Xiankai Sun, Ph.D.

Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Jack Krohmer Professor in Radiation Physics  

Department of Radiology & Advanced Imaging Research Center

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

Dr. Xiankai Sun obtained his B.S. in Physical Chemistry from Wuhan University, M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry on design and synthesis of supramolecular clusters with pre-designed symmetrieson design and synthesis of supramolecular clusters with pre-designed symmetries  on design and synthesis of supramolecular clusters with pre-designed symmetries from the University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH). After three years of postdoctoral training and then a short junior faculty stay at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, in 2004 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern), where he is now a tenured professor on the Graduate Program of Biomedical Engineering and Graduate Tracks of Biomedical Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine. Dr. Sun’s expertise is in the design and synthesis of imaging probes and therapeutic agents for cancer, metabolic, and neurodegenerative diseases. Endowed by the Dr. Jack Krohmer Professorship in Radiation Physics since 2012, Dr. Sun serves as Director of the Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Program, and Director of the Hybrid Imaging (PET/MRI) Facility for Pediatric Oncology at UT Southwestern. In addition, he co-directs the Preclinical Nuclear Imaging Laboratory, which is equipped with state-of-the-art small animal scanners, for molecular imaging studies in diseased animal models.