William
Phillips, MD

Dr. Williams Phillips is a Nuclear Medicine Physician with an active clinical Nuclear Medicine practice as well as research. In the field of nanomedicine, he has published over 100 scientific articles in peer- reviewed journals.
His research interests have focused on the use of scintigraphic imaging with SPECT and PET agents to monitor and quantitate drug delivery by nanoparticles.
Dr. Phillips has developed new image-based methodologies in the field of Nanomedicine including new methods of tracking nanoparticles with diagnostic radioisotopes and using nanoparticles as carriers for anti-cancer therapeutic radionuclides. He has used nuclear imaging to facilitate development of improved liposome formulations with in vivo targeting advantages based on their nano-size properties.

• UT Medicine physicians recognized as Best Doctors in America®
• Rep. Gonzalez tours radiology areas at UTHSC, UH
• Novel therapy delivers radioactive lipid nanospheres to tumors
• New brain cancer clinical trial launched at CTRC
• New animal imaging system at UTHSC just 5th in world
• Nanotherapy: tiny tools hit brain tumors with big radiation
• CPRIT sends $6.6 million to CTRC in research and product development grants
• Book describes advances in imaging of drug-delivery nanoparticles