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Fite, Brett

Brett Fite received his B.A. in both Physics and Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2003 where he conducted undergraduate research during all of the four years of his undergraduate career on examination of enzymatic mechanisms employing fluorescence, especially time resolved fluorescence, to probe various catalytic states. He subsequently attended Stanford University to study… Read more Fite, Brett

Gagnon, Karen

Karen Gagnon received a BSc in Chemistry from Mount Allison University in 1999 and a PhD from The University of Western Ontario in 2005. During her PhD studies she developed polymer-supported aryl and vinyl stannanes that could be used as scaffolds for labeling molecules of biological interest with radioactive iodine. She began a postdoctoral position at… Read more Gagnon, Karen

Ferrara, Katherine

Katherine Whittaker Ferrara is a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis and the Director of theCenter for Content Rich Evaluation of Therapeutic Efficacy (cCRETE). She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the IEEE, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Acoustical Society of… Read more Ferrara, Katherine

Beegle, Julie

Julie Beegle received her B.S. degree in Biology with emphasis in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from the University of California, Davis in 2009. The following year she worked at Genentech and The Jackson Laboratory West as a custom breeding technician, assisting in the production and study of mouse models for pharmaceutical research. She joined the Ferrara… Read more Beegle, Julie

Immunotherapy

A major current focus of our laboratory is the development of strategies to combine immune adjuvants and thermal or chemotherapy.  We find that such strategies can create a curative systemic response in aggressive cancers and we are working to characterize the mechanisms and enhance the efficacy.  We are currently evaluating these strategies in pre-clinical models… Read more Immunotherapy

Presentation at the MRgFUS Symposium “Nanoparticles locate tumor, deliver drugs”

Nanoparticles are under investigation for a wide range of cancer-management applications: from imaging tumour cells to targeted delivery of therapeutic drugs. Now, researchers at the University of California, Davis are developing ultrasound-activated liposomes that can combine tumour imaging and therapy within a single system.