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Rong Xu, PhD Dr. Rong Xu is a radiochemist in the PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Section (PRSS), NIMH from January 2012. She received her B.S. (1999) and M.Sc. (2002) degrees in Organic Chemistry from Yunnan University in China, investigating the structure-activity relationship of benzoylurea chitin inhibitors. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Missouri-Columbia under the guidance of Dr. Susan Lever. Her research focused on the structural design, synthesis and radiolabeling of 1,4-disubstituted piperazines as brain imaging ligands for sigma receptors. She had her postdoc...

Fabrice Simeon, PhD Dr. Fabrice Simeon, PhD is a Staff Scientist who joined the PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Section, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Institute of Mental Health as a Visiting Fellow in March 2003. He received his BSc (Organic Chemistry, 1993) and PhD (Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 1998) from the University of Caen, France. Dr. Simeon’s early research focused on the fast methods for the synthesis of organic molecules using either microwave irradiation or organometallic catalytic systems. Before joining the MIB in Bethesda, MD, he spent two years at the department of Lif...

Shuiyu Lu, PhD Dr. Shuiyu Lu is a Staff Scientist (since June 2002) in the PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Section, Molecular Imaging Branch, National Institute of Mental Health. He received his BSc (Organic Chemistry, 1983) from Nanjing University, China and PhD (Synthetic Organic Polymer Chemistry, 1991) from the University of Manchester, England. He spent two-years at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Lu’s early research focused on the formation and transformation of macromolecules. He became a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University ...

PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Research - Lisheng Cai, PhD

PET Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Research - Susovan Jana, PhD