Announcements
2024
07/03/24 NIH awards grant (R01 CA285303) to the University of Michigan (PI TD Wang) to join the Consortium for Imaging & Biomarkers (CIB) and investigate "Peptide multimer for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma."
06/28/24 Binit Mallick, PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) joins the Wang Lab as a Research Fellow, and will be developing a head-mounted multi-photon microscope for in vivo brain imaging in freely moving animals. Welcome Binit!
05/08/24 TD Wang presents “Early Detection of Barrett's Neoplasia using Multi-Valent Interactions” at the NCI Rare Cancers Prevention and Interception Virtual Workshop.
05/03/24 Wang Lab publishes Chang TS, Chen J, Kwon RS, Jiang Y, Seibel EJ, Turgeon DK, Wang TD. Targeted detection of Barrett’s neoplasia: A case report. Global Translational Medicine 2024;2223. PMID.
01/27/24 TD Wang chairs Endoscopic Microscopy XIX (Conference 12356) at SPIE Photonics West in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
01/26/24 Wang Lab publishes Jaiswal S, Wang F, Wu X, Chang TS, Shirazi A, Lee M, Dame MK, Spence JR, Wang TD. Near-Infrared In Vivo Imaging of Claudin-1 Expression by Orthotopically Implanted Patient-Derived Colonic Adenoma Organoids. Diagnostics 2024;14:273. PMC10854921.
01/02/24 Wang Lab publishes Li T, Chang TS, Shirazi A, Wu X, Lin WK, Zhang R, Guo JL, Oldham KR, Wang TD. Scaling down the dimensions of a Fabry-Perot polymer film acoustic sensor for photoacoustic endoscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics 2024;S1:S11514. PMC10760494.
2023
11/21/23 US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues US patent 11,819,310 entitled “3-Axis Side-View Confocal Fluorescence Endomicroscope” to the Regents of the University of Michigan.
11/09/23 Wang Lab publishes Li G, Lee M, Chang TS, Yu J, Li H, Duan X, Wu X, Jaiswal S, Feng S, Oldham KR, Wang TD. Wide-field endoscope accessory for multiplexed fluorescence imaging. Scientific Reports 2023;13:19527. PMC10636199.
09/29/23 Wang Lab publishes Wu X, Chen CW, Jaiswal S, Chang TS, Zhang R, Dame MK, Duan Y, Jiang H, Spence JR, Hsieh SY, Wang TD. Near-Infrared Imaging of Colonic Adenomas In Vivo Using Orthotopic Human Organoids for Early Cancer Detection. Cancers 2023;15:4795. PMC10571995.
09/21/23 NIH awards grant (U01 DE033330) to the University of Michigan (PI TD Wang) to join the Advancing Head & Neck Cancer Early Detection Research (AHEAD) and investigate "Advancing On-Slide and Optical Biopsy Tools to Detect High-Risk Oral Pre-Malignancy."
09/11/23 Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP files U.S. Provisional Application No. 63/532,268 entitled "Wide-field MEMS-based endoscope."
07/26/23 Wang Lab publishes Shirazi A, Sahraeibelverdi T, Lee M, Li H, Yu J, Jaiswal S, Oldham KR, Wang TD. Miniaturized side-view dual axes confocal endomicroscope for repetitive in vivo imaging. Biomedical Optics Express 2023;14:4277. PMC10549747.
03/17/23 Shuo Feng presents “Multiplexed targeting of HCC with multimer peptide ligands” at the 5th Steering Committee Meeting for the Translational Liver Cancer (TLC) Consortium at the Luskin Conference Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
03/17/23 Xiaoli Wu presents “Detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using peptide targeting EpCAM” at the 5th Steering Committee Meeting for the Translational Liver Cancer (TLC) Consortium at the Luskin Conference Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
01/31/23 Tse-Shao Chang presents “Fiber-scanning GRIN-lens-based photoacoustic system for early colon cancer detection” in Photons Plus Ultrasound: Imaging and Sensing 2023 at Photonics West 2023, San Francisco, CA.
01/29/23 Ahmad Shirazi presents “The most compact distal scanning dual-axis confocal imaging system for early cancer diagnostics capable of real-time in-vivo imaging” in Endoscopic Microscopy XVIII at Photonics West 2023, San Francisco, CA.
01/29/23 TD Wang chairs Endoscopic Microscopy XVIII (Conference 12356) at SPIE Photonics West in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
2022
08/09/22 US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues US patent 11,406,720 entitled “Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2-specific peptide reagents and methods” to the Regents of the University of Michigan.
06/15/2022 Ruoliu Zhang passes her PhD qualifying exam in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Congrats Ruoliu!
05/25/2022 Lilli Young, a Michigan State University student in human biology, joins Wang lab for an internship in the 2022 Cancer Research Summer Internship Program (CaRSIP) program sponsored by the Rogel Cancer Center.
04/25/22 Dr. Chun-Wei Chen from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan, Taiwan arrives as a Visiting Scholar to learn new methods of molecular imaging for early detection of colorectal cancer, a disease rising rapidly in his country.
04/11/22 Wang Lab publishes Wu X, Meng X, Chang TS, Feng S, Lee M, Jaiswal S, Choi EY, Tran L, Jiang H, Wang TD. Multi-modal imaging for uptake of peptide ligand specific for CD44 by hepatocellular carcinoma. Photoacoustics 2022; 26:100355. PMC9035732.
03/04/22 Wang Lab publishes Chen J, Jiang Y, Chang TS, Rubenstein JH, Kwon RS, Wamsteker EJ, Prabhu A, Zhao L, Appelman HD, Owens SR, Beer DG, Turgeon DK, Seibel EJ, Wang TD. Detection of Barrett’s neoplasia with near-infrared fluorescent heterodimeric peptide: feasibility results from a phase 1 study, Endoscopy 2022;54:1198-1204. PMC9718637.
02/01/22 US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues US patent 11,235,066 entitled “Micelles and methods” to the Regents of the University of Michigan.
01/22/22 TD Wang chairs Endoscopic Microscopy XVII (Conference 11937) at SPIE Photonics West in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
01/07/22 X Wu presents “Multi-modal imaging for uptake of peptide ligand specific for CD44 by hepatocellular carcinoma” at the NCI Translational Liver Consortium Biomarker & Imaging Working Group meeting.
01/04/22 US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issues US patent 11,215,805 entitled “Multi-Photon Endomicroscope for Vertical Cross-Sectional Imaging” to the Regents of the University of Michigan.
