CCAM Investigator Awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant

CCAM Investigator Awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Grant

CCAM investigator, Stacy Copp, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, has received a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant and will lead a $1.85-million, four-year program to develop molecular-scale emitters for deep-tissue imaging, with collaborators Nathan Gianneschi, a chemist and materials scientist at Northwestern University, and Petko Bogdanov, a computer scientist at the University of Albany (State University of New York). The project aims to enable researchers and medical practitioners to see through cells and bodily tissues without ionizing radiation such as X-rays. Implementation of this project is expected to have direct applications in cancer research and therapeutics development.

This award is part of the Deep Tissue Imaging Phase 2 grant which supports the research and development of advanced medical and biological imaging technologies. The funding is intended to lead to the creation of new tools that go beyond the capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging, computerized tomography and ultrasound to help the medical community obtain a much deeper understanding of biological systems.

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