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Education
1995-2000 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of New Hampshire
2000-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow in Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO
Positions and Employment
2003-2004 Instructor, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
2004-present Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
HONORS
1998 Gloria and Robert Lyle Award, University of New Hampshire
2005 Society of Nuclear Medicine Pilot Research Award
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
1997-present Member, The American Chemical Society (ACS)
2000-present Member, American Association of the Advancement of Science
2001-present Member, The Society of Nuclear Medicine
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Sun X, Johnson DW, Dana L. Caulder DL, Powers RE, Raymond KN, and Wong EH: Exploiting Incommensurate Symmetry Numbers: Rational Design and Assembly of M2M’3L6 Supramolecular Clusters with C3h Symmetry" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1999, 38(9), 1303-1307; Angew. Chem. 1999, 111, 1386-1390.
2. Sun X, Johnson DW, Raymond KN, Wong EH: A Silver-Linked Supramolecular Cluster Encapsulating a Cesium Cation. Inorg. Chem., 2001, 40(17), 4504-4506.
3. Sun X, Johnson DW, Caulder DL, Raymond KN, Wong EH: Rational Design and Assembly of M2M’3L6 Supramolecular Clusters with C3h Symmetry by Exploiting Incommensurate Symmetry Numbers. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001; 123:2752-2763.
4. Sun X, Wuest M, Weisman GR, Wong EH, Reed DP, Motekaitis R, Martell AE, Welch MJ, Anderson CJ: Radiolabeling and In Vivo Behavior of Copper-64-Labeled Cross-Bridged Cyclam Ligands, J. Med. Chem., 2002; 45(2):469-477.
5. Sun X, Wuest M, Kovacs Z, C, Motekaitis R, Wang Z, Martell AE, Welch MJ, Anderson CJ: In Vivo Behavior of Copper-64-Labeled Tetraazamacrocyclic Methanephosphonate Ligands. J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2003; 8(1-2):217-225.
6. Boswell CA, Sun X, Weisman GR, Wong EH, Anderson CJ: In vivo Stability of Copper-64-labeled-Azamacrocyclic Complexes: Comparison of TETA and DOTA with Cross-bridged Chelators. J. Med. Chem., 2004; 47(6):1465-1474.
7. Sun X, Anderson CJ: Production and Applications of Copper-64 Radiopharmaceuticals. Imaging in Biological Research, Methods in Enzymology, 2004; 386:237-261.
8. Sun X, Kim J, Martell AE, Welch MJ, Anderson CJ: In vivo evaluation of copper-64-labeled monooxo-tetraazamacrocyclic Ligands. Nucl. Med. Biol., 2004; 31:1051-1059.
9. Sprague JE, Peng Y, Sun X, Weisman GR, Wong EH, Achilefu S, Anderson CJ. ?Preparation and Biological Evaluation of Copper-64-labeled Tyr3-octreotate using a Cross-Bridged Macrocyclic Chelator? Clin. Cancer Res., 2004, 10, 8674-8682.
10. Sun X, Fang H, Li X, Rossin R, Welch MJ, and Taylor J-S: MicroPET imaging of MCF-7 tumors in mice via unr mRNA-targeted peptide nucleic acids. Bioconjugate Chem., 2005, 16, 294-305.
11. Rossin R, Pan D, Qi K, Turner JL, Sun X, Wooley KL, and Welch MJ: 64Cu-labeled folate-conjugated shell cross-linked nanoparticles for tumor imaging and radiotherapy: Synthesis, radiolabeling and biological evaluation. J. Nucl. Med. 2005, 46, 1210-1218.
12. Sun X, Rossin R, Turner JL, Becker ML, Joralemon MJ, Welch MJ, and Wooley KL: An Assessment of the Effects of Shell Cross-Linked Nanoparticle Size, Core Composition, and Surface PEGylation on in Vivo Biodistribution. Biomacromolecules 2005, 6(5), 2541-2554. |
