Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, United States
Quan is a postdoctoral research fellow in Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Stanford Schoold of Medicine. She grew up in Nanjing, China. She attended Hong Kong Baptist University for her undergraduate training where she majored in applied biology and minored in chemistry, completing an honor’s thesis investigating the acute and prolonged effects of alcohol intake on dopamine receptor expression in mice substantia nigra. Moving to the other side of the Pacific, Quan then completed both her M.S. and Ph.D. training in biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her doctoral research focused on optical and photoacoustic imaging for early detection of liver and colon cancers with molecular targeting probes such as peptides and nanoparticles. Quan is currently undertaking a postdoctoral training with the goal of translating fluorescence guided neurosurgery in human brain cancer patients and enhanced drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier via tight junction protein modulation and focused ultrasound.