Anna Wu Lab

Jennifer Chean graduated from the University of California Irvine with a Bachelor of Science in biology. She has experience in cell and molecular biology. Her current research focus is antibody production and purification for use in molecular imaging.
 
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Shichang Li, Ph.D., M.S., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Anna Wu Lab at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. His current research focuses on the development of novel antibody fragment based immunoPET probe for radioimmunotherapy.
 
Li received his Bachelor of Science in biological science from Shenzhen University in 2012. He obtained a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at University of Texas, Dallas, where he holds a Master of Science and started the research focused on structural and functional characterization of transcription factor.
 
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Deirdre La Placa received a Bachelor of Science in biology from University of New Mexico. She has been working in the field for more than 20 years, including at a toxicology company in the Boston area, a pharmacology lab at the University of California San Diego and the Department of Immunology here at City of Hope. In her current role as lab manager, she creates and maintains all lab inventories and manages multiple IACUC protocols. Her research focuses on the imaging of radiolabeled antibodies in mice.
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Research Focus: 

• Antibody engineering
• Antibody fragment-based theranostics: radiolabeled antibodies for immunoPET and radioimmunotherapy of cancer
• Dual-modality immunoPET/fluorescence imaging for surgical guidance in prostate and pancreatic cancer
• Development of anti-CD20 immunoPET for imaging of B lymphocytes