Congratulations, Dr. Rebekah Drezek! She has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
The membership recognizes her achievements in bionanotechnology and molecular imaging, which have led to techniques for the early detection of breast and ovarian cancers. AIMBE fellows represent the top 2 percent of professionals in the field of medical and biological engineering. Read more in this story here.
November 03 2008 | News
Congratulations to Ying!
A paper he co-authored on modeling NP photothermal bubble scattering was accepted to Nanomedicine.
Also, Ying was cited in an Optics Express paper titled “Optical trapping of coated microspheres.” The paper is an experimental investigation extending some of Ying’s modeling work.
September 26 2008 | News
Fu, K., Sun, J., Bickford, L., Lin, A., Halas, N., Yu, TK, and Drezek, R. “Measurement of Immunotargeted Plasmonic Nanoparticle’s Cellular Binding: A Key Factor in Optimizing Diagnostic Efficacy.” Nanotechnology. 19: 045103 (2008).
Lewinski, N., Colvin, V., and Drezek, R. “Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticles.” Small. 4(1): 26-49. DOI 10.1002/sml2007.00595 (2008). Most Accessed Article – Small.
Bickford, L., Chang, J., Fu, K., Sun, J., Hu, Y., Gobin, A., Yu, TK, and Drezek, R. “Evaluation of Immunotargeted Gold Nanoshells as Rapid Diagnostic Imaging Agents for HER2-Overexpressing Breast Cancer Cells: A Time-Based Analysis.” Nanobiotechnology. Published online (5/13/2008).
Bickford, L., Hu, Y., Sun, J., Fu, K., Day, E., Lewinski, N., Chang, J., Yu, TK, and Drezek, R. “Biomedical Applications of Gold Nanoshells.” Biomedical Nanotechnology: Materials for Nanomedicine, edited by Mansoor M. Amiji, RPh, PhD, and Vladimir P. Torchilin, DSc, PhD (Pan Stanford Publishing). In press (2008).
Sun, J., Fu, K., Bickford, L., Post, E., and Drezek, R. “Lead Sulfide Near-Infrared Quantum Dot Contrast Agents for Fluorescence Tissue Imaging: Tissue Phantom Study.” Journal of Nanoparticle Research. In revision after review (2007).
Zhang, S., Gao, J., Wang, Z., Drezek, R., and Yu, K. “Radiation Enhancement in Solutions Containing Gold Nanoparticles: A Monte Carlo study.” Journal of Radiation Oncology. In review (2008).
Bickford, L., Sun, J., Fu, K., Lewinski, N., Nammalvar, V., Chang, J., Drezek, R. “Enhanced Multi-Spectral Imaging of Live Breast Cancer Cells Using Immunotargeted Gold Nanoshells and Two-Photon Excitation Microscopy.” Nanotechnology. 19: 315102 (6pp) doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/31/315102 (2008).
Hleb, E., Hu, Y., Drezek, R., Hafner, J., and Lapotko, D. “Nanoparticle Clusters and Photothermal Bubbles as Optical Scattering Cellular Probes.” Small. (In review - 2009).
July 25 2008 | News
Rebekah Drezek:
Invited to speak in plenary session, SPIE Photonics West
Article listed among Top 10 Most Cited Papers in the Field of Materials Science (2005-2008), Scopus
National Academy of Science German Frontiers of Science (1 of 37 US scientists invited to attend, will be rescheduled due to schedule conflict)
American Society for Photobiology Young Investigator Award
Rice University Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Teaching and Scholarship
Rice University Presidential Mentoring Award
Outstanding Young Alumni Award, The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering, 1 of 22 alumni honored to date out of >20,000
Nano Letters paper published in 2007 listed as ISI “Hot Paper”
Small article listed as #1 on Most Accessed Article list by publisher Wiley Interscience
Optical Society of America, Biomedical Nanotechnology, Program Chair
Invited Speaker:
IEEE International LEOS Meeting, Mexico
American Society of Photobiology
Quantum Dots for Biomedical Applications, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA
Nanomedicine, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA
MD Anderson Cancer Center Interventional Radiology Seminar Series, Nanotechnology
July 25 2008 | News
Jiantang Sun
His work on PbS qdots has been accepted to OSA’s Frontiers in Optics conference. (July 2008)
Lissett Bickford:
Optical Society of America Biomedical Optics Best Poster Award
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program in Breast Cancer Predoctoral Traineeship
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
SPIE Scholarship Award
Nastassja Lewinski:
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
NNEMS (Nanotechnology) Fellowship
Ying Hu:
DOE Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship
SPIE Scholarship Award
Amneet Gulati:
SPIE Scholarship Award
July 24 2008 | News
Dennis Cox, professor of statistics, and Rebekah Drezek, associate professor in bioengineering and electrical and computer engineering, are this year’s winners of the Presidential Mentoring Award, given annually to Rice faculty members who demonstrate a strong commitment to mentoring graduate or undergraduate students. Read more here.
May 08 2008 | News
Spring is doubly delightful for Rice professors Rebekah Drezek and Michelle “Mikki” Hebl, who not only earned honors in other categories but will also share this year’s Charles W. Duncan Jr. Achievement Award for Outstanding Faculty, which recognizes accomplishment in scholarship and teaching. Read more here.
May 08 2008 | News
