Since September 2006, I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where I work in the group of Prof. Zahi Fayad. We collaborate with several researchers including Prof. Edward Fisher, an expert in cardiovascular disease, and Dr. Willem Mulder, an expert in lipid-nanoparticle contrast agents. My research focuses on multifunctional nanoparticles for biomedical applications, in particular as contrast agents for molecular imaging. While at Mount Sinai, I have synthesized a variety of high density lipoprotein based contrast agents that have been applied in cardiovascular disease. In June 2009, I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to investigate gold nanoparticles as contrast agents for computed tomography to detect the risk of a heart attack. In August 2010, I was awarded an NIH K99 fellowship to develop diagnostically active nanoparticles to deliver morpholinos, a type of therapeutic agent.

In summer 2012 I will be moving to the Department of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor and starting my own group.

Prior to working at Mount Sinai, I obtained my DPhil (PhD) from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, in the group of Prof. Paul Beer. There I worked on a variety of sensors for anions involving porphyrins, gold nanoparticles and gold surfaces.

On this webpage you can use the links above to find more information about my research, a publications list, my CV and links to other sites. Feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions at David.Cormode@mssm.edu.