Lab News
Juy 2023
Syamantak Khan has been awarded a K99 Pathway to Independence grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to pursue research towards improving the treatment of head-and-nack cancers. The project will utilize novel organoid models to individualize therapy according to specific imaging biomarkers. Congrats Syamantak!
June 2023
Hieu Nguyen has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Jack Krohmer Early-Career Investigator Award by the AAPM. The award is based on abstracts submitted to the Scientific Program of the AAPM Annual Meeting, judged according to criteria of significance, innovation, and the potential for major scientific impact in an area of cutting edge interest in medical physics. Congrats Hieu!
Dec 2022
Hieu Nguyen has been selected as a fellow of the Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) program, an NIH-funded training program focused on cancer molecular imaging. Congrats Hieu!
July 2022
The lab was featured in a news article for their work developing novel PET imaging strategy for biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT)
October 2022
Hieu and Syamantak were awarded travel awards by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to attend a scientific conference that will expand the scope of their current research. Congratulations!