September 2008
Joseph Wu receives the 2008 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
August 2008
Research by the Wu Lab on the potential of stem cell rejection is featured in Scientific American news. The article highlights our study on the use of noninvasive molecular imaging technique to track the fate of transplanted hESCs and monitor the effects of immunosuppressant therapy
July 2008
Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging
June 2008
Zongjin Li has been awarded the Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his proposal entitled "Molecular Imaging of Stem Cell Differentiation and Function"
March 2008
Zongjin Li has received the ACCF/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award from the American College of Cardiology
January 2008
Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
November 2007
October 2007
Research by the Wu Lab in quantum dot imaging is featured in Nanowerk. The article highlights our study on the utility of quantum dots for imaging stem cell therapy
June 2007
Kitch Wilson received the prestigious Stanford Bio-X Program Graduate Student Fellowship to support his innovative proposal on a project looking at microenvironmental niches of stem cell homing
May 2007
Mei Huang received a 2-year American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dr. Wu was awarded BWF Career Awards at the Biomedical Sciences
March 2007
Feng Cao received the 2006 Best Basic Science paper in journal of Circulation for her paper, "In Vivo Visualization of Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Migration After Cardiac Delivery"
June 2005
Feng Cao was awarded an American Society of Nuclear Cardiology grant in cardiovascular molecular imaging