New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 23, 2008

Zhen Cheng, PhD, became an assistant professor (research) of radiology and member of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) in September of 2007. He was an undergraduate at Sichuan University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Dr. Cheng also holds an MS from the National Research Center of Isotope Engineering and Technology & China Institute of Atomic Energy and a PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. From 2001 to 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His awards include a Young Investigator Travel Scholarship to attend the 2005 Academy of Molecular Imaging Annual Conference and a 1997-1998 graduate fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Cheng is currently a member of the Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (CMICL) of MIPS where he is developing novel molecular imaging probes and non-invasive techniques for the early detection of cancer and its metastasis. He is also researching the molecular, metabolic, and physiological characteristics of cancers and their responses to therapy by identifying novel cancer biomarkers with significant clinical relevance; by devising new chemistry for the preparation of probes; and by validating new strategies for probes by using high-throughput screening.

(Image courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)

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