Highlights
2012-March-21, Cheng's Presentation in
Materials Today Virtual Conference "Frontiers of Microscopy":
http://www.materialstoday.com/virtualconference/the-frontiers-of-microscopy
2011-10-6 Ling Tong et al, "label-free imaging of SWNTs in vivo ..." is accepted by Nature Nanotechnology.
2011-8-15 Steve Lee won the 1st poster prize in the Controlled Release Society (CRS) Illinois Student Chapter Symposium.
2011 July 14-15: Multimodal NLO microscopy symposium and hands-on training workshop was successfully held. 80 registered for the symposium, 30 registered for hands-on training in the Cheng lab.
2011-7-7: Our VPA study, published in PRL and funded by NIH, was highlighted by NIH Research Matters
2011-6-20: Our vibrational photoacoustic imaging paper is highlighted by the Science magazine. Click here for details.
2011-6-01 Pu Wang received a 2-year Predocotoral Fellowship from American Heart Association
2011-4-25 Junjie Li won the PULSe outstanding first-year poster award.
2011-3-28 Ji-Xin Cheng and Kinam Park received the 2011 Lafayette Lions Club Award for Outstanding Cancer Research at Purdue.
2011-2-22 Ji-Xin Cheng received the 2011 College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award.
2011-2-20 Our carbon nanotube PRL paper is highlighted in the Feb issue of OPN News, with a picture of Ji-Xin Cheng and Mikhail Slipchenko.
2011-2-18 Han-Wei Wang won Honorable Mention in Engineering Sciences in 2011 Sigma Xi Graduate Student Poster Competition.
2010-12-20 Congratulations to Dr. Yunzhou Shi, Dr. Ling Tong, and Dr. Yookyung Jung for their successful graduation from Purdue. Yunzhou has accepted a postdoc position in Genentech. Yookyung has accepted a postdoc position in Harvard Medical School.
10-30-2010 Cheng lab cancer imaging research is funded by Walther Foundation.
10-18-2010 Yookyung Jung et al, "Fast detection of the metallic state of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes using a transient-absorption optical microscope", was accepted by Physical Review Letters.
8-11-2010 Shuhua Yue received a three-year fellowship from Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Research Program of the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP).
06-22-2010, Cheng group received a translational research award from the Coulter Foundation.
05-14-2010, Shuhua Yue received the First prize at the BCDG poster presentation at Purdue University.
05-01-2010, Thuc Le started his new position as Assistant Professor in Nevada Cancer Institute.
4-30-2010, CARS imaging of demyelination is highlighted by a feature article in Nature Methods.
04-15-2010, Ling Tong received the Amy Mellon Award as a top student in the analytical chemistry division, congratulations to Ling!
04-05-2010, Ling Tong et al's three-photon luninescence study was accepted by Angew Chemie Int Ed as an inside cover.
02-22-2010, Sophia Youzhou Shi received the first place award in the 2010 Sigma Xi graduate student poster competition
11-15-2009, Youzhou Shi received Ronald W. Dollens Graduate Scholarship from Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
11-11-2009, Shi et al, "Bock copolymer micelles effectively repair traumatically injured spinal cord white matter”, published in Nature Nanotechnology, is reported by Daily Mail.
11-10-2009 Shi et al, "Bock copolymer micelles effectively repair traumatically injured spinal cord white matter”, is published in Nature Nanotechnology, is reported by abc NEWS.
11-9-2009, Yunzhou Shi et al, "Bock copolymer micelles effectively repair traumatically injured spinal cord white matter”, is published in Nature Nanotechnology online. see Purdue News report.
10-19-2009, Ling Tong received a poster award in the Seventh International Nanomedicine and Drug Delivery Symposium, Indianapolis
8-19-2009, Han-Wei Wang et al. "Imaging and quantitative analysis of atherosclerotic lesions ...", is featured in front cover of ATVB.
7-4-2009, Hongtao Chen accepted a new position of Assistant Project Scientist in UC Irvine.
7-6-2009, Youtube Video: High-fat diet enhances tumor spread (click it).
6-29-2009, CARS & SRS Microscopy featured in Chemical & Engineering News.
6-15-2009, Congratulations to Han-Wei Wang who received a two-year fellowship from American Heart Association.
6-15-2009, Han-Wei Wang et al, "NLO imaging of atherosclerotic plaques", published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, is featured in MDLinx, http://www.mdlinx.com/heartlinx/news-article.cfm/2752811
5-21-2009, Jung et al. "In vitro and in vivo imaging of silicon nanowires" highlighted by C&EN News.
4-15-2009, Congratulations to Hongtao Chen for receiving a Schering-Plough award.
3-16-2009 Thuc Le, Ji-Xin Cheng, “Single-Cell Profiling Reveals the Origin of Phenotypic Variability in Adipogenesis”, Plos ONE, is highlighted in C&EN News
3-13-2009, Congratulations to Shuhua Yue for receiving a NIH fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Cancer Prevention Research Internship Program.
2-27-2009, Congratulations to Ling Tong for receiving a 2009-10 Bilsland Dissertation Year Fellowship.
2-25-2009, Purdue News Report: New findings measure precise impact of fat on cancer spread
11-27-2008, Congratulations to Hongtao Chen for receiving a Jonathon and Ruthanna Amy Travel Award from Department of Chemistry.
8-28-2008, Congratulations to Han-Wei Wang for receiving a Ronald W. Dollens Graduate Scholarship from Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
8-20-2008, Congratulations to Shuhua Yue for receiving a Joe Bourland Travel award to the BMES meeting.
5-4-2008, Congratulations to Yunzhou Shi for receiving an Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for being an excellent TA in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.
5-2-2008, our PNAS paper on micelle study "Release of Hydrophobic Molecules from Polymer Micelles into Cell Membranes Revealed by Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging" is reported by Purdue News Office.
2-17-2008, our nanorod-mediated photothermolysis work was highlighted in Laser Focus World: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/318550/12/none/none/News/MEDICAL-THERAPEUTICS:-Lasers-and-nanorods-combat-cancer
2-7-2008 Hongtao chen et al. "Fast release of lipophilic agents from circulating PEG-PDLLA micelles revealed by in vivo Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging", was selected as a front cover story in Langmuir.
12-21-2007 Hongtao Chen et al. "Cholesterol Level Regulates Endosome Mobility via Rab Proteins" has been chosen to appear on the February 15 cover of Biophysical Journal.
12-20-2007 Ling Tong received a pre-doctoral fellowship from American Heart Association. Congratulations to Ling!
12-11-2007 Haifeng Wang accepted an assistant professor position in National University of Singapore. Congratulations to Haifeng!
11-15-2007 T.B. Huff, Y. Shi, Y. Yan, H. Wang, J. X. Cheng, “Multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy and applications to central nervous system imaging”, accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (invited paper).
11-2-2007, Le et al. "Label-free molecular imaging of atherosclerotic lesions using multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy," published in Journal of Biomedical Optics 12, 054007 (2007), was selected for the October 15, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. Visit http://www.vjbio.org .
7-01-2007, Yan Fu et al's demyelination work is reported by National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109661
7-01-2007, Eunah Kang et al's paper, "Paclitaxel distribution in poly(ethylene glycol) / poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) blends and its release visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy Journal of Controlled Release", is reported by www.spectroscopyNOW.com
6-25-2007, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", focal point article, is accepted by Applied Spectroscopy.
5-11-2007, Yunzhou Shi received a Travel award from National Neurotrauma Society for her presentation in the 2007 National Neurotrauma Society meeting. Congratulations to Yunzhou!
4-30-2007, Yan Fu, Haifeng Wang, Riyi Shi, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Noninvasive Molecular Imaging of Intact Myelin Sheath by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", is reported by American Laboratory and American Biotechnology Laboratory as a feature article.
3-30-2007, Thuc Le received an Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award from NIH. Congratulations to Thuc!
3-20-2007, Haifeng Wang, Yan Fu, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Experimental observation and theoretical analysis of Raman resonance-enhanced photodamage in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B 24, 544 (2007), has been selected to Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science http://www.vjultrafast.org and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research http://www.vjbio.org.
3-1-2007, Our multimodal NLO image of myelin sheath and asltrogilal processes was chosen as the cover of the May issue of Biophysical Journal. Congratulations to Yan and Haifeng. See picture here.
2-1-2007, Our in vivo CARS image is selected as the cover of the Feb issue of Journal of Microscopy. See picture here.
7-24-2006.
Our article, "Coherent
anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging with a laser source delivered by a photonic
crystal fiber," published in Optics Letters 31, 1417 (2006), has been
selected for the July 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
10-21-05.
Our paper "in vitro and in vivo two-photon luminescence imaging of single gold
nanorods" is published in PNAS online with a front-page news report. see
http://www.pnas.org/misc/highlights.shtml