Dr Tarik Massoud

Tarik Massoud

University position

University Lecturer and Honorary Consultant

Dr Tarik Massoud is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

Departments

Department of Radiology

Email

tfm23@radiol.cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/...

Research Themes

Preclinical and clinical imaging

In vivo modelling

Interests

My current interests are in experimental molecular imaging of reporter gene expression, as applied to imaging protein-protein interactions and signal transduction in cancer, within living subjects.

Research Focus

Keywords

molecular imaging

cancer imaging

reporter gene imaging

bioluminescence imaging

protein-protein interactions

Cancer sites

brain and central nervous system

Equipment

Cell culture

Computerised tomography

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Microscopy

Optical imaging

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Recombinant protein expression

Key publications

Massoud TF, Gambhir SS (2003), ““Molecular imaging in living subjects: Seeing fundamental biological processes in a new light””, Genes and Development 17:545–580

Massoud TF, Paulmurugan R, Gambhir SS (2004), ““Molecular imaging of homodimeric protein-protein interactions in living subjects””, The FASEB Journal 18:1105–1107

Paulmurugan R, Massoud TF, Huang J, Gambhir SS (2004), ““Molecular imaging of drug modulated protein-protein interactions in living subjects””, Cancer Research 64:2113–2119

Collaborators

Cambridge

Ashok Venkitaraman

International

Sam Gambhir Web: http://mips.stanford.edu