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Sanjiv S. Gambhir was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple intersecting fields with a primary focus on medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and engineering. Subfields they contributed to included biomedical engineering, molecular biology, oncology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and immunology.

Their scholarly work covered diverse topics, notably photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, CAR-T cell therapy research, nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, glioma diagnosis and treatment, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, synthesis and applications of gold and silver nanoparticles, as well as cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism.

Recent publications by Gambhir included:

  • Early detection of cancer, 2022, published in Science
  • Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection, 2020, published in Nature
  • Mitochondrial copper depletion suppresses triple-negative breast cancer in mice, 2020, published in Nature Biotechnology
  • Radiotheranostics: a roadmap for future development, 2020, published in The Lancet Oncology
  • Carbon-coated FeCo nanoparticles as sensitive magnetic-particle-imaging tracers with photothermal and magnetothermal properties, 2020, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering

Frequent coauthors included Israt S. Alam, Gayatri Gowrishankar, Tom Haywood, Ophir Vermesh, and Surya Murty. These collaborations appeared consistently across many publications.

Gambhir's research was frequently published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • ACS Nano

Best Publications

  • Quantum Dots for Live Cells, in Vivo Imaging, and Diagnostics

    X. Michalet;F. F. Pinaud;L. A. Bentolila;J. M. Tsay

  • Molecular imaging in living subjects: seeing fundamental biological processes in a new light

    Tarik F. Massoud;Sanjiv S. Gambhir

  • Nanoparticle PEGylation for imaging and therapy

    Jesse V Jokerst;Tatsiana Lobovkina;Richard N Zare;Sanjiv S Gambhir

  • Molecular imaging of cancer with positron emission tomography.

    Sanjiv Sam Gambhir

  • Carbon nanotubes as photoacoustic molecular imaging agents in living mice.

    Adam De La Zerda;Cristina Zavaleta;Shay Keren;Srikant Vaithilingam

  • A Tabulated Summary of the FDG PET Literature

    Sanjiv S. Gambhir;Johannes Czernin;Judy Schwimmer;Daniel H. S. Silverman

  • Molecular imaging in drug development

    Jürgen K. Willmann;Nicholas van Bruggen;Ludger M. Dinkelborg;Sanjiv S. Gambhir

  • A Molecular Imaging Primer: Modalities, Imaging Agents, and Applications

    Michelle L. James;Sanjiv S. Gambhir

  • Peptide-Labeled Near-Infrared Quantum Dots for Imaging Tumor Vasculature in Living Subjects

    Weibo Cai;Dong-Woon Shin;Kai Chen;Olivier Gheysens

  • A brain tumor molecular imaging strategy using a new triple-modality MRI-photoacoustic-Raman nanoparticle

    Moritz F Kircher;Adam de la Zerda;Jesse V Jokerst;Cristina L Zavaleta

  • Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles as photoacoustic molecular imaging probes in living mice

    Kanyi Pu;Adam J. Shuhendler;Jesse V. Jokerst;Jianguo Mei

  • Positron emission tomography in evaluation of dementia: Regional brain metabolism and long-term outcome.

    Daniel H. S. Silverman;Gary W. Small;Carol Y. Chang;Carolyn S. Lu

  • AMIDE: a free software tool for multimodality medical image analysis.

    Andreas Markus Loening;Sanjiv Sam Gambhir;Sanjiv Sam Gambhir

  • First-in-human liver-tumour surgery guided by multispectral fluorescence imaging in the visible and near-infrared-I/II windows

    Zhenhua Hu;Cheng Fang;Bo Li;Zeyu Zhang;Zeyu Zhang

  • A pilot toxicology study of single-walled carbon nanotubes in a small sample of mice

    Meike L. Schipper;Nozomi Nakayama-Ratchford;Corrine R. Davis;Nadine Wong Shi Kam

  • Noninvasive molecular imaging of small living subjects using Raman spectroscopy

    S Keren;C Zavaleta;Z Cheng;A de la Zerda

  • A mutant herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase reporter gene shows improved sensitivity for imaging reporter gene expression with positron emission tomography

    Sanjiv S. Gambhir;Eileen Bauer;Margaret E. Black;Qianwa Liang

  • In Vivo Visualization of Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Migration After Cardiac Delivery

    Feng Cao;Shuan Lin;Xiaoyan Xie;Pritha Ray

  • Optical imaging of Renilla luciferase reporter gene expression in living mice.

    S. Bhaumik;S. S. Gambhir

  • A brain tumor molecular imaging strategy using a new triple-modality MRI-photoacoustic-Raman nanoparticle

    Adam de la Zerda;Moritz F. Kircher;Moritz F. Kircher;Jesse V. Jokerst;Cristina L. Zavaleta

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhen Cheng
Zhen Cheng Stanford University
Ramasamy Paulmurugan
Ramasamy Paulmurugan Stanford University
Joseph C. Wu
Joseph C. Wu Stanford University
Michael E. Phelps
Michael E. Phelps University of California, Los Angeles
Xiaoyuan Chen
Xiaoyuan Chen National University of Singapore
Lily Wu
Lily Wu University of California, Los Angeles
Jorge R. Barrio
Jorge R. Barrio University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher H. Contag
Christopher H. Contag Michigan State University
Jianghong Rao
Jianghong Rao Stanford University
Robert Sinclair
Robert Sinclair Stanford University

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