Keynote speaker

Prof. Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Idaho (1999). After being a faculty at the University of Southern California, Stanford University and then Senior Investigator/Lab Chief at the National Institutes of Health, he is now Nasrat Muzayyin Chair Professor in Medicine and Technology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore. His current research focuses mainly on different forms of theranostics that can be clinically translatable. He has published over 1000 papers and numerous books (total citations > 125,000, H index 185 based on Google scholar). He was elected as AIMBE Fellow (2017) and SNMMI Fellow (2020), received Journal of Nanobiotechnology Trailblazer Award (2023), Advanced Materials Hall of Fame (2023), SNMMI Michael J. Welch Award (2019), ACS Bioconjugate Chemistry Lecturer Award (2016), NIH Director’s Award (2014), NIBIB Mentor Award (2012). He is also the Past President of Chinese American Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (CASNMMI), Past President of the Radiopharmaceutical Science Council (RPSC), Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), and Past President of the Chinese American Society of Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology (CASNN).

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