Jan 9, 2025
A hearty congratulations to Dr. Larin for receiving the SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award for his groundbreaking contributions in the field of optical coherence elastography (OCE) with significant impact in biology, medicine, and biomedical optics.
Read the full press release and information on other winners of other prizes and their contributions to optics and photonics.
Dec 30, 2024
Congratulations to the lab for their newest publication on Acoustic Radiation Force Optical Coherence Elastography of the Crystalline Lens: Safety published in Translational Vision Science and Technology.
December 5, 2024
Congratulations Dr. Maryam Hatami, BOL, Dr. Daniel Razanksy, and his lab at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich for their work on Real-Time Optoacoustic Imaging of Embryonic Heart Development. Optica, one of the largest optics and photonics professional organizations, selected this research which “they felt communicated breakthroughs of particular interest to the broad optics community.”
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Dr. Hatami was also highlighted for her insight on the future of optics and photonics in 2025.
Sept 18, 2024
Congratulations to the lab for their newest publication on Dual optical elastography detects -induced alterations in the biomechanical properties of skin scaffolds published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics.
July 15, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Gongpu Lan, Dr. Twa, and BOL for winning the prestigious Garland W Clay Award from the American Academy of Optometry for their recent publication In Vivo Human Corneal Shear-wave Optical Coherence Elastography. Each year the Academy presents the Garland Clay Award to the authors of the manuscript published in Optometry and Vision Science (OVS) that has been among the top OVS papers cited in the world research literature in the preceding five years and has the majority vote of the OVS editorial board.
June 24, 2024
Leah was accepted into the HEALTH-FAST training program. Congratulations!
The HEALTH-FAST Program is an NIH/NIDA-funded Future Addiction Scientist Training with a targeted initiative to train talented Postdoctoral Fellows, Early-Stage Investigators, and Doctoral Scholars with the ultimate goal of recruiting and retaining a strong ATOD research workforce that can mitigate ATOD use and the chronic health conditions that result. The program is particularly focused on training scholars who are from low-income households, low-resourced communities, or are first-generation college graduates, as having a diverse workforce in scientific research widens perspectives to promote scientific creativity and innovation, increases the likelihood of underserved populations participating in and benefiting from health-focused research, and enhances public trust. Doctoral Scholars will receive education and experiences that are designed to facilitate their graduation and strengthen their national competitiveness to secure a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction sciences and/or faculty research position in an academic or medical setting. The HEALTH–FAST Program offers outstanding training opportunities, including HEALTH–FAST seminars on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use designed to develop in-depth and cutting-edge knowledge in substance abuse and its associations with chronic diseases. As part of this program, students are awarded a stipend/scholarship for participation at 20 hrs./week which will include professional development seminars to enhance resiliency and retention in a research career, Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training, mentored substance-abuse research projects, and other activities to promote and build a community among the scholars.
May 14, 2024
Congratulations to the lab for the recent work in Optica utilizing reverberant OCE to map the mechanical properties of whole murine embryos noninvasively.
May 11, 2024
Congratulations to Andres Bryan for completing his Masters of Science in Biomedical Engineering degree!
May 3, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Adam Farsheed on his recent work creating self aligning peptides with varying mechanical properties, which was recently published in ACS Nano, and utilized the lab’s multiple optical elastography methods to characterize the various peptides’ stiffnesses.
March 25, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Maryam Hatami and all co-authors for their recent work on optoacoustic imaging of embryo cardiodynamics, which is featured in Advanced Science.
