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Chengcheng Zhu, PhD

Research

Research Associate Professor

Biography

Dr. Chengcheng Zhu obtained his BS in Electronics from Peking University in China in 2009, followed by his MPhil and PhD in Radiology from University of Cambridge in 2010 and 2013. From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Zhu worked at UCSF’s Vascular Imaging Research Center at VA Medical Center as a post-doc scholar and then an assistant Researcher. In February 2020, Dr. Zhu joined UW Radiology as an Assistant Professor, and promoted to Associate Professor since July 2024. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
Dr. Zhu’s research focuses on the development of advanced vascular imaging techniques across a variety of vascular beds, including femoral artery plaque, abdominal aorta aneurysm, carotid plaque and intracranial artery plaque and aneurysms. He also applied these techniques in patients to explore the clinical relevance of the novel morphological and molecular imaging markers of the vessel wall, and validated these imaging findings with histopathology and clinical outcome.
His research in vascular imaging has been recognized internationally. He is a receipt of NIH career development award (K99/R00) and a R01 grant (total funding 3.5 million USD), and a Junior Fellow of ISMRM. He has been invited to give lectures in vascular imaging in universities, academic centers, and conferences internationally. He has published 152 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 79 of them are first- or senior-authored. His articles appear on Lancet Neurology, Circulation, Radiology, Stroke, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR), Journal of Neurointerventional Surgery (JNIS) etc. He was on the editorial board of American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR) and he is an editorial board member of Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, also Associate Editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers of Neurology. He is a reviewer for Nature Communications, Radiology, Neurology, Stroke, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry (JNNP), IEEE TMI, Medical Image Analysis, and another 50 journals. He is a distinguished reviewer for Radiology, JCMR and JMRI. He serves as a grant reviewer for several funding agencies, including Canadian Foundation of Innovation, NIH (EITA, CTIS and ISB study sections), the Swiss National Science Foundation and American Heart Association (AHA).

Research Interest

Magnetic resonance imaging
Vessel Wall Imaging
Multi modal imaging techniques
Atherosclerosis
Aneurysms
Stroke

Awards

Great Britain-China Educational Trust Award, 2011

K99/R00 Career Development Award, NHLBI, 2017

Junior Fellow of ISMRM, 2017

Five Times Winner of Summa Cum Laude Merit Award of ISMRM Annual Meeting (Top 5%) 2016/2017

Distinguished Reviewer, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2017

Bruce Hasegawa Excellence in Biomedical Research Award, Department of Radiology, UCSF 2018

Triple Gold Star Reviewer, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2020-2024

Editor’s Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction, Radiology journal (RSNA), 2023-2024

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Education

PhD, Radiology, University of Cambridge, 2013

MPhil, Radiology, University of Cambridge, 2010

BS, Electronic, Peking University, Beijing, China 2009

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