Professors Prabhas Moghe, Charles Roth and Richard Riman were recently awarded a two year, $420,127 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health entitled "Albumin-Encapsulated Rare Earth Nanoprobes for Multifunctional Tissue Imaging." The goal of this project is to exploit the previously untapped tissue transparency in the short wave infrared for in vivo optical imaging of disease states, including tumor metastasis.