Lab Members
Current Members
Jeffrey Collins
Lab Manager and Radiochemist
Projects:
Cyclotron operation and PET tracer production for Crump Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Center
Viviann Do
Lab Assistant
(previously Undergraduate researcher)
Projects:
Applications of radio-UPLC-MS
Travis S. Holloway
Graduate Student (Molecular & Medical Pharmacology)
Senior Fellow, UCLA Technology Development Group
Projects:
Microscale Purification of Radiopharmaceuticals
Reaction Optimization of Microscale Radiosynthesis
Novel Microscale Fluorination Pathways
Radioisotope concentration and scale-up of droplet radiochemistry
Jason Jones
Graduate Student (Physics and Biology in Medicine)
Projects:
Monitoring the composition of droplets in digital microfluidic chips
Radiation detector for MCE analysis of PET tracers
Integrated droplet radiosynthesizer platform
Alex Leal-Doblado
Graduate Student (Physics and Biology in Medicine)
Projects:
High-throughput single-cell radiotracer uptake (metabolism-activated cell-sorting)
Ksenia Lisova
Postdoctoral scholar
(Formerly Graduate Student in Physics and Biology in Medicine)
Projects:
Microfluidic isotopic exchange reactions
Applications of microvolume radiosynthesis
Integrated droplet radiosynthesizer platform
Yingqing (Joanne) Lu
Graduate Student (Physics and Biology in Medicine)
Projects:
High-throughput electrochemical fluorination
Applications of microvolume radiosynthesis
PHENYX microvolume radiosynthesizer
Ryan McGuan
Postdoctoral scholar (UCLA/Caltech integrated Theranostic Engineering to Advance Metabolic Medicine (iTEAM) Fellow)
Projects:
Electro-dewetting microfluidics for radiochemistry
Chelsea Okoro
Undergraduate researcher
Projects:
Microscale purification of radiopharmaceuticals
Reaction Optimization of Microscale Radiosyntheses
Moe Putterman
High-school student volunteer
Projects:
Analysis software for high-throughput radio-TLC
Alejandra Rios
Graduate Student (Physics and Biology in Medicine)
Projects:
High-throughput radio-TLC
High-throughput electrochemical fluorination
Radiolabeling of biomolecules
Khoa Vu
Undergraduate researcher
Projects:
Microfluidic device fabrication
Integrated droplet radiosynthesizer platform
