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Jason Cai is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, with a secondary appointment in Pharmacology. He specializes in medicinal chemistry and radiopharmaceutical sciences. After completing his doctoral studies in Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2011, Dr. Cai joined Carolyn Anderson's lab at the University of Pittsburgh as a postdoctoral associate, focusing on the development of radiopharmaceuticals and preclinical PET imaging for oncology. In 2015, he became part of the Yale PET Center, where he expanded his research portfolio to encompass brain PET imaging. His current research group is dedicated to developing and translating novel PET imaging probes aimed at drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies in the context of central nervous system disorders and oncology. Dr. Cai has received several prestigious awards, including the NIH Career Development Award in 2017, the SNMMI Berson-Yalow Award in 2018, and the Archer Foundation Research Scholar Award in 2019.
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