July 01, 2025 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Serve as Associate Editor of The EANM Journal, Official Journal of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
Sep 29, 2025 - Dr. Jessica C. Hsu Received a Student Travel Award and a WIMIN Research Scholar Award to attend the 2025 World Molecular Imaging Congress in Anchorage, AK
Apr 10, 2025 - Prof. Cai Received the AIMBE Professional Impact Award for Mentoring
Apr 02, 2025 - Prof. Cai was Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB)
Mar 27, 2025 - Prof. Cai was Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Sep 01, 2024 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Serve as Acting Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Nanotechnology
May 23, 2024 - Dr. Jessica C. Hsu received a Best Oral Presentation Award at 2024 MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle, WA.
November 27, 2023 - Wenyu Song was selected to present at the learning center session of RSNA 2023
November 21, 2023 - Prof. Cai was an Invited Plenary Speaker for the 19th Hwasun Optical Imaging Workshop and Symposium in Gwangju, Republic of Korea
November 18, 2023 - Prof. Cai was an Invited Plenary Speaker for the 2023 Molecular Imaging Society Fall OCnference in Seoul, Republic of Korea
August 10, 2023 - Dr. Jessica C. Hsu Received a Travel Award to attend the 2023 World Molecular Imaging Congress in Prague, Czech Republic
July 12, 2023 - Jessica C. Hsu was Awarded a First Place Poster Award in the Molecular Targeting Probes Track at 2023 SNMMI Meeting
July 1, 2023 - The First Impact Factor of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (AJNMMI) is 2.5
June 26, 2023 - Wenyu Song Won Third Place in the Cardiovascular Council Young Investigator Award Symposium at the 2023 SNMMI Annual Meeting
June 22, 2023 - A R01 with Prof. Cai as a Co-Investigator Received an Impact Score of 20 and 4 Percentile
January 25, 2023 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Co-Chair the Experimental Therapeutics Grant Review Panel for the American Cancer Society, which Took Place in Atlanta
January 12, 2023 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Speak (Total of 3 International Speakers) at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Cancer Research (IACR) in Mumbai, India
November 29, 2022 - Prof. Cai Invited to Serve on Med4 Fellowship Panel on Cancer Research of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for a 3-Year Term
November 16, 2022 - Zachary Rosenkrans was selected as, "Ones to Watch" by SNMMI, which Recognizes Early Career Professionals with the Potential to Shape the Future of Precision Medicine
September 26, 2022 - Dr. Jessica Hsu Received an NCI Student Travel Grant and a WIMIN Scholar Award to Attend the World Molecular Imaging Congress Annual Meeting in Miami.
August 24, 2022 - Prof. Cai was Invited to be a Co-Theme Leader for the Drug Delivery Theme of the 13th International NanoMedicine Conference in June 2023 in Sydney, Australia
August 23, 2022 - Prof. Cai was Invited to be an Editorial Board Member of Exploration, a New Journal Launched by Wiley in 2021
August 20, 2022 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Deliver a Keynote Lecture (Virtually) at the 2022 Chinese Biophysics Congress, to be held by the Biophysical Society of China
August 01, 2022 - Prof. Cai was Invited to be an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (CJCP)
July 25, 2022 - Jessica Hsu was Accepted to the RSNA 2022 Introduction to Academic Radiology for Scientists (ITARSc) Program
July 19, 2022 - Jessica C. Hsu was Awarded the UW-Madison Radiological Sciences Training Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship
July 18, 2022 - Prof. Cai Selected as the Winner of Journal of Nanobiotechnology (JNB) Trailblazer Award by BMC/Springer Nature
July 18, 2022 - Muhsin H. Younis was Awarded the UW-Madison Radiological Sciences Training Grant Predoctoral Fellowship
June 18, 2022 - Prof. Cai Invited to Serve on the Inaugural Editorial Advisory Board of Chemical & Biomedical Imaging (CBMI), a New Journal Launched Jointly by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Nanjing University, China
June 11, 2022 - Muhsin H. Younis Competed in the Center for Molecular Imaging Innovation and Translation (CMIIT) Young Investigator Award (YIA) Symposium at the 2022 SNMMI Annual Meeting
May 31, 2022 - Muhsin H. Younis Awarded a NIH Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) Traineeship
May 10, 2022 - Zhongmin Tang Received a Travel Award to Attend the 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii
December 8, 2021 - Prof. Cai Selected as the Winner of the SNMMI Radiopharmaceutical Sciences Council’s 2022 Michael J. Welch Award
September 26, 2021 - Prof. Cai Finished 3rd Place in Age Group (18th Overall among 412) in THE RIDE 5K RUN
August 12, 2021 - Zack Rosenkrans successfully defended his PhD!
July 16, 2021 - Three Cai Research Group Members (Carolina A. Ferreira, Shreya Goel, and Hyung-Jun Im) were Selected as "Ones to Watch" by SNMMI
July 16, 2021 - Collaborative Work on Wafer-scale Piezoelectric Bio-organic Thin Films was Published in Science
July 13, 2021 - Collaborative Work on Self-Powered Implantable and Bioresorbable Electrostimulation Device for Biofeedback Bone Fracture Healing was Published in PNAS
July 1, 2021 - The Impact Factor of Journal of Nanobiotechnology (JNB) is Now 10.435
June 15, 2021 - Zack Rosenkrans wins multiple honors at SNMMI conference, including the Alavi-Mandell Award and 3rd place CMIIT Young Investigator Award
April 26, 2021 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Serve on the American Cancer Society (ACS) Peer Review Committee for Experimental Therapeutics (ET)
February 4, 2021 - Prof. Cai was Admitted as a Fellow for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
January 6, 2021 - Prof. Cai was Invited to Become an Associate Editor of European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (EJNMMI)
August 12, 2020 - Our Review Article on Nanomedicines for Renal Management: From Imaging to Treatment was Published in Accounts of Chemical Research
March 23, 2020 - Our Review Article on ImmunoPET: Concept, Design, and Applications was Published in Chemical Reviews
March 6, 2020 - Three Cai Research Group Members (Dalong Ni, Sixiang Shi, and Reinier Hernandez) were Selected as "Ones to Watch" by SNMMI
February 27, 2020 - Zachary Rosenkrans Received the SNMMI Bradley-Alavi Student Fellowship
December 25, 2019 - Our Article on Chirality-Driven Transportation and Oxidation Prevention by Chiral Selenium Nanoparticles was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
November 11, 2019 - Our Article on A "Missile-Detonation" Strategy to Precisely Supply and Efficiently Amplify Cerenkov Radiation Energy for Cancer Theranostics was Published in Advanced Materials
August 16, 2019 - Our Article on Ceria Nanoparticles Meet Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: The Perfect Imperfection was Published in Advanced Materials
August 12, 2019 - Zachary T. Rosenkrans Received the First-Tier Baxter Young Investigator Award
July 1, 2019 - Prof. Cai Received the H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship from UW-Madison
June 25, 2019 - Prof. Cai was Elected as a Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)
June 25, 2019 - Cai Research Group Swept the CMIIT Young Investigator Award Symposium: Lei Kang (1st), Emily B. Ehlerding (2nd), Dalong Ni (3rd)
May 23, 2019 - Collaborative Review Article on Nanozyme was Published in Chemical Society Reviews
March 18, 2019 - Three Members (Dawei Jiang, Emily Ehlerding, and Feng Chen) were Selected as "Ones to Watch" by SNMMI
February 18, 2019 - Our Review Article on Radionuclide-Activated Nanomaterials was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
November 27, 2018 - Prof. Cai Recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate Analytics
November 8, 2018 - Our Article on DNA Origami Nanostructures was Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering
October 1, 2018 - Prof. Cai Invited to serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanobiotechnology
June 30, 2018 - Prof. Cai Received the Nano Research Young Innovator Award (NR45)
May 10, 2018 - Prof. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Visited UW - Madison
April 9, 2018 - Prof. Cai was Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Sep 01, 2015 - Prof. Cai was Invited to serve as Associate Editor of American Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (AJNMMI)
Oct 01, 2011 - The first issue of AJNMMI was published
Sep 01, 2008 - Yin Zhang Joined the Group as Our First Graduate Student
July 01, 2008 - Hao Hong Joined the Group as Our First Postdoctoral Fellow
February 18, 2008 - Prof. Cai Joined UW – Madison