Dual Optical Elastography Techniques Reveal the Regulation of Corneal Stiffness by Collagen XIV

July 26, 2026

Congratulations to the lab for the newest publication: “Dual Optical Elastography Techniques Reveal the Regulation of Corneal Stiffness by Collagen XIV” in Journal of Biophotonics.

July 6, 2026

Congratulations to the lab for the newest publication: “Assessment of skin stiffness in systemic sclerosis using optical coherence elastography: A comparative study with histology and clinical parameters” in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

June 11, 2026

Congratulations to the lab for the newest publication: “Multimodal optical imaging for the assessment of the teratogenic effects of ethanol on zebrafish development” in Journal of Biomedical Optics.

May 14, 2026

A huge congratulations to three outstanding PhD graduates from the Biomedical Optics Laboratory at the University of Houston! ๐ŸŽ“๐ŸŽ‰

Jessica Gutierrez, Christian Zevallos Delgado, and Md Mobarak Karim have each successfully completed their doctoral degrees under the mentorship of Dr. Kirill Larin โ€” and what an incredible achievement it is for all three!

Congratulations, Dr. Gutierrez, Dr. Zevallos Delgado, and Dr. Karim โ€” the future is yours!

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April 21, 2026

Congratulations to Md Mobarak Karim for successfully defending his PhD dissertation focused on the development of a multimodal imaging system for simultaneous structural and molecular imaging!

April 9, 2026

Congratulations to undergraduate Henry Chuo for presenting his work at Undergraduate Research Day. His research focused on assessing the structural and mechanical property changes in corneas in a model of keratoconus using second harmonic generation imaging and optical coherence elastography.

April 8, 2026

Congratulations to Jessica Gutierrez for successfully defending her PhD dissertation! The countless hours of research and hard work have led to this moment โ€” welcome to the other side, Dr. Gutierrez!

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March 25, 2026

Congratulations to Christian Zevallos-Delgado for successfully defending his PhD dissertation focused on mapping the mechanical properties of embryos with reverberant optical coherence elastography!

Feb 11, 2026

Congratulations to the lab for the newest publication: “Brillouin microscopic assessment of retinal stiffness during reactive Mรผller gliosis” in Experimental Eye Research.

March 1, 2026

Congratulations to the lab for the newest publication: “Quantitative comparison between optical coherence elastography, ultrasound-based shear wave elastography, and Brillouin imaging” in the Journal of Physics: Photonics.