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Maryam Ahmadi Shapourabadi
Social Science Research Scholar, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
Current Role at StanfordResearch Scolar
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So Hee "Naomi" Ahn
Casual, Medicine - Med/Family and Community Medicine
BioNaomi is a fourth-year medical student at Seoul National University, expecting to graduate in February 2024. She earned her bachelor's degree Summa Cum Laude from Washington University in St. Louis in December 2018, majoring in Biology and minoring in Chinese Language & Culture. Although she has quite a long way to go before becoming a compassionate physician-scientist, Naomi has accumulated many years of research and clinical experience in the field of medicine, ranging from the molecular level to the population level. Her research interests lie in genomics, psychosomatic medicine, and global health.
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Israt Alam
Senior Research Scientist-Basic Life, Rad/Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
BioResearch Focus and interests: Molecular Imaging, Clinical Translation, Graft versus Host Disease, Spatial Biology, Immune-Theragnostics
Dr. Israt Alam is a Senior Scientist in the Radiology Department at Stanford University. She trained in Prof. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir's lab and transitioned to Dr. Michelle James' lab in 2021. Her research focuses on studying lymphocyte activation with the motivation of developing non-invasive imaging tools, to monitor immune dynamics in response to cancer immunotherapy and in immunopathology. Her work has supported the clinical translation of several nuclear imaging agents (small molecules and a biologic) for early detection of cancer and prediction of treatment response, that are being evaluated in oncology trials around the world. She is currently leading the IND-enabling studies for a first in class PET tracer for T cell activation and has also supported several biomarker detection platforms for early disease detection. She was elected as Co-Chair of the "Imaging in cell and immune therapies" (ICIT) interest group for the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS).
Key funding: (grant conceptualization/scientific lead): NIH/NCI R01, Pfizer Inc., SNMMI Education and Research Foundation
Appointments:
-Senior Research Scientist, James Lab, Department of Radiology, Stanford
-Life Sciences Research Associate, Gambhir Lab, Department of Radiology, Stanford
-Post-Doctoral Scholar, Gambhir Lab, Department of Radiology, Stanford
-Churchill Travel Fellow in the Plateforme d'imagerie dynamique lab of Prof. Spencer Shorte, Pasteur Institute, Paris
-Science Education Consultant: United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
-Science Education Intern: United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris
