Extra Rudbeck seminar – Weibo Cai

Weibo Cai is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Radiology, Medical Physics, Materials Science & Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA. His research is focused on three areas: 1) development of multimodality molecular imaging agents; 2) molecular therapy of cancer; and 3) nanotechnology and its biomedical applications. In 2024, Prof. Cai was named the #1 expert in Molecular Imaging worldwide from 2013-2023 by Expertscape. He has authored >410 peer-reviewed articles (total citation: >43,000 times; h-index: 107), edited 3 books, and given >380 talks. Prof. Cai has received many awards, including the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Springer Prize (2011 & 2013), American Cancer Society Research Scholar (2013-2017), EANM Annual Congress Plenary Lecturer (2016), Inaugural Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) in Nanobiotechnology Award (2018), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE, 2018), Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytics (Cross-Field, 2018), Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI, 2019), Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, 2021), SNMMI Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council’s Michael J. Welch Award (2022), Journal of Nanobiotechnology (JNB) Trailblazer Award (BMC/Springer Nature, 2022), among others.

Profile: https://radiology.wisc.edu/profile/weibo-cai-448/ ; https://mi.wisc.edu/bio.htm

Research: https://mi.wisc.edu/research.htm