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Graduate student KM Ryan in the Clark lab and postdoctoral scholar Dr. Yingqing Lu in the van Dam Lab presented their work at talks at the 2025 World Molecular Imaging Congress.
The van Dam lab with first author Dr. Yingqing Lu published a manuscript entitled "Rapid Concentration of Ga-68 and Proof-of-Concept Microscale Labeling of [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 in a Droplet Reactor."
A book that Dr. van Dam co-edited and in which his lab contributed three chapters – Automated Technologies for the Development and Production of Radiopharmaceuticals – was recently published.
Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Yingqing Lu in the van Dam Lab was awarded an ISRS travel award and a Crump Institute travel award to present her work at a talk at the 2025 International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences meeting.
Drs. Ikotun, Clark, and Xu were awarded Crump Shared Resource vouchers.
Drs. Clark, Chatziiouannou, and van Dam were awarded a Crump Institute Seed Grant.
Drs. Xu, van Dam and Wen (in the department of Microbiology Immunology & Molecular Genetics) were awarded a Crump Institute Seed Grant.
An ARPA-H grant was awarded to a team of researchers at Stanford University, DropletPharma Corp, and UCLA that included Crump faculty members Drs. Van Dam, Chatziiouannou, and Xu.
Drs. Clark, Chatziiouannou, and van Dam were awarded an NIH R01 grant entitled: “Studying heterogeneity in [¹⁸F]FDG accumulation at the individual cell level using Betabox technology to better understand PET scans of patient tumors"
Crump faculty member Dr. Arion Chatziiouannou was appointed the Director of the Crump Institute.