Wellington Pham, Ph.D.

Position: Assistant Professor in Radiology

Department: Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Lab Url: N/A

Email: wellington.pham@vanderbilt.edu

Office Address: 1161 21st Avenue South
Office Address2: MCN AA-1105
Nashville , TN 37232-2310
Phone :(615) 936-7621
Fax: (615) 322-0734

Lab Address: AAA-3117 Medical Center North/VUIIS


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  Wellington Pham, Ph.D.
Patient Care Specialty
Molecular Imaging Probes, Cancer Research, Drug Delivery

Research Specialty
Develop molecular probes for detection of cancer using Optical, MRI and PET imaging modalities

Publications
Kobukai S, Baheza R, Cobb J, Virostko J, Xie JP, Gillman A, Koktysh D, Kerns D, Does M, Gore JC and Pham W. Magnetic Nanoparticles for Imaging Dendritic Cells. Magn Reson Med, , , 2009 (in press)

Nolting DD, Nickels M, Price R, Gore JC, Pham W. Synthesis of Bicyclo[5.3.0]Azulene Derivatives. Nat Protoc, 4, 1113-1117, 2009

Pham W, Kobukai S, Hotta C, Gore J. Dendritic Cells: Therapy and Imaging. Expert Opin Biol Ther, 9(5), 539-564, 2009

Pham W, Cassell L, Gillman A, Koktysh D and Gore JC. A Near-Infrared Dye for Multichannel Imaging. Chem Commun, 16, 1895-1897, 2008

Medarova Z, Pham W, Farrar C, Petkova V, Moore A. In Vivo Imaging of siRNA Delivery and Silencing in Tumors. Nat Med, 13(3), 372-377, 2007

Pham W, Xie JP and Gore JC. Tracking The Migration of Dendritic Cells By In Vivo Optical Imaging. Neoplasia, 9(12), 1130-1137, 2007

Medarova Z, Pham W, Kim Y, Dai G, Moore A. In Vivo Imaging of Tumor Response to Therapy Using a Dual-Modality Imaging Strategy. Int. J. Cancer, 118, 2796-2802, 2006

Pham W, Pantazopoulos P, Moore A. Imaging Farnesyl Protein Transferase Using a Topologically Activated Probe. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128(36), 11736-11737, 2006

Pham W, Medarova Z, Moore A. . Synthesis and application of a water-soluble near-infrared dye for cancer detection using optical imaging. Bioconjugate Chem., 16, 735-740, 2005

Pham W, Zhao BQ, Lo EH, Medarova Z, Rosen B, Moore A. . Crossing the blood-brain barrier: a potential application of myristoylated polyarginine for in vivo neuroimaging. Neuroimage, 28, 287-292, 2005

Chen JW, Pham W, Weissleder R, Bogdanov A, Jr. Human myeloperoxidase: a potential target for molecular MR imaging in atherosclerosis. Magn. Reson. Med. , 52, 1021-1028, 2004

Pham W, Choi Y, Weissleder R, Tung CH. Developing a peptide-based near-infrared molecular probe for protease sensing. Bioconjugate Chem. (Special feature on imaging chemistry), 15, 1403-1407, 2004

Pham W, Kircher MF, Weissleder R, Tung CH. Enhancing membrane permeability by fatty acylation of oligoarginine peptides. Chembiochem. , 5, 1148-1151, 2004

Pham W, Lai WF, Weissleder R, Tung CH. High efficiency synthesis of a bioconjugatable near-infrared fluorochrome. Bioconjugate Chem. , 14, 1048-1051, 2003

Pham W, Weissleder R, Tung C-H. A practical approach for the preparation of monofunctional azulenyl squaraine dye. Tetrahedron Lett. , 44, 3975-3978, 2003

Pham W, Weissleder R, Tung C-H. An azulene dimer as a near-infrared quencher. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 41, 3659-3662, 2002

Pham W, Weissleder R, Tung C-H. Intermolecular [8+2] cycloaddition reactions of 2H-3-methoxycarbonylcyclohepta[b]furan-2-one with vinyl ethers. Tetrahedron Lett. , 43, 19-20, 2001

Krishnan V, Pham W, Messer WS, Jr., Peseckis SM. First fatty acylated dipeptides to affect muscarinic receptor ligand binding. Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. , 9, 3363-3368, 1999


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Updated Date
11/18/2009

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