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Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
Birth Date:23 November 1962
Birth Place:Ambala, Haryana, India
Nationality:American
Fields:Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, and Bioengineering
Workplaces:Stanford University
Alma Mater:Arizona State University (B.S.), University of California, Los Angeles (M.D. & Ph.D.)
Academic Advisors:M.E. Phelps, S.C. Huang, and H.R. Herschman
Known For:Molecular Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, PET-CT, and Early Cancer Detection
Awards:Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the US National Academies (2008)American Association for the Advancement of Science (2014)National Academy of Inventors (2015)

Sanjiv Sam Gambhir (November 23, 1962 – July 18, 2020) was an American physician–scientist. He was the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor in Cancer Research,[1] Chairman of the Department of Radiology[2] at Stanford University School of Medicine, and a professor by courtesy in the departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Additionally, he served as the Director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS),[3] Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection[4] and the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center (PHIND).[5] He authored 680 publications and had over 40 patents pending or granted.[6] His work was featured on the cover of over 25 journals including the Nature Series, Science, and Science Translational Medicine. He was on the editorial board of several journals including Nano Letters, Nature Clinical Practice Oncology, and Science Translational Medicine. He was founder/co-founder of several biotechnology companies and also served on the scientific advisory board of multiple companies. He mentored over 150 post-doctoral fellows and graduate students from over a dozen disciplines. He was known for his work in molecular imaging of living subjects and early cancer detection.

Personal

Gambhir was born in Ambala, India, and moved to the US with his parents and sister in 1969. He was raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He was married to Aruna Bodapati Gambhir and lived in the Bay Area. He died July 18, 2020, of cancer of unknown primary. His son, Milan Gambhir, was born in 1998 and died from a glioblastoma[7] in 2015.

Education and employment

Gambhir was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Arizona State University where he received his BS in physics. He then entered the combined MD–PhD Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and received his MD, and his PhD in biomathematics.[8]

His first academic appointment was in 1994, at UCLA, as an assistant professor of molecular and medical pharmacology. He was a clinical attending in the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Center for Health Sciences at UCLA starting in 1997. He was appointed tenure professorship at UCLA in 2003.[9] In 2003, he moved to Stanford University and was appointed professor of radiology, head of nuclear medicine, director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), director of the Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics (PHIND) Center,[10] division chief of the Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, and member of the Bio-X Program. He became the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research, which is an endowed professorship, in 2009. He was appointed the chair of radiology in August 2011.[8] [11]

Honors and awards

Gambhir received the following:

Research focus

His research focused on the development of imaging assays to monitor fundamental cellular/molecular events in living subjects with an emphasis on the detection and management of cancer. A particular interest of his research and lab was early cancer detection including combining in vivo and in vitro diagnostics.

Major contributions

PET reporter gene technology, multimodality reporter genes, imaging of gene/cell therapies, imaging of the immune system, imaging of intracellular events in living subjects (e.g., protein-protein interactions), bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) in living subjects, nanoparticle based imaging, Raman imaging in vivo and photoacoustic molecular imaging with novel imaging agents in living subjects. Decision Management Models for the use of FDG PET in cancer.

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Endowed professorships for Gambhir and Relman. Stanford Report. 2 January 2013. June 2009.
  2. Web site: People.
  3. Web site: Leadership.
  4. Web site: Leadership.
  5. Web site: Leadership.
  6. Web site: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD's Profile | Stanford Profiles. profiles.stanford.edu.
  7. Web site: And yet, you try. Stanford Medicine. 15 November 2016 . 2016-12-10.
  8. Web site: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD's Profile | Stanford Profiles. profiles.stanford.edu.
  9. https://ektron.rsna.org/Sanjiv_Sam_Gambhir_MD_PhD.aspx
  10. Web site: Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics. Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center at Stanford.
  11. Web site: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Receives 2018 Benedict Cassen Prize for Research in Molecular Imaging - SNMMI. www.snmmi.org.
  12. Web site: May 9, 2011 - The Dean's Newsletter - Stanford University School of Medicine.
  13. Web site: Medical Center People. news.stanford.edu. 23 January 2023 .
  14. Web site: 2004 News. Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford.
  15. http://www.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=3190 Gambhir Receives SMI’s Achievement Award
  16. Web site: Doctors win $1.5 million awards for cancer research. © Stanford University. Stanford. California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark. Notice. November 3, 2004. Stanford University.
  17. Web site: Medical Center People. © Stanford University. Stanford. California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark. Notice. March 8, 2006. Stanford University.
  18. Web site: College of Fellows : AIMBE. https://web.archive.org/web/20131020032831/http://www.aimbe.org/members/college-of-fellows/. dead. October 20, 2013.
  19. Aebersold Award Presented to Gambhir. July 1, 2006. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 47. 7. 26N. 16871693. jnm.snmjournals.org.
  20. Web site: Home. The American Society for Clinical Investigation.
  21. http://www.iom.edu/Global/Directory/Detail.aspx?id=0020003718 Sanjiv Gambhir – Institute of Medicine
  22. Web site: 2009 RSNA Outstanding Researcher.
  23. http://iasnm.us/HTML/news_awards.html- The Gopal Subramanian Lifetime Achievement Award
  24. Web site: SNM’s 2011 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award.
  25. Web site: AuntMinnie.com announces winners of 2014 Minnies awards for excellence in radiology. AuntMinnie.com.
  26. Web site: Distinguished Scientist Award for Distinguished Contributions to Nuclear Medicine. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517071729/http://www.wrsnm.org/meetings.htm. dead. May 17, 2014.
  27. Web site: Society of Asian American Scientists in Cancer Research Award. https://web.archive.org/web/20140409093100/http://www.indiawest.com/news/10599-eight-indian-american-scientists-honored-by-saascr.html. dead. April 9, 2014.
  28. Web site: American Association of Indian Scientists in Cancer Research Lifetime Achievement Award. https://web.archive.org/web/20140310035744/http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/scientific-achievement-awards/lifetime-achievement-award.aspx. dead. March 10, 2014.
  29. Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow Award.
  30. Web site: 2015 Taylor Prize Recipient | Robarts Research. www.robarts.ca.
  31. Web site: National Academy of Inventors. www.academyofinventors.org. 2017-01-05.
  32. Web site: AAAS - The World's Largest General Scientific Society . www.aaas.org. 2017-01-10.
  33. Web site: Benedict Cassen Prize for Research in Molecular Imaging. June 25, 2018.
  34. Web site: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award - IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity. https://web.archive.org/web/20180831002417/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/awards/recipients/awards_search.pdf. dead. August 31, 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) .

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