Fluorescent Imaging in Medicinal Chemistry

Dr. Zhen Cheng is Associate Professor of Radiology and a member of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), BioX program, Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, and Stanford Cancer Center. He currently leads the Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (CMICL) of the MIPS, where he is developing novel molecular probes, non-invasive imaging techniques and bionanotechnology for the early detection and treatment of cancer. Dr. Cheng earned his PhD in Chemistry from University of Missouri-Columbia in 2001 and completed his post-doc training at Harvard Medical School in 2003. Dr. Cheng has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. He has served as a reviewer for several funding agencies including NIH, DOD, DOE, etc. and also as an active reviewer for over 100 research journals.

• Fluorescence Molecular Imaging of Medicinal Chemistry in Cancer.- Organic Fluorescent Probes for Diagnostics and Bio-Imaging.- Inorganic Fluorescent Nanomaterials.- NIR-II fluorescent imaging.- X-Ray Excited Fluorescent Materials for Medical Application.- Fluorescent reporters for drug discovery.- Fluorescent Probes for Diagnostics of β-Galactosidase: From Micro to Macro.- The Present and Future of Optical Imaging Technologies in the Clinic: Diagnosis and Therapy.