"Hot" Papers
We are very happy to announce one of our submissions to this year's upcoming 2012 Photonics West conference has been selected as one of 2012's "Hot Papers". This is a short list of recommended papers for SPIE attendees and was released as part of the October 3rd Photonics West Press Kit.
Congrats to Oliver, Brijesh, Yong Jin, and Conor Evans!
November 2011:
Fellow of SPIE
Michael Hamblin was recently informed on behalf of the SPIE Board of Directors and Fellows Committee that he has been elected to the grade of Fellow. Congratulations Michael!
October 2011:
Physics World's top 10 breakthroughs for 2011
The MGH news office recently informed us that Andy Yun and Malte Gather's GFP cellular laser is being included in Physics World's top 10 breakthroughs for 2011.
Congratualtions Andy and Malte!
Here is some additional information which Physics World provided: Malte Gather and Seok Hyun Yun at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have been named eighth place in Physics World magazine’s list of top 10 breakthroughs for 2011. The group was chosen by the judging team for their work on creating a living laser which featured in this news item on physicsworld.com. The top 10 breakthroughs list has been compiled by the Physics World team, who reviewed over 350 news articles about breakthroughs in the physical sciences published on physicsworld.com in 2011. The criteria for judging included:
· Fundamental importance of research
· Significant advance in knowledge
· Strong connection between theory and experiment
· General interest to all physicists
October 2011:
Bullock-Wellman Fellowship Award Recipients
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Sedat Nizamoglu, 2011 Bullock-Wellman Fellowship Award Project Title: “Photonic Implants: Dual-purpose Therapeutic and Diagnostic Biodegradable Devices for Flap Surgery” |
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Christine Fleming, 2011 Bullock-Wellman Fellowship Award Project Title: “Optical Myocardial Biopsy using Micro-Optical Coherence Tomography” |
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September 2011:
Cover of Biophysical Journal
Giuliano Scarllie's paper, entitled "In Vivo Measurement of Age- Related Stiffening in the Crystalline Lens by Brillouin Optical Microscopy", appeared in the cover of Biophysical Journal, along with an interview.
Congratulations, Giuliano!
September 2011:
Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional Development Award
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2012 Recipient of the Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional Development Grant funded by The American Society of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. Congratulations to Fernanda Sakamoto! |
September 2011:
Wellman's Award Recipients
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Tayyaba Hasan, Ph.D. received an NIH, RO1 grant Project Title: “Targeted Photoactivable Nanocells: Image-based Drug Delivery and Dosimetry in GBM” |
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Jonathan Celli, recently received a NIH K99/R00 Project Title: "Mechanism-based therapies for pancreatic cancer informed by stromal microrheology"
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Keehoon Jung, recently received an MGH ECOR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Project Title: "The origin of Tumors - Investigation of colon tumorigenesis based on in vivo longitudinal imaging" |
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Linbo Liu, recently received an MGH ECOR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Project Title: "Revealing autoregulatory mechanism governing fluid transport by motile cilia" |
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July 2011:
Rox at TEDx Boston
A short 12-minute Youtube video of Dr. Anderson's TEDx talk that summarizes much of the work that has been developed here.
Dr. Anderson gave this talk to a general audience and is useful to those who are curious about what we do here, because it can be understood by almost anybody.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design is aimed to "change the world" with people's action and ideas in a short talk.
July 2011:
Cell Lasers Live
Live interview with Wellman Center's Dr. Seok-Hyun Andy Yun and Dr. Malte Gather speaking on live lasers in human cells. Here is an article that Harvard Gazette published and here is the publication that prompted the interviews.
June 2011:
Wellman's Award Recipients
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Tayyaba Hasan, PhD |
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Meena Siddiqui |
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Mei X. Wu, MD, PhD |
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Jonathon Celli, PhD |
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May 2011:
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Tyler St. Denis, mentored by Dr. Michael Hamblin, attended the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles, California.
Intel's International Fair is highly competitive where more than 1,600 students compete for awards and only 20% of students get a dingle award (special or Grand Award).
In spite of the high competition, Tyler not only received one award, but rather was awarded 4 prizes:
1. First Place awarded by the US Air Force ($3,000)
2. First Place awarded by a society for innovators and ingenuity ($1,000)
3. Second Place by the US Patent Office ($150)
4. Third Place Grand Award in the Category of Microbiology ($1,000- against 100 international microbiologists)
Congratulation Tyler! You've done a superb job!
March 2011:
Ellet H. Drake Memorial Award
Dieter Manstein, MD, PhD is the recipient of the 2011 Ellet H. Drake Memorial Award for innovation in laser medicine at American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS).
The Ellet H. Drake Memorial Award was established in 1995 to recognize a practicing physician who has contributed to innovative laser procedures and/or laser products for medicine. The award is given in memory of Ellet Drake, M.D., co-founder of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. The award may be given to either members or non-members. The award which consists of $1,000 and a plaque will be presented to the award recipient at the Annual Conference. The award recipient will be required to present a lecture during a plenary session at the conference.
March 2011:
Wilma Bergfeld, MD Visionary and Leadership Award
This award was created in 2000 at the 25th Anniversary celebration of the WDS (Women’s Dermatological Society) to recognize dermatologists of national prominence who have been trailblazers for women in some aspect of Dermatology.
The award is not given on an annual basis, but on such occasion as the Awards Committee and Board of Directors of the Society feel that there is an individual who is especially deserving of this honor.
Lynn Drake MD is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the medical staff at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and is Director of Policy for the Wellman Center of Photomedicine in Boston, MA. She is board certified in Dermatology and Dermatopathology and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Dr. Drake is Past President of the American Academy of Dermatology, served on the National Advisory Board for NIAMS at the NIH, the Board of Directors of the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and Congressional Fellow in Washington, DC. She received a Presidential Appointment as a U.S. Delegate to the World Health Organization and was on the National Policy Forum Council for Health Care Reform. Dr. Drake previously served as Chair of the Department of Dermatology at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, and Deputy Chair of the Department at Harvard Medical School where she was also Director of the Dermatology Clinical Investigation Unit. She has served on multiple FDA Advisory Panels and is currently Chair of the Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee (DODAC).
March 2011:
Caroline & William Mark Memorial Award
Franz Hillenkamp, PhD is the recipient of the 2011 Caroline & William Mark Memorial Award.
The Caroline and William Mark Memorial Award was established in 1982 to recognize candidates for their accomplishments either in the research or clinical field. The award is given in recognition of the candidate’s lifetime contribution rather then merely on the basis of activity during the preceding twelve months. The candidate’s work should have been of a caliber that has achieved previous recognition from his or her colleagues. The candidates should not be limited to individuals in academia alone but should also take into consideration areas of private clinical endeavor.
February 2011:
There is now available a non-invasive cosmetic treatment for getting rid of fat on the body by freezing it away! See the news report from Channel 5 News.
2010 Bullock-Wellman Fellowship Award
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Vionnie Yu, PhD Project title: Defining the stromal contribution to leukemia development using a multi-fluorescent transgenic model. Project Abstract |
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Xinyuan Chen, PhD Project title: Needle- and Additive-Free Vaccine Delivery and Adjuvantation by Cutaneous Laser Illumination. Project Abstract |
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Abby S. and Howard Milstein Innovation Award
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Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD Project Title: Abby S. and Howard Milstein Innovation Project Title: “P53 rescue as a therapeutic strategy in melanoma” Project Overview: The project will define the molecular pathways which render melanoma cells susceptible to MDM2 antagonism as a therapeutic strategy. |
2011 Grant Recipients
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Tianhong Dai, PhD Grant Award: Airlift Research Foundation Research Grant Project title: "Defining the stromal contribution to leukemia development using a multi-fluorescent transgenic model" Project Abstract |
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Tayyaba Hasan, PhD Grant Award: NIH, RO1 grant Project title: "Targeted Photoactivable Nanocells: Image-based Drug Delivery and Dosimetry in GBM" Project Abstract |
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2010 Grant Recipients
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Conor L. Evans, PhD Grant Award: NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2) Project title: "Imaging and Overcoming Hypoxia-Induced Resistance in Metastatic Ovarian Cancer" Project Overview |
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Bryan Spring, PhD Grant Award: NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32) Project title: "Hyperspectral Microendoscopy to Monitor VEGF During Pancreatic Cancer Therapy" Project Overview |
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November 2010:
New hope for burnt healing: After 25 years of having brun scars on her arms, there is now new hope of healing and repair. See the news report from Channel 5 News.
October 2010:
Announcing Tayyaba Hasan been selected as a co-recipient of the 2010 Catalyst Award for dedication to equity in science, engineering and technology. Tayyaba Hasan is one of two recipients of the 2010 Catalyst Award given by the Science Club for Girls.
September 2010:
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Martin Purschke, PhD won the ASLMS (American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery) 2010 Non-Student Research Grant Award Period: July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
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Melissa Suter, PhD received a CIMIT New Innovation Grant Award Period:April 1, 2010 - March 31, 2011 Project Title: “High-Resolution Optical Frequency Domain Imaging and Computed Tomography Imaging of the Pulmonary Airways” |
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Joshua Tam, PhD received a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the MGH Fund for Medical Discovery (FMD) Award Period: September 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011 Project Title: “Cryolipolysis of Visceral Fat Tissue” |
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Durga Udayakumar, PhD received the Dermatology Foundation Research Grant Award Period: July 2010 - June 2011 Project Title: “Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of EPHA2- Mediated Melanoma Oncogenesis” |
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Benjamin Vakoc, PhD received a Harvard Catalyst Pilot Grant Award Period: August 2010 - July 2011 Project Title: “Clinical Imaging of Capillary Malformations Using Optical Frequency Domain Imaging” |
August 2010:
Our own Dr. Tayyaba Hasan was featured in the Journal of Biomedical Optics in a special edition honoring "Pioneers in Biomedical Optics" of the September/October 2010 issue.
Sumbissions are expected to reflect the impact of Dr. Hasan's contributions to the field of biomedical optics, specifically in the area of photodynamic therapy.
Read the editorial letter about the Biomedical optics issue honoring Tayyaba.
Congratulations Tayyaba!
April 2010:
Dr. R. Rox Anderson was awarded the 2010 Eugene J. Van Scott Award for Innovative Therapy of the Skin at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. In conjunction with this award, Dr. Anderson also presented the Phillip Frost Leadership Lecture at the plenary session of the Academy’s Annual Meeting which was noted in the April 2010 issue of Dermatology World publication.
“Dr. Anderson’s award recognizes his tremendous advancements in laser technology. He conceived and developed dermatology’s most precise surgical instruments – selectively absorbed pulsed lasers. His work pioneered non-scarring treatments for vascular malformations (birth defects affecting arteries or veins) as well as a wide variety of skin conditions. He also invented and clinically introduced permanent laser hair removal. Leading many collaborations, he developed laser tattoo removal and the concept of “fractional photothermolysis,” which is used in the treatment of photoaging, scars and melasma. Within the past five years, he co-developed a new strategy using polarized light analysis for rapid imaging of skin cancer margins, and co-invented the use of controlled tissue cooling to selectively and non-invasively remove body fat.” - American Academy of Dermatology
April 2010:
The American Association for Cancer Research has selected Prakash Rai, PhD as a recipient of the highly-competitive 2010 AACR-Merck Scholar-in-Training Award. Prakash is a research fellow in Tayyaba Hasan's lab working on developing nanotechnology towards the treatment of pancreatic and ovarian cancer.
Scholar-in-Training Awards recognize first authors of meritorious abstracts accepted for the AACR Annual Meeting. Fewer than 10 percent of applicants are selected for an award.
Prakash presented his abstract "Targeting intracellular VEGF using nanotechnology for subcellular delivery of bevacizumab improves efficacy of combination therapy against pancreatic cancer" in an oral presentation (Abstract #3853) at a minisymposium (Novel Combination Therapies) during the AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010, April 17th through 21st in Washington, DC.
The American Association for Cancer Research provides a full listing of award recipients.
April 2010:
Dr. Tayyaba Hasan and her research fellow, Dr. Prakash Rai, were featured panelists for a press conference on emerging treatments in pancreatic cancer on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, at the International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics held in Boston. Details about the conference can be found on the AACR News page. We welcome you to also listen to the press conference.
The conference was supported by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), National Cancer Institute (NCI), and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC).
April 2010:
Pilhan Kim's paper appeared in the cover of Nature Methods in the April 2010 issue. Pilhan's paper is titled "In vivo wide-area cellular imaging by side-view endomicroscopy". Congratulations Pilhan! |
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March 2010:
Su Luo was awarded the Seed Grant award from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program. Su was one of the only 38 people selected to receive the grant this year from the foundation.
Please view AMA's press release for more information.
Congratulations Su!
December 2009:
Malte Gather, PhD was the fourth recipient to receive the Bullock-Wellman Fellowship award. The title of Malte's proposal is "Biocompatible and bioabsorbable optical devices for Photomedicine". Malte has two Wellman faculty mentors: Andy Yun and Robert Redmond.
Proposals were evaluated for scientific quality, originality, enabling collaboration, potential medical and scientific impact and potential for career development of the Fellow. All proposals were considered to be excellent; covering a wide range of important topics. The committee sincerely regretted that only one proposal could be selected for the fellowship award.
October 2009:
We are very pleased to inform you that Tayyaba Hasan, PhD will receive the highly prestigious NIH Bench to Bedside Pioneer Award. The award ceremony will be held at the NIH Workshop in Bethesda, MD on Thursday, October 1st.
Here is an excerpt from the NIH Workshop website:
"The NIH Bench to Bedside Pioneer Award recipient is Prof. Tayyaba Hasan of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hasan's extraordinary contributions to Biomedical Optics include pioneering activities in basic research, clinical translation, and mentoring young scientists. Her career has spanned a range of topics in Photomedicine including basic photochemistry, photobiology, and photodynamic therapy (PDT), leading to the invention of PDT for treating patients with age-related macular degeneration. Her work in immunotargeting, optical spectroscopy, and in vivo optical imaging of tissue is ongoing through funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Hasan's second appointment in the MGH Office for Research Career Development has her involved in mentoring scientists at all stages of their careers and helping establish pathways for career growth at one of the largest biomedical research institutions in the world."
August 2009:
We are extremely delighted to share with you that Clemens Alt and Pilhan Kim are recipients of the 2009 Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship Award funded by the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corporation (MBRC).
Clemens' project title is: "Probing microglia microenvironment with adaptive-optics imaging and selective optical microsurgery" and Pilhan's title is "In vivo longitudinal imaging of colon tumorigenesis in conditional Apc knock-out mice" Please refer to their project summaries for additional information. This was a very competitive review, Clemens and Pilhan’s proposals were chosen from among 95 applications considered by the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) and the Subcommittee on Review of Research Proposals (SRRP). Only 10 proposals were awarded. Their one year fellowship will begin September 1, 2009.
July 2009:
Dr. Michael Hamblin's article "Treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection with intra-gastric violet light phototherapy: a pilot clinical trial." (Lasers Surg Med, 2009 Jul) has been selected for Faculty of 1000 Medicine.
Treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection with intra-gastric violet light phototherapy: a pilot clinical trial.
Lembo AJ, Ganz RA, Sheth S, Cave D, Kelly C, Levin P, Kazlas PT, Baldwin PC 3rd, Lindmark WR, McGrath JR, Hamblin MR.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Helicobacter pylori infects the mucus layer of the human stomach and causes peptic ulcers and adenocarcinoma. We have previously shown that H. pylori accumulates photoactive porphyrins making the organism susceptible to inactivation by light, and that small spot endoscopic illumination with violet light reduced bacterial load in human stomachs. This study assessed the feasibility and safety of whole-stomach intra-gastric violet phototherapy for the treatment of H. pylori infection.
STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS: A controlled, prospective pilot trial was conducted using a novel light source consisting of laser diodes and diffusing fibers to deliver 408-nm illumination at escalating total fluences to the whole stomach. Eighteen adults (10 female) with H. pylori infection were treated at three U.S. academic endoscopy centers. Quantitative bacterial counts were obtained from biopsies taken from the antrum, body, and fundus, and serial urea breath tests.
RESULTS: The largest reduction in bacterial load was in the antrum (>97%), followed by body (>95%) and fundus (>86%). There was a correlation between log reduction and initial bacterial load in the antrum. There was no dose-response seen with increasing illumination times. The urea breath test results indicated that the bacteria repopulated in days following illumination.
CONCLUSION: Intra-gastric violet light phototherapy is feasible and safe and may represent a novel approach to eradication of H. pylori, particularly in patients who have failed standard antibiotic treatment. This was a pilot study involving a small number of patients. Further research is needed to determine if phototherapy can be effective for eradicating H. pylori.
June 2009:
Best Poster Award at the 12th World Congress of the International Photodynamic Association was given to Wellman Center's research fellows Ulysses Sallum, PhD and Xiang Zheng, PhD during this year's conference in Seattle, Washington. All of the authors on this poster were Ulysses W. Sallum, Xiang Zheng, Josiah Gruber, Sarika Verma, Conor L. Evans, Humra Athar, Brian W. Pogue, Tayyaba Hasan.
Their poster, “Optical Theranostics for Drug Resistant SSTIs” was one of 4 posters selected for a Best Poster Award this past June.
Fabulous work!
June 2009:
Prakash Rai, Adnan Abu-Yousif, Lei Zheng won awards for their posters during the Office for Research Career Development (ORCD) poster session on June 8th.
Poster of Distinction Poster of Excellence Poster of Merit
Prakash Rai, PhD Adnan Abu-Yousif, PhD Lei Zheng, PhD
Well done!
May 2009:
Tayyaba Hasan, PhD was recently elected as the next president of the American Society for Photobiology (ASP) starting August 9, 2009 at the ASP Summer Council Meeting.
Best wishes!
May 2009:
Mei Wu, MD, PhD recently received an award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for her continued research in infectious diseases. Mei's research funding is one of five projects mentioned in the Associated Press' article.
Great job Mei!
May 2009:
Wellman Center's Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD was recently inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), a highly esteemeed physician-scientist honor society. Only 79 members were inducted into ASCI this year.
For additional information ont the American Society for Clinical Investigation, please click on their website as well as a link to Hensin Tsao ’s profile on ASCI's website.
Fantastic Hensin!
April 2009:
The Wellman Center for Photomedicine at MGH is pleased to announce the appointment of Gary Tearney, MD, PhD as the first Associate Director of the Center. In concert with the Director and faculty of the Center, Dr. Tearney will focus on two objectives:
- Foster broader research programs that strategically combine multiple laboratories, technologies, and approaches.
- Strengthen Wellman Center’s capacity for translational research, including preclinical, clinical, intellectual property and technology transfer aspects.
Dr. Tearney is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, who joined the Wellman Center in 2001. He and colleague Brett Bouma, PhD have established an internationally recognized optical imaging program at the Wellman Center that creates, develops and shepherds new technologies all the way to achieving a clinical impact. Examples include advanced optical coherence tomography, cardiac and GI imaging catheters now in human studies, micro-endoscopes, and smart needle devices. Wellman Center also has pipeline of therapeutic innovations for cancer, wound healing, infection, scarring, birth defects and obesity pursued in its faculty laboratories, and a wide range of basic research with multiple collaborations. Wellman has already made a major impact on health care and biomedical science, but can do more. We welcome Dr. Tearney’s new role and expertise, to further capture the potential of the Wellman Center for Photomedicine.
April 2009:
Dr. R. Rox Anderson, MD of Wellman Center was recently inaugurated as the new president for the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) for 2009-2010 at this year's annual conference held in National Harbor, Maryland.
Please see the press release for more information.
March 2009:
Dr. Tayyaba Hasan has been selected as a recipient of the 2008-2009 William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. This is a very prestigious award given to someone with a minimum of 20 years of service.
For more information, please see the Office For Diversity and Community Partnership.
Outstanding Tayyaba!
March 2009:
Dr. Alicia Carlson of Wellman Center was selected as the ECOR Medical Discovery Fund Award Winner.
Alicia Carlson, Ph.D. was recently selected to receive a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the MGH Fund for Medical Discovery (FMD). Alicia’s application, "Two-photon in vivo flow cytometry of circulating leukocytes using endogenous tryptophan fluorescence contrast", was chosen from among a very competitive group of applications reviewed by the ECOR Subcommittee on Review of Research Proposals (SRRP).
This award is given on an annual basis; out of 889 applicants, only 22 recipients received the award this year.
Congratulations, Alicia!
March 2009:
Dr. Pawel Mroz of Wellman Center received the Genzyme-Partners Healthcare Initiative Translational Grant for his project titled "The Functional Inhibition of T Regulatory Cells by Anti-TBFβ Antibody Potentiates Photodynamic Therapy of Renal Cancer."
There was only one proposal selected for award.
March 2009:
Drs. Irene Kochevar and Robert Redmond have developed a technology that has the potential to replace the surgeon's needle and thread. Using surgical lasers and a light-activated dye, the researchers are prompting tissue to heal itself.
Please see MIT's Technology Review for more information on this innovative research.
Well done to you both!
January 2009:
Melissa Suter and Leilei Peng were both K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award Recipients to funding from National Institutes of Healths (NIH).
Melissa's project titled "Optical Imaging of the Pulmonary Airways in the Assessment of Lung Cancer" and Leilei's project titled "Densely Multiplexed Fluorescence Imaging by Fourier Transform Flourometry" were chosen from among many excellent proposals.
Congratulations Melissa and Leilei!
November 2008:
Brett Bouma and Gary Tearney's innovative imaging research was featured on ABC News: Good Morning America. This innovative research involves real-time imaging translated into a colorized video that doctors will be able to use to better investigate and examine the heart and early signs of heart disease.
The video segment is available through ABC's website.
Congratulation Brett and Gary!
November 2008:
Tianhong Dai, PhD was the third recipient to receive the Bullock-Wellman Fellowship award. The title of Tianhong's proposal is "Photodynamic therapy in-vivo for multi-drug resistant wound infections". Tianhong's Wellman faculty mentor is Mike Hamblin, the external collaborator is Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, MGH. The Bullock-Wellman Fellowship was featured in the fall Red Book solicitation for Harvard Medical School.
Proposals were evaluated for scientific quality, originality, enabling collaboration, potential medical and scientific impact and potential for career development of the Fellow. All proposals were considered to be excellent, and covered a wide range of important topics.
Congratuations Tianhong!
August 2008:
MGH Cancer Center honors Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD, one of Wellman's clinical dermatologists, in its first annual celebration of the one hundred. The one hundred honors individuals and groups who help contribute to MGH Cancer Center's success as a leader in cancer care and in cancer research.
For more information, please see the one hundred.
July 2008:
Conor Evans and Giuliano Scarcelli have both received a 2008 Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corporation (MBRC).
Conor's project titled "Multimodality Microendoscope for the Detection of Metastatic Ovarian Cancer" and Giuliano's project titled "Brillouin Confocal Microscopy for In Vivo Biomechanical Characterization of Cornea and Lens" were chosen from among 70 excellent proposals considered by the MGH Executive Committee on Research (ECOR). This was a very competitive review, only 6 applicants received an award.
Congratulations Conor and Giuliano!
July 2008:
Multiple Wellam staff received awards in the 3rd Annual MGH Research Fellows Poster Celebration. This year's recipients included Zhiming Mai, Giuliano Scarcelli, Imran Rizvi, Pilhan Kim, Ulysses Sallum, and Jonathon Celli.
Fanstastic!
July 2008:
Joji Fujisaki, M.D. was recently selected as the second recipient of the Bullock-Wellman Fellowship Award. The title of Joji’s project is “Immune Privilege in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche.”
Joji, along with his internal mentor Dr. Charles Lin and his external mentors Dr. David Scadden and Dr. Megan Sykes, is testing his novel hypothesis that the hematopoietic stem cell niche has local immune suppressive mechanisms to protect hematopoietic stem cells from pathogenic immunity.
Good job Joji!
June 2008:
Noemi Rubio Romero won a Frederick Urbach Memorial Travel award to attend the 34th Meeting of the American Society for Photobiology (June 20-25, 2008-Burlingame, CA). She presented an oral communication entitled: "Mechanisms of bystander signaling following photodynamic stress". The authors of the work are: Noemi Rubio and Robert W. Redmond.
Well done Noemi!
May 2008:
Frank Henry is one of the 2008 winners in the 15th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Presentation Day held at The Conference Center at Harvard Medical School on May 16, 2008. He won in the category of Basic Science presenting "Improved Outcomes following Peripheral Nerve Repair using a Photochemical Technique".
For more information, please click here.
Congratulations Frank! Well done!
April 2008:
Multiple Wellman staff received awards from this year's annual ASLMS conference in Kissimmee, Florida. Awards given to the Wellman recipients ranged from travel awards to research grant awards.
To view the list and abstracts of each recipient, please click here.
Congratulations everyone!
April 2008:
Wellman Staff receive the prize for their poster at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center (DFCI/HCC) Ovarian Cancer Symposium held in April 2008. Recipients of this prize are: Imran Rizvi, Jonathan Celli, Conor L. Evans, Daina Burnes and Tayyaba Hasan.
To view the abstract of their poster, please click here.
February 2008:
The Lin group's flow cytometer helps study blood flow in mice retina by improving the method of scanning and the amount of volume scanned compared to the original cytometer.
For the full article, please click here.
February 2008:
Jeon Woong Kang, Ph.D. was recently awarded a travel prize by the Optical Society of Korea as an OSA-OSK 2008 for a research presentation on “Three dimensional shape measurement of a micro Fresnel lens with in-line phase-shifting digital holographic microscopy.”
For more information, please click here.
January 2008:
Giuliano Scarcelli and Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun appeared in a journal article in Analytical Chemistry. They presented their work at this year's Photonics West BIOS conference and were noted for their innovative research using the Brillouin confocal microscope.
Well done!
For the link to this article, please click here.
Winter 2007/2008:
Wellman Center's Founder, Dr. John A. Parrish, and current Director, Dr. Rox Anderson, are joint recipients of the Dermatology Foundation's 2007 Discovery Award.
For the full article on the Dermatology Foundation award, please click here.
January 2008:
Brett Bouma has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He will be formally inducted at the Society's fall meeting.
Congratulations Brett!!!
For the full listing of named fellows, please click Optical Society of America.
November 2007:
Seemantini Nadkarni, Brett Bouma, and Guillermo Tearney’s poster "Development of laser speckle imaging: a new technique for the evaluation of unstable atherosclerotic plaque" received the award for first place at CIMIT’s 2007 Poster Competition in the Most Innovative Research category.
For more information on the poster, please click here.
Please click Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT) for more information on this center.
September 2007:
Wellman Center teamed with Harvard Medical School to host this year's conference with specialists from around the globe. Specialists gathered to discuss and explore the realities regarding Laser & Aesthetic Skin Therapy. Another successful year to a great conference!
"Laser & Aesthetic Skin Therapy: What's the truth?" 2008 conference has been scheduled for October 10-12, 2008. For information to the upcoming conference, please click here.
July 2007:
Frank Henry, MD and Chunqiang Li, PhD are the first recipients of the Wellman Bullock Fellowship Award. The title of their project is "In vivo microscopy of the peripheral nerve: assessment of structural and quantitative changes following injury and repair by photochemical tissue bonding". Their Wellman faculty mentors are Irene Kochevar, Charles Lin and Andy Yun. External collaborators are Mark Randolph and Daniel Côté.
Congratulations, Frank and Chunqiang!
June 2007:
Frank Henry, M.D., Research Fellow on Irene Kochevar's team, was the winner of the "Joseph E. Murray, M.D. Award" for the best presentation at the annual meeting of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, held June 1-3, 2007 in Newport, Rhode Island.
His presentation was titled:
"Real Time In Vivo Imaging of the Nerve Microenvironment with Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy"
Congratulations, Frank!
Spring 2007:
Hyle Park-Optical Detection of Neural Activity with Phase Sensitive Interferometry awarded by NIH/NIBIB. This project aims to develop a minimally invasive optical method for detecting activity in single neurons and behavior in larger functional neural networks.
Ben Vakoc-Image Guided Therapy for Barrett's Esophagus awarded by NIH/NCI. This project aims to develop an endoscopic therapy system capable of localized targeting and controlled treatment of Barrett's Esophagus by integrating the capabilities of optical coherence tomography and laser thermal therapy.
Alexandra Chau- Development of an Intracoronary Raman Spectroscopy System awarded by NIH/NIBIB. The aim of this project is to investigate the combined use of fingerprint and high wavenumber Raman spectroscopy for diagnosing atherosclerosis by building and testing a catheter -based Raman spectroscopy system for plaque diagnosis suitable for in vivo human coronary artery use.
Brian Goldberg- Real Time Monitoring of Laser Ablation with OCT awarded by NIH/NIBIB. The overall goal of this work is to develop miniature, hand-held optical guidance methods that can be incorporated within a needle (an optical "smart" needle) to guide and improve results of fine needle aspiration for breast biopsy.
May 2007:
Presenting at the meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in May 2007, Dr. Johannes de Boer described how the development of ultra-high speed OCT at the Wellman Center has enhanced the clinical value of the technology for diagnosis and treatment monitoring of various eye diseases.
Please click here for more information on ultra-high speed OCT.
Congratulations, Johannes!
April 2007:
Wellman staff received awards at this year's American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Conference (ASLMS) in Grapevine, Texas, where the world's leading experts present research in technological applications and clinical applications in laser medicine and surgery.
For a listing of the awards received to the Wellman staff, please click here.
February 30, 2007: Dr. Hensin Tsao presents on the human genome at the 65th Annual American Academy of Dermatology Conference in Washington, D.C.
Attendees of Dr. Hensin Tsao's lecture session at the 65th Annual American Academy of Dermatology Conference in Washington, D.C. were delighted during the presentation and discussion of the recent advancements on the understanding and the design of the human genome.
Full presentation of annoucement: please click here.
January 30, 2007: Dr. Robert Webb presents a tutorial on the basics of presentation skills.
Robert Webb, Ph.D. presented a tutorial on the required skills and techniques in order to have a successful presentation with your audience. Topics covered were non-ideal font types, background colors, text colors, and what is considered to be proper stances.
Full presentaion with notes: please click here.
November 19, 2006: Wellman optical imaging technology advance provides virtual biopsies of internal surfaces.
Scientists at Wellman Center for Photomedicine developed a new imaging technique that surpasses optical coherence tomography (OCT), another noninvasive imaging technique limited to smaller regions.
Full presentation of annoucement:
http://www2.massgeneral.org/news/releases/111906bouma.html
November 2006: Charles Lin, PhD honored by the Optical Society of America.
Charles P. Lin, Associate Professor at HMS and head of the Advanced Microscopy Lab at the Wellman Center, has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Dr. Lin was cited by OSA for development of innovative biomedical imaging instruments for studying living animals and their use in answering significant questions in biology.
Fall 2006: As reported in Nature, Wellman scientists achieve a major advance in diagnostic imaging with their miniature endoscope.
Wellman Center scientists have achieved a major advance in diagnostic imaging within the human body with the development of a new, miniature endoscope capable of producing high resolution, three dimensional images.
Full presentation of annoucement: http://www2.massgeneral.org/news/releases/101806tearney.html
