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
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)