Dr. Adam de la Zerda is an Assistant Professor in the department of Structural Biology at Stanford Medical School. In 2011 Dr. de la Zerda finished his PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University with Prof. Sam Gambhir, and then did a postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry at UC Berkeley with Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi. He is working on the development of new molecular imaging technologies to visualize and interrogate various biomolecules in cancer. Dr. de la Zerda has received numerous awards for his research including the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship (2011), Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship (2011; offered but not taken), Era of Hope Distinguished Predoctoral Award (2011), Best Poster Presentation at SPIE Photonics West (2009), the Young Investigator Award at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (2008), the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Award (2008), and the Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowship (2008). He published over 14 papers in leading journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nano Letters, and PNAS, some of which received significant press coverage from Forbes Magazine, US News and The Washington Post. He holds a number of patents and is the co-founder of a medical imaging device company, OcuBell Inc. He studied Computer Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology where he graduated with a B.Sc. Summa Cum Laude.