Spaliviero, Massimiliano
Harmsen, Stefan
Huang, Ruimin
Wall, Matthew A.
Andreou, Chrysafis
Eastham, James A.
Touijer, Karim A.
Scardino, Peter T.
Kircher, Moritz F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (CA16396)
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (EB017748)
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRR-29-14)
Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance (Pershing Square Sohn Prize)
Article History
First Online: 4 March 2016
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: NIH R01 EB017748 (M.F.K.); NIH K08 CA16396 (M.F.K.); M.F.K. is a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator supported (in part) by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRR-29-14); Pershing Square Sohn Prize by the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance (M.F.K.). MSKCC Center for Molecular Imaging and Nanotechnology (CMINT) Grant, Technology Development Grant, The Center for Experimental Therapeutics of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Molecularly Targeted Intra-Operative Imaging Grant (M.F.K.); Mr. William H. and Mrs. Alice Goodwin and the Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research; Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at MSKCC Grant Award and Shared Resources Award (M.F.K.); Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals/RSNA Research Scholar Grant (M.F.K.). M.S. received salary support by the Department of Surgery of MSKCC (Chair: P.T.S). M.A.W. was supported by a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Grant (NSF, IGERT 0965983 at Hunter College). This research was funded in part through the NIH/NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA008748.
: The project was conceptualized and supervised by M.F.K. The study was designed by M.F.K., M.S., S.H., and R.H. Data acquisition was performed by M.S., S.H, R.H., and M.S., S.H, R.H., C.A., M.A.W., J.A.E., K.A.T., P.T.S., and M.F.K. participated in the design and/or interpretation of the reported experiments or results. C.A. performed data analysis. M.S., S.H, R.H., and M.F.K. wrote the manuscript, which was reviewed and approved by all authors.
: S.H., M.A.W., and M.F.K. are inventors on pending patents regarding the SERRS nanoparticle design and synthesis procedures. M.F.K. is the inventor of an additional pending patent regarding a wide-field Raman scanner and is a co-founder of RIO Imaging, Inc.