Cristina Zavaleta

University of Southern California — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research(29), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications(25), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics(16), Biosensors and Analytical Detection(16), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging(16)

Publications74 total

Optimization of Biodegradable Nanoparticles for Fluorescent Imaging with Drug and Cosmetic Coloring Dye Green 8
ACS Nano Medicine·2026
Nitrogen Positioning in Bicyclic Aromatic Ligands Governs Binding to Nano-Gold: A Curious Case of Quinolinethiol
Chemistry of Materials·2026Open Access
Multiphoton Luminescence Imaging: A Label-Free Tool for Visualizing the Long-Term Fate of Gold Nanoparticles in Tissue
ACS Nano·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A Permeabilization Workflow To Enable Specific Multiplexed Profiling Using SERS Nanoparticles
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·2025Open Access
Benchtop Fabrication and Integration of Laser‐Induced Graphene Strain Gauges and Stimulation Electrodes in Muscle on a Chip Devices
Advanced Functional Materials·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
A Systematic Approach toward Enabling Maximal Targeting Efficiency of Cell Surface Proteins with Actively Targeted SERS Nanoparticles
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
A Raman topography imaging method toward assisting surgical tumor resection
npj Imaging·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Assessment of unmixing approaches for the quantitation of SERS nanoparticles in highly multiplexed spectral images
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
The evolution of immune profiling: will there be a role for nanoparticles?
Nanoscale Horizons·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Current and Developing Lymphatic Imaging Approaches for Elucidation of Functional Mechanisms and Disease Progression
Molecular Imaging and Biology·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Nanomaterial-based contrast agents
Nature Reviews Methods Primers·2023· 105 citedOpen Access
Quantitation of an expanded SERS nanoparticle library for highly multiplexed imaging assays (Conference Presentation)
2023
Multiplexed spatial profiling of cancer enabled by Raman imaging (Conference Presentation)
2023
HyU: Hybrid Unmixing for longitudinal in vivo imaging of low signal-to-noise fluorescence
Nature Methods·2023· 27 citedOpen Access
Multiplexing potential of NIR resonant and non-resonant Raman reporters for bio-imaging applications
The Analyst·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Expanding the Multiplexing Capabilities of Raman Imaging to Reveal Highly Specific Molecular Expression and Enable Spatial Profiling
ACS Nano·2022· 75 cited
A resurgence in nanoparticles: accelerating the clinical translation of nano-based imaging contrast agents
2022
DFT calculations can guide chemical design of plasmonic nanoparticles
2022
DFT-Guided Development of Raman Nanoparticle-Based Contrast Agents for High-Content Imaging
2022
SERS detection of oral and gastrointestinal cancers
Elsevier eBooks·2022· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Sanjiv S. Gambhir(27), Olga E. Eremina(10), Adam de la Zerda(9), Ellis Garai(8), Paul J. Kempen(7), Dominique Van De Sompel(7), Zhen Cheng(6), Jesse V. Jokerst(6), Alexander Czaja(6), Jos L. Campbell(6), Avnesh S. Thakor(5), Robert Sinclair(5), Beth Goins(5), Augusta Fernando(5), Sean Burkitt(5), Zhuang Liu(4), Bryan Ronain Smith(4), Hongjie Dai(4), Moritz F. Kircher(4), Steven Sensarn(4)