THE TRAINERS

  • Highly multidisciplinary program by nature requires a diverse faculty
  • Sixteen trainers representing nine departments and four different UC Davis schools
    • Engineering
    • Letters & Sciences
    • Medicine
    • Veterinary Medicine

Ramsey Badawi Ramsey Badawi, Ph.D.
Major Research Interests:
Positron Emission Tomography – data quality metrics, data normalization, imaging system simulation, use PET and PECT/CT in clinical trials.
John Boone John M. Boone
Major Research Interests:
Novel x-ray detector systems for digital radiography and digital mammography; dual (x-ray) energy radiographic imaging and image processing.
Website: Boone Lab
Simon Cherry

Simon R. Cherry
Major Research Interests:
Molecular imaging technology, particularly positron emission tomography, multi-modality imaging systems, gamma and x-ray detector technology,3-D image reconstruction and use of imaging techniques in phenotyping and drug development.
Website: Cherry Lab

Roy Curry
Fitz-Roy E. Curry
Theoretical and experimental studies of the regulation of the transport of water and solutes across the walls of microvessels; experimental studies involving the cannulation and perfusion of individual microvessels.
Website: Curry Lab
Katherine W. Ferrara

Katherine W. Ferrara
Major Research Interests:
Signal and imaging processing, medical imaging, ultrasound, acoustics, optics, fluid mechanics.
Website: Ferrara Lab

J. Kent Leach

J. Kent Leach
Major Research Interests:
Cellular and tissue manipulation, drug delivery, gene therapy, biomaterials, in vivo imaging.
Website: Leach Lab

Angie Louie

Angelique Louie
Major Research Interests:
Molecular imaging, cellular imaging, development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents, magnetic resonance imaging, novel contrast agents, fluorescence microscopy, biochemistry of the aging eye, retinal function.
Website: Louie Lab

Laura Marcu

Laura Marcu
Major Research Interests:
In vivo optical spectroscopy and imaging for enhanced detection of disease in human tissue (cancer, cardiovascular); fluorescence-based minimally invasive medical diagnostics technology; high spatial – and time – resolution optical techniques for molecular imaging; optical bioMEMS; bionanophotonics: nanocrystals applications to molecular imaging.
Website: Marcu Lab

Claude Meares Meares, Claude F.
Major Research Interests:
Bioconjugate chemistry, molecular biology, application of chemical techniques to biological and biomedical problems, mapping protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, bifunctional chelating agents, engineered antibodies.
Tony Passerini

Tony Passerini
Major Research Interests:
Cardiovascular genomics; pathology of atherosclerosis; vascular hemodynamics; endothelial cell mechanotransduction; vascular device intervention and failure; genomics, proteomics and high-throughput screening technologies.
Website: Passerini Lab

Jinyi Qi

Jinyi Qi
Major Research Interests:
Molecular imaging, signal and image processing, image reconstruction, image quality evaluation, system modeling and optimization, inverse problems.
Website: Qi Lab

Alexander Revzin

Alexander Revzin
Major Research Interests:
Microfabrication and nanotechnology for manipulation and analysis of cellular systems; single cell manipulation; biosensors for monitoring activity of individual cells; combinatorial screening of cell-microenvironment interactions; BioMEMS; biomaterials; surface science.
Website: Revzin Lab

Scott Simon

Scott I. Simon
Major Research Interests:
Biomechanics of cells and tissues, neutrophil biology, vascular engineering, particularly with respect to inflammatory disease; fluorescence flow cytometry.
Website: Simon Lab

Erik Wisner

Wisner, Erik
Major Research Interests:
Tissue specific contrast media development
Targeting mechanisms for contrast media delivery
Molecular Imaging





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