1

Demir Akin, DMV, PhD
Deputy Director, Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Department of Radiology
Stanford University

Deputy Director

David Agus, MD
Professor of Medicine and Engineering
Director, USC Norris Westside Cancer Center
Director, USC Center for Applied Molecular Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of USC and USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Leader, Project 4

Brian Bales, PhD
General Electric Global Research

Investigator, Project 1

Hongjie Dai, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Stanford University

Leader, Project 2

Andrew Ellington, PhD
Fraser Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas at Austin

Investigator, Project 4

Dean Felsher, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine - Oncology
Stanford University

Consultant, Project 2
Co-Leader, Project 6

Samir Hanash, MD, PhD
Program Head, Molecular Diagnostic
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Co-Leader, Project 4

Jonathan Katz, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Hematology/Oncology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Co-Investigator, Project 4

Michael Kelly, PhD
Consulting Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Investigator, Core 1

Parag Mallick, PhD
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UCLA

Co-Leader, Project 4

Ed Myers, PhD
Senior Research Engineer, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
Stanford University

Investigator, Core 2

David Paik, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, RSL
Manager, Stanford Center for Biomedical Computation
Stanford University

Leader, Core 4

Jianghong Rao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Stanford University

Co-Investigator, Project 5

Robert Sinclair, PhD
Professor and Chair, Materials Science and Engineering
Director of the Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory (SNL)
Stanford University

Core Leader, Project 1

Mary Tang, PhD
Senior Research Engineer, Stanford Nanofabrication Facility
Stanford University

Co-Leader, Core 2

Paul J (PJ) Utz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
Stanford University

Collaborator, Project 2

Robert Wilson, PhD
Senior Research Engineer
Manager, Nanomagnetics Facility
Stanford University

Co-Investigator, Project 1

Anna Wu, PhD
Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Associate Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
Co-Director, UCLA Scholars in Oncologic Molecular Imaging (SOMI)
Co-Director, UCLA Scholars in Oncologic Molecular Imaging (SOMI)
Co-Director, Tumor Immunology Program in the UCLA Jonnson Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCLA

Leader, Project 5

Siavash Yazdanfar, PhD
Biomedical Engineer
GE Global Research

Co-Investigator, Project 6


Previous Members

  • Amit Kulkarni (GE)
  • Yoship Nishi (Stanford)
  • Shawn Chen (Stanford)
  • Robert Filkins (GE)
  • Samaria Guccione (Stanford)
  • Beatrice Knudsen (Fred Hutchinson)
  • Garry Nolan (Stanford)
  • Anjali Jain (Cedars/Sinai)