Chengcheng
Zhu
PhD
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 157 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 80 of them are first- or senior-authored. His articles appear on Lancet Neurology, JAMA 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, ISB and NICD 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
Top Scholar Award (top 0.5%), ranked 37th globally in the research area of "intracranial aneurysm". By Scholar GPS
Education
PhD, Radiology, University of Cambridge, 2013
MPhil, Radiology, University of Cambridge, 2010
BS, Electronic, Peking University, Beijing, China 2009