Molecular Imaging Faculty

Biomedical Physics Interdepartmental Graduate Program

David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA


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Program Overview
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Faculty
   Molecular Imaging
   Medical Imaging
   Radiation Biology & Exper.
     Radiation Therapy

   Therapeutic Med. Physics
Students
   Current Students
   Recent Graduates
   Awards
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Supporting Department Sites

Molecular and Medical
    Pharmacology

Radiation Oncology
Radiological Sciences

 

DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR AND MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Jorge R. Barrio

JORGE R. BARRIO, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR

Local organ metabolism with radiopharmaceuticals labeled with positron emitters

jbarrio@mednet.ucla.edu

ARION CHATZIIOANNOU, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Development of high resolution in vivo molecular imaging technology, based around Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

rchatziioann@mednet.ucla.edu

MAGNUS DAHLBOM, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR; FACULTY GRADUATE ADVISOR

Positron Emission Tomography instrumentation

mdahlbom@mednet.ucla.edu

THOMAS GRAEBER, Ph. D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Physics/Computational Biology: Systems biology of cancer signaling, identification of targets for molecular diagnostics, imaging, and therapy.

tgraeber@mednet.ucla.edu

DAVID A. HOVDA, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR, Surgery – Neurology

Basic and clinical research in brain injury, including PET of brain injured subjects

dhovda@mednet.ucla.edu

HENRY SUNG-CHENG HUANG, D.Sc.
PROFESSOR

Tracer kinetic modeling, Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

hhuang@mednet.ucla.edu

JOHN C. MAZZIOTTA, M.D., Ph.D.
PROFESSOR

In vivo cerebral biochemistry hemodynamics and pharmacology in health and disease using radiotracers

mazz@loni.ucla.edu

WILLIAM P. MELEGA, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Basal ganglia neurochemistry: drug abuse, neurodegeneration, and neuronal plasticity studies with PET

wmelega@mednet.ucla.edu

INGO K. MELLINGHOFF, M. D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Identifying molecular signatures that predict and/or indicate a biological response to targeted cancer therapeutics

imellinghoff@mednet.ucla.edu

MICHAEL E. PHELPS, Ph.D.
CHAIR;
JENNIFER JONES, NORTON SIMON PROFESSOR

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) biochemical studies of cerebral and myocardial function in man and animals

mphelps@mednet.ucla.edu

NAGICHETTIAR SATYAMURTHY, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR

Synthesis of radiopharmaceutical labeled with short-lived positron emitters

nsaty@mednet.ucla.edu

HEINRICH SCHELBERT, M.D., Ph.D.
PROFESSOR

Regional myocardial tissue function in animals and man by (PET)

hschelbert@mednet.ucla.edu

DANIEL H. SILVERMAN, M.D., Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR
ASSOCIATE CHIEF, BIOLOGICAL IMAGING
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ALTZHEIMER’S DISEASE CENTER IMAGING CORE

Neuronuclear Imaging; noninvasive cancer evaluation

dsilver@ucla.edu

HSIAN-RONG TSENG, Ph. D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Developing nanowire-based sensor arrays for label-free, realtime and high-throughput detection of molecular signatures in biological systems

hrtseng@mednet.ucla.edu

WOLFGANG WEBER, M. D.
ASSOCIATE CLINICAL PROFESSOR

Molecular Imaging Mice to Patients: Molecular imaging probes for diagnostics

wweber@mednet.ucla.edu

ANNA M. WU, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR

Biomolecules for targeting cancer; radioimmunoimaging and radioimmunotherapy; PET and optical imaging

awu@mednet.ucla.edu

CHRISTINE WU, Ph. D.
ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Quantitative aspects of positron emission tomography (PET) technology

cwu@mednet.ucla.edu


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