Jianghong Rao Lab In the Departments of Radiology and Chemistry

Rao Lab Group Members:

Prof. Jianghong Rao, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology and Chemistry (courtesy), Member of the Molecular Imaging, Bio-X, Cancer Biology, and Biophysics Programs
jrao@stanford.edu


Prof. Rao did his Ph.D. with George M. Whitesides and his postdoc with Roger Y. Tsien. He became an Assistant Professor at UCLA before joining Stanford. Prof. Rao enjoys playing with his little daughter Angela and working in the backyard mowing grass and cutting trees.
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Dawoon Jung, Lab Technician
dwjung@stanford.edu


Dawoon is a very friendly and helpful lab technician. She is usually around the labs in the mornings and spends her free time playing with her young baby!

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Dr. Youngpil Kim, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
ypkim@stanford.edu


Pil is interested in nanomedicine, nanobioprobes for in vivo imaging, cancer diagnosis, molecular and cellular imaging, and resonance energy transfer-based analysis. He also has cool personal websites in English and Korean.

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Dr. Fred Lartey, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
fmlartey@stanford.edu


Fred works on projects involving imaging of beta-lactamase and furin activities. He is also an avid dancer and enjoys meeting new people.

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Jungjoon Lee, Chemistry Graduate Student
jkl22@stanford.edu


Jungjoon's project selects RNA aptamers which activate quenched dyes using SELEX, Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment. Such aptamers may be useful as in vivo tags for RNAs. Jungjoon also enjoys playing sports and reading randomly selected books.

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Dr. Gaolin Liang, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
gliang@stanford.edu


My research project involves designing and synthesizing new probes which can smartly self-polymerize intracellularly or inside animals (often in mice) to detect enzyme activities in vitro and in vivo. This new strategy may result in new methods of imaging tumors and resolve multi-drug resistance.

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Dr. Nan Ma, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
nanma@stanford.edu


Nan is a super nice new post-doc in the lab who brings expertise in functionalizing quantum dots with nucleic acids, and using quantum dots for in vivo imaging and cancer diagnositic applications.

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Brandon Seagle, MSTP (M.D./Ph.D) and Biophysics Student
bseagle@stanford.edu


Brandon evaluates phage-selected peptides conjugated to imaging probes, and develops applications of a novel molecular imaging paradigm. He also tutors, TAs, and runs marathons with his girlfriend, Judy.

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Dr. Zuyong Xia, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
zxia@stanford.edu


Zuyong is the molecular biology expert in the lab. He uses cloning to engineer modified luciferase proteins for in vivo imaging applications.

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Dr. Hexin Xie, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
xiehexin@stanford.edu


Hexin is a very friendly, synthetic organic chemist who spends all his time at the bench smiling.

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Dr. Ke Zhan, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow
kezhan@stanford.edu


Ke is a new post-doc who just started in the Rao lab. He is an expert neuroscientist. You can find out more about Ke's recent experience by looking at his personal website.


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