Dr. Jokerst graduated cum laude from Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri) in 2003 with a B.S. in Chemistry and completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009 with John T. McDevitt. Jesse was a postdoc with Sam Gambhir at Stanford Radiology from 2009-2013 and was an Instructor in that same department from 2013-2015. At Stanford, Jesse received a prestigious American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Burroughs Wellcome Collaborative Research Training Grant, and an NIH R25 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Jesse started at UCSD in July of 2015, and his research focuses on novel chemical probes as acoustic contrast agents. He is currently funded under the NIH’s K99/R00 Pathway to Independence and New Innovator Awards.