The Catholic University of America

Metropolitan Biophotonics Symposium

April 6, 2009

Host: The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

Chair: Jessica Ramella-Roman, PhD (Catholic Univ.)

Co-chair: Josh Pfefer, PhD (FDA)

Organizing Committee:

Amir Gandjbakhche, PhD (NIH),Ilko Ilev, PhD (FDA),Baohong Yuan, PhD (Catholic Univ.) and Jason Zara, PhD (George Washington Univ.)

We cordially invite biophotonics researchers from academia, industry, and federal agencies in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia to join us for a unique, one-day conference. The Metropolitan Biophotonics Symposium (MBS) will include 24 presentations from established and up-and-coming researchers in the region, a plenary talk by Dr. Robert Nordtrom from NCI, and opportunities to network with colleagues over coffee breaks, lunch and an evening reception.

In recent years, the amount of biophotonics research performed in this region has increased dramatically. While some level of collaboration between groups in the area has existed for many years, there has not been a centralized forum for interaction between local researchers. In addition to providing participants with an update on progress on a wide range of biophotonics topics, MBS will provide a rare opportunity for networking, discussing research ideas and identifying local collaborators with world-class expertise in subjects ranging from optical nanomaterials to clinical application to instrumentation to computational modeling.

Plenary speaker: Dr. Robert Nordstrom, Program Director, Cancer Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Directions to the Symposium

Scientific presentations: See Symposium Program

Four sessions of 15-minute talks on the following topics:

  • Light-tissue Interaction
  • Microscopy and Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Nanophotonics and Molecular Imaging
  • Macro Imaging