The Cai Laboratory
Faculty > Weibo Cai
Weibo Cai
Assistant Professor, Radiology & Medical Physics
Research Description
Research of the Cai Group is focused on three areas: 1) development of multimodality molecular imaging agents; 2) nanotechnology and its biomedical applications; and 3) molecular therapy of cancer.
Personalized medicine is the future of 21st century patient management and molecular imaging can play pivotal roles in disease diagnosis, treatment efficacy assessment, and drug development. In addition, molecular imaging is an extremely powerful tool in multiple disciplines of biomedical research including regenerative medicine. The imaging techniques routinely used in our research include positron emission tomography (PET), bioluminescence, fluorescence, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Selected References
Liu Z, Cai W, He L, Nakayama N, Chen K, Sun X, Chen X, Dai H. In-vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumor targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice. Nature Nanotechnology, 2007, 2, 47-52.
Cao F, Li Z, Lee A, Liu Z, Chen K, Wang H, Cai W, Chen X, Wu JC. Noninvasive de novo imaging of human embryonic stem cell-derived teratoma formation. Cancer Research, 2009, 69, 2709-2713.
Hong H, Yang Y, Zhang Y, Cai W. Non-invasive imaging of human embryonic stem cells. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, 2010, 11, 685-692.
Hong H, Yang Y, Zhang Y, Cai W. Non-invasive cell tracking in cancer and cancer therapy. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 2010, 10, 1237-1248.
Cai W, Zhang Y, Kamp TJ. Imaging of induced pluripotent stem cells: from cellular reprogramming to transplantation. Am J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011;1(1):18-28