Weibo Cai#
| Membership Number: | 7539 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://mi.wisc.edu/ |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/weibo-cai-85142a79/ |
| Publication Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cai+weibo&sort=date |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Radiology (80%), Medical Physics (20%), Materials Science & Engineering (0%), Pharmaceutical Sciences (0%), University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
- 2014 - 2018 Associate Professor (with Tenure) of Radiology (80%), Medical Physics (20%), Biomedical Engineering (0%), Materials Science & Engineering (0%), University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
- 2008 - 2014 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Radiology (80%) and Medical Physics (20%), Biomedical Engineering (0%), University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
- 2005 - 2008 Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Drug delivery
- Molecular imaging
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Translational research
- Antibody
- Theranostics
- Positron emission tomography
- Chemical science
- Nanobiotechnology
- Cancer research
Honours and Awards
- 2025 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Professional Impact Award for Mentoring
- 2025 Fellow, Royal Society of Biology (RSB)
- 2024 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2022 Journal of Nanobiotechnology (JNB) Trailblazer Award, BMC/Springer Nature
- 2022 Michael J. Welch Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council
- 2021 Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- 2019 Fellow, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
- 2018 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- 2018 Inaugural Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) in Nanobiotechnology
- 2018 Nano-Micro Letters (NML) Researcher Award
- 2016 Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship Award, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- 2013 Siemens Novel Application Image of the Year (2nd Place)
- 2012 Berson-Yalow Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine (as Senior Author)
- 2007 SNM Young Professionals Committee Best Basic Science Award (1st Place)
