Weissleder, Ralph, MD, PhD

Ralph_weissleder
Phone: 617-643-3220
Email: rweissleder@mgh.harvard.edu
Lab: Weissleder

Research

Ralph Weissleder serves as the Director of the Center for Systems Biology at MGH. He is a Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging Research, and Attending Clinician (Interventional Radiology) at MGH. Dr. Weissleder is also a member of the Dana Farber Harvard Cancer Center, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute (Chemical Biology Program) and a member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). He is a world leader in applying molecular imaging tools to the study of complex human diseases. He has made fundamental discoveries in early disease detection, development of nanomaterials for sensing and systems analysis. His research has been translational and several of his developments have led to advanced clinical trials.

Dr. Weissleder is currently the principal investigator of several RO1 NIH grants, a P50 Center grant, a U24 grant, and a UO1 consortium focusing on nanotechnology. He has published over 500 publications in peer reviewed journals. His work has been honored with numerous awards including the J. Taylor International Prize in Medicine, the Millenium Pharmaceuticals Innovator Award, the AUR Memorial Award, the ARRS President's Award, The Society for Molecular Imaging Lifetime Achievement Award and the Academy of Molecular Imaging 2006 Distinguished Basic Scientist Award.

Publications

Gounaris E, Tung CH, Restaino C, Maehr R, Kohler R, Joyce JA, Plough HL, Barrett TA, Weissleder R, Khazaie K
Live imaging of cysteine-cathepsin activity reveals dynamics of focal inflammation, angiogenesis, and polyp growth.
PLoS ONE. 2008;3:e2916
Korosoglou G, Weiss RG, Kedziorek DA, Walczak P, Gilson WD, Schar M, Sosnovik DE, Kraitchman DL, Boston RC, Bulte JW, Weissleder R, Stuber M
Noninvasive detection of macrophage-rich atherosclerotic plaque in hyperlipidemic rabbits using positive contrast magnetic resonance imaging.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;52:483-91
Hilderbrand SA, Kelly KA, Niedre M, Weissleder R
Near Infrared Fluorescence-Based Bacteriophage Particles for Ratiometric pH Imaging.
Bioconjug Chem. 2008;:ePub
Sosnovik DE, Nahrendorf M, Weissleder R
Targeted imaging of myocardial damage.
Nat Clin Pract Card. 2008;5 Suppl 2:S63-70
Gee MS, Upadhyay R, Bergquist H, Alencar H, Reynolds F, Maricevich M, Weissleder R, Josephson L, Mahmood U
Human Breast Cancer Tumor Models: Molecular Imaging of Drug Susceptibility and Dosing during HER2/neu-targeted Therapy.
Radiology. 2008;:ePub
Lin KY, Maricevich M, Bardeesy N, Weissleder R, Mahmood U
In vivo quantitative microvasculature phenotype imaging of healthy and malignant tissues using a fiber-optic confocal laser microprobe.
Transl Oncol. 2008;1:84-94
Blois J, Yuan H, Smith A, Pacold ME, Weissleder R, Cantley LC, Josephson L
Slow Self-Activation Enhances The Potency of Viridin Prodrugs.
J Med Chem. 2008;:ePub
Lee H, Sun E, Ham D, Weissleder R
Chip-NMR biosensor for detection and molecular analysis of cells.
Nat Med. 2008;:ePub
Taktak S, Weissleder R, Josephson L
Electrode Chemistry Yields a Nanoparticle-Based NMR Sensor for Calcium.
Langmuir. 2008;24 (14):7596-7598
McCarthy JR, Weissleder R
Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles for targeted imaging and therapy.
Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2008;60:1241-1251
Shaw SY, Westly EC, Pittet MJ, Subramanian A, Schreiber SL, Weissleder R
Perturbational profiling of nanomaterial biologic activity.
P Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008;105:7387-7392
Shah K, Hingtgen S, Kasmieh R, Figueiredo JL, Garcia-Garcia E, Martinez-Serrano A, Breakefield X, Weissleder R
Bimodal viral vectors and in vivo imaging reveal the fate of human neural stem cells in experimental glioma model.
J Neurosci. 2008;28:4406-13
Korosoglou G, Tang L, Kedziorek D, Cosby K, Gilson WD, Vonken EJ, Schar M, Sosnovik D, Kraitchman DL, Weiss RG, Weissleder R, Stuber M
Positive contrast MR-lymphography using inversion recovery with ON-resonant water suppression (IRON).
J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008;27(5):1175-1180
Koh I, Hong R, Weissleder R, Josephson L
Sensitive NMR Sensors Detect Antibodies to Influenza.
Angew Chem Int Edit. 2008;47(22):4119-4121
Kelly KA, Bardeesy N, Anbazhagan R, Gurumurthy S, Berger J, Alencar H, Depinho RA, Mahmood U, Weissleder R
Targeted Nanoparticles for Imaging Incipient Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
PLoS Med. 2008;5(4):e85
Kelly KA, Setlur SR, Ross R, Anbazhagan R, Waterman P, Rubin MA, Weissleder R
Detection of early prostate cancer using a hepsin-targeted imaging agent.
Cancer Res. 2008;68(7):2286-91
Weissleder R, Pittet MJ
Imaging in the era of molecular oncology
Nature. 2008;452:580-589
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Imaging Biomarkers: New Horizons and Opportunities in Transplantation
2008;:ePub
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Nanotechnology Advances to Enable Molecular Medicine
2008;:ePub
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Detection of PCA
2008;:ePub

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