Lab Members
Principal investigator
H. Charles Manning, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging
Director, Cyclotron Radiochemistry Facility
Scientific Director, Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI)
HCManning@mdanderson.org
Research staff
Allison S. Cohen, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
ASCohen1@mdanderson.org
Dimitra Georgiou, Ph.D.
Laboratory Coordinator
dkgeorgiou@mdanderson.org
Xiaoxia Wen
Laboratory Coordinator
xwen@mdanderson.org
Jianbo Wang, Ph.D.
Research Investigator
jbwang@mdanderson.org
Cong-Dat Pham, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Cpham3@mdanderson.org
Postdoctoral fellows
Seong-Woo Bae, Ph.D.
Sbae2@mdanderson.org
Ryan Coll, Ph.D.
RPColl@mdanderson.org
Students
Ayushi Mohanty
High School Student, Carnegie Vanguard High
School
June 2022 - Present
Project: Combined Drug Efficacy
of EGFR and ASCT2 Inhibitors in Preclinical Models of Colorectal
Cancer (https://openworks.mdanderson.org/sumexp22/80/)
Hawk Azordegan
College Student, University of California - Berkeley
Molecular and Cell Biology B.S. and Data Science B.S.
June 2021 - Present
Projects: Chemical Synthesis of Astatine Labelled ASCT2 Inhibitor Analogue (HA01) as a Radiotherapeutic Agent for Theranostics (https://openworks.mdanderson.org/sumexp22/47/)
NMR-based Metabolic Profiling of Pancreatic Cancer and Response to Glutamine Transport Inhibition (https://openworks.mdanderson.org/sumexp21/235/)
Evan Babb
College Student, Abilene Christian University
June 2022 - Present
Projects: Cyclotron production of positron-emitting metals
Synthesized emissive lanthanide chelators for detecting Cherenkov radiation in a microfluidic device