New Faculty Hires and Promotions: November 26, 2008

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, head of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) has been promoted to associate professor (research) of radiology. Dr. Chen was born in China and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Nanjing University. In 1999, he received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Idaho and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Syracuse University, New York, and another at Washington University, St Louis, before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California as an assistant professor of radiology. In 2004, he joined our Department to help build the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS). His research group currently includes 10 postdoctoral fellows as well as several medical students and visiting scholars. Major areas of Dr. Chen's research include the development of novel molecular imaging probes to visualize and quantify the fundamental molecular processes in cancer and cardiovascular diseases; the application of state-of-the-art imaging technologies to guide and monitor molecular therapeutics; and the application of nanotechnology in molecular cancer diagnostics and therapy.

In addition to his research, Dr. Chen has published over 150 papers and numerous book chapters, and he sits on the editorial board of 10 journals and is a regular reviewer for over 30 journals. He is currently funded through the pharmaceutical industry and two federal government foundations: the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD). He also serves as a regular study section member on multiple foundation panels, such as those of the NIH, DOD, and Susan G. Komen Foundation. Dr. Chen describes his hobbies outside of work as follows: "I am so focused on surviving at Stanford that I have lost pretty much all of my hobbies. I still hope to find some time for Chinese calligraphy, which I have practised for some 20 years."

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