User:Guanshu Liu

Guanshu Liu, Ph.D. currently is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the F.M. Kirby Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Liu earned his doctoral degree in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. His research interest is the development of new MR molecular imaging technologies and synergizing them with start-of-art nanomedicine to improve the early diagnosis and therapy of cancer. His laboratory currently is focusing on the development and biomedical application of a new MRI contrast mechanism, so-called Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MRI, that can make bioorganic and biocompatible compounds MRI visible. With the power of this new MRI technology, he and his colleagues have invented a variety of multifunctional nanoparticle systems, that can be tracked with MRI without the need for metallic- or radioactive- labeling, for a broad spectrum of biomedical applications and, more importantly, with a great potential to be rapidly translated into the clinic. He has more than thirty original research articles, book chapters and review articles, and eight patents or invention discourses.