Profile for Frank Y. S. Chuang

Researcher

fchuang@ucdavis.edu

Frank Y. S. Chuang, M.D., Ph.D. is a medical scientist at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento and an Associate Director of the NSF Center for Biophotonics, Science and Technology (CBST). After receiving his undergraduate degree in bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, Frank joined a team of clinical researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop one of the first systems to treat surgically-inoperable brain tumors using accelerated heavy charged-particle beams. This work was done in collaboration with UC San Francisco and Stanford University Medical Centers, and led to the eventual construction of the dedicated medical proton accelerator facility at Loma Linda Medical Center. In 1990, Frank received a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His graduate research using fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy to characterize the transmembrane signal activation of human white blood cells contributed to the current body of evidence which supports the existence of lipid “rafts” and microdomains in biomembrane architecture and physiology.

After completing his medical training and receiving a Ph.D. in immunology and biophysics, Dr. Chuang returned to California as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In the Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics (M-Division, formerly the Medical Technology Program), he was the lead biomedical scientist for several projects developing new in vitro diagnostic systems for rapid, multiplex detection of microbial pathogens, and has written numerous papers and book chapters on optical methods of biodetection. Dr. Chuang serves as an executive (helping to manage ~30 research projects currently supported by CBST), educator (developing curricula and teaching workshops in select biophotonic topics) and researcher (focusing on optical tissue imaging and development of advanced nanoparticles). Dr. Chuang also works in part for the LLNL-UC Davis Integrated Cancer Center and is leading the effort to develop clinical applications for a revolutionary new compact proton accelerator being designed and built at Lawrence Livermore Lab.

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