Postdoctoral Fellows

Gang (Tiger) Ren, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (CMICL)

Education:

Ph.D., Advanced Radiological Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
M.D., Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine, Tongji University

Awards:

2006 Student Fellowship Award - Society of Nuclear Medicine

2004 Graduate Travel Award - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Contact Information:

Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection
1501 S. California Avenue
MC 5539 / Rm 2119
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Phone: 650-721-1304
Fax: 650-721-6921
E-mail: tigeren@stanford.edu

Research Interests:

Developments and Applications of multimodal molecular imaging technologies in translational cancer research.

Recent Publications:

  1. Jiang L, Kimura RH, Miao Z, Silverman AP, Ren G, Liu HG, Li PY, Gambhir SS, Cochran JR, Cheng Z. Evaluation of a 64Cu-Labeled Cystine-Knot Peptide Based on Agouti Related Protein for PET of Tumors Expressing αvβ3 Integrin. J Nucl Med. 2010;51(1):251-258.
  2. Liu HG, Ren G, Miao Z, Zhang XF, Tang X, Han PZ, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z*. Molecular Optical Imaging with Radioactive Probes . PLoS one. 2010;5(3):e9479.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009470.
  3. Liu J, Hajibeigi A, Ren G, Lin M, Siyambalapitiyage W, Liu Z, Simpson E, Parkey RW, Sun X, and Öz OK. Retention of the radiotracers 64Cu-ATSM and 64Cu-PTSM in human and murine tumors is influenced by MDR1 protein expression. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2009;50(8):1332-9.
  4. Miao Z, Ren G, Liu H, Jiang L, Kimura RH, Cochran JR, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z. An engineered knottin peptide labeled with 18F for PET imaging of alpha v beta 3 integrin expression. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 2009;20(12):2342-7.
  5. Ren G, Liu Z, Miao Z, Liu H, Subbarayan M, Chin F, Zhang L, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z. PET Imaging of Malignant Melanoma using 18F-labeled Metallopeptides . Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2009;50(11):1865-72.
  6. Ren G, Miao Z, Liu H, Jiang L, Limpa-Amara N, Mahmood A, Gambhir SS, Cheng Z. Melanin-targeted preclinical PET imaging of melanoma metastasis. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2009;50(10):1692-9.
  7. Ren G, Zhang R, Liu Z, Webster J, Miao Z, Gambhir SS, Syud F and Cheng Z. A Novel 2-helix Small Protein Label with 68Ga for PET Imaging of HER-2 Expression. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2009;50(9):1492-9.
  8. Shao Q, Jiang T, Ren G, Cheng Z, Xing BG. Photoactivable Bioluminescent Probes for Imaging Luciferase Activity. Chem. Commun.. 2009;27():4028-30.
  9. Braasch D, Paroo Z, Ren G, Öz OK, Mason R, and Corey D. Biodistribution of phosphodiester and phosphorothioate siRNA. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letter. 2004;14(5):1139-1143.