People ~ Adilbay Molecular Imaging

Group Leader

Team members

Dr. Bhaskar Gurram pursued a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Dalian University of Technology, China (2014–2019), where my research focused on the development of fluorescent dyes and photosensitizers for cancer theranostics. Following that, Dr. Gurram joined Shenzhen University (2020–2022), where Dr.Gurram worked on nanotheranostics, enzyme-based nanotheranostics, and prodrugs for synergistic cancer therapy.

Subsequently, Dr. Gurram undertook a second postdoctoral position at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) in the group of Prof. Oya Tagit (2023). There, my research involved the formulation of multimodal nanoparticles for cancer theranostics.

Currently, Dr. Gurram working in my lab on antibody-conjugated dyes for the detection of oral cancer biomarkers

Name : Mary Elyse Moore( MD, PhD Candidate).
Bio:
Mary Elyse Moore, better known as Elyse, is an MD PhD candidate working towards her PhD in the Adilbay lab. Oringially from Charlotte, NC, she completed her undergraduate degree in Clinical Neuroscience at Virginia Tech in 2021. There, she began her research career and helped investigate mitochondrial dysfunction in the lab of Dr. Alicia Pickrell. She also studied French, spent time abroad, and played polo on a US Polo Association sponsored tem, competing up and down the east coast. Following her graduation, Elyse accepted a post baccalaureate research position at the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. There, she worked under Dr. Prashant Chittiboina in the Neurosurgery Unit for Pituitary and Inheritable Disease studying tumorigenesis in the anterior pituitary gland and developing organoid models for gland modeling from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hIPSC). It was during her time at NIH that Elyse realized the profound impact that a physician-scientist can have not only on their own patients but many others and chose to peruse a combined MD PhD degree program. This desire has led her to MUSC’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) where she now works towards her goal of becoming a clinician-scientist.