Prof. Ed Wong

Edward H. Wong, PhDProfessor of ChemstryDepartment of ChemistryUniversity of New Hampshire

Prof. Ed Wong (UNH) & other NE scientists

UNH professors Gary Weisman and Ed Wong, in collaboration with a Washington University colleague, have designed the new class of "clamshell" molecules, the basis of new imaging compounds for positron emission tomography, or PET scans.
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Wong said, "Obviously, we still have a long way to go" before human applications will be approved, but the sharper images of these compounds could allow doctors to see smaller tumors, treat patients sooner and save lives.

The new imaging compounds being tested in rats at Washington University in St. Louis have yielded promising preliminary results.

Wong said that Washington University collaborator Carolyn Anderson "told us that it lights up tumors like a Christmas tree."
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Wong, an inorganic chemist, began collaborating with Weisman in 1994, and five years later, they extended their collaboration with Anderson.
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Wong said further research may reveal the potential to use the clamshell molecules to not only identify tumors, but to kill cancer cells as well.

Weisman has been teaching at UNH since 1997 and Wong since 1978, and both said they are having fun and are pleasantly surprised by where their research has led.

UNH professors Gary Weisman and Ed Wong, in collaboration with a Washington University colleague, have designed the new class of "clamshell" molecules, the basis of new imaging compounds for positron emission tomography, or PET scans.
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Wong said, "Obviously, we still have a long way to go" before human applications will be approved, but the sharper images of these compounds could allow doctors to see smaller tumors, treat patients sooner and save lives.

The new imaging compounds being tested in rats at Washington University in St. Louis have yielded promising preliminary results.

Wong said that Washington University collaborator Carolyn Anderson "told us that it lights up tumors like a Christmas tree."
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Wong, an inorganic chemist, began collaborating with Weisman in 1994, and five years later, they extended their collaboration with Anderson.
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Wong said further research may reveal the potential to use the clamshell molecules to not only identify tumors, but to kill cancer cells as well.

Weisman has been teaching at UNH since 1997 and Wong since 1978, and both said they are having fun and are pleasantly surprised by where their research has led.
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University of New Hampshire professors Ed Wong, left, and Gary Weisman and Ed Wong say helped development cancer detection technology that "lights up tumors like a Christmas tree," according to one of their collaborators.

University of New Hampshire chemists Gary Weisman and Ed Wong designed the new class of "clamshell" molecules that are the basis of new imaging compounds for Positron Emission Tomography, or PET scans.
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"Our collaborator Carolyn Anderson told us that it lights up tumors like a Christmas tree," said Wong.
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Wong and Weisman for complexing copper radionuclides for PET imaging is a major advance for PET radiopharmaceuticals," said Anderson, a professor at Washington University (St. Louis) and the medical school's Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, where the first usable PET scanner was developed in 1970.
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To see their work result in a potential biomedical application is an added bonus for Wong, an inorganic chemist, and Weisman, an organic chemist.
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"Our goal in all of our research programs has always been to turn students into professionals," said Wong."That's as important a goal as doing good science."