Cancer Theranostics

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, is a Senior Investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (LOMIN) at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is also founding editor of journal Theranostics. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Idaho. Dr. Zhang is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles (more than 15 peer-reviewed articles in top-ranking journal JNM) in the most reputed scientific journals in the respective field. She was awarded the prestigious Thomas O’Dorisio Young Investigator Award (only 1 awardee every two years world-wide), one of TOP thirty early career professionals who stand out as “Ones to Watch” by the SNMMI, as well as Majd-Gilday Investigator Award from SNMMI, etc., and serves on the editorial board of Clin Nucl Med (IF 10.782) and is the only editorial board member from Singapore. She currently serves as Dean of Research of International Centers for Precision Oncology (ICPO) Academy, Germany Stephen T.C. Wong, PhD (Computer Science), PE (Electrical Engineering), is John S. Dunn Distinguished Endowed Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Houston Methodist Hospital, the Founding Chair of Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute, and a Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.

1. Cancer theranostics – An updated introduction

Part 1: In Vitro Diagnostics
2. Tissue specimen and liquid biopsy testing for cancer diagnostics
3. Circulating tumor cells and cancer associated fibroblasts in IVD of cancer
4. Extracellular vesicle-based IVD of cancer
5. Non-coding RNAs in cancer diagnosis
6. Circulating tumor DNA technology in cancer diagnosis
7. Nanotechnology in IVD of cancer

Part 2: Anatomical, Functional and Molecular Imaging in Cancer Theranostics
8. Radionuclide imaging of cancer
9. Luminescence imaging of cancer
10. MRI and MPI of cancer
11. Ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of cancer
12. Raman spectroscopy and imaging for cancer diagnosis
13. OCT and OCE of cancer
14. Artificial intelligence in cancer imaging

Part 3 Image-Guided Cancer Therapy
15. Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) of cancer
16. Image-guided surgery (IGS) of cancer
17. Image-guided thermal ablation of cancer
18. Image-guided cancer drug delivery

Part 4: Theranostics Platforms
19. Radiotheranostics
20. Magnetotheranostics
21. Immunotheranostics
22. Optotheranostics
23. Sonotheranostics
24. RNA theranostics
25. DNA theranostics

Part 5: Production, regulations and translations of theranostics
26. Scale-up production of theranostic formulas
27. Clinical translation and regulations of theranostics