News Our recent work on optical spectroscopy of tongue tumors has been published at Biomedical Optics Express2024-06-10 Our recent work on optical spectroscopy of tongue tumors has been published at Biomedical Optics Express. Paper can be found here: https://opg.optica Our lab research is featured on the College of Engineering website 2023-11-20 Our lab research is featured on the College of Engineering website. Thanks for the support from the College of engineering ! https://www.engr.uky.edu Our lab research is featured on the cover page of Markey Cancer Center website2023-11-20 Our lab research is featured on the cover page of Markey Cancer Center website! Thanks for the support from Markey Cancer Center! Our lab research is featured by UKnow2023-11-15 Our lab research is featured by UKnow. More details can be found here: https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-bioengineer-designs-tools-improve-treatment-h The lab gave a webinar talk to Photonics media on Oct 26 20232023-11-15 Our lab gave a webinar to photonics media on Oct 26, 2023 to introduce our most recent research on spectroscopy techniques. More details on the featu Our recent work on non-contact spectroscopy has been accepted by Biomedical Optics Express2023-09-19 Congratulations to the team on the work on the non-contact optical spectroscopy system being accepted by Biomedical Optics Express! Keep up the great The lab receives R01 award from NIDCR2023-08-02 We are so excited to receive the NIDCR R01 award to work on point-of-care optical spectroscopy technologies for oral cancer research for the next five Our recent work on optical metabolic assay has been accepted by Biomedical Optics Express !2023-07-05 Congratulations to Jing and other co-authors for your work on optical spectroscopic assay being accepted by Biomedical Optics Express ! Keep up the Jing won the first place for poster presentation at the Markey Cancer Research day. 2023-05-16 Congratulations to Jing for winning the first place for graduate student poster presentation among over 100 posters at the Markey Cancer Research day Maddie receives College of Engineering undergraduate summer research fellowship2023-04-21 Congratulations to Madison Hart, who has been awarded the college of engineering undergraduate research fellowship for summer 2023. This is the secon Madison receives Undergraduate Research Award from the department 2023-03-02 Maddie receives Undergraduate Research Fellow Award from the college2023-01-09 Congratulations to Madison Hart, who has been selected as a college of engineering undergraduate research fellow for Spring 2023. Maddie took BME395 The lab gave a webinar talk to Photonics media on Dec 08 20222022-12-08 Our lab gave a webinar to photonics media on Dec 08, 2022 to introduce our most recent research on spectroscopy techniques. More details on the featur The lab receives ACS-IRG grant 2022-11-24 The lab receives the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG). This grant will support the group to develop new metabolic imagin Three lab members gave oral presentations at BMES 2022 this Oct. 2022-10-21 Madison, Jing and Zahid attended the BMES 2022 and gave three oral presentations during the conferences in the second week of this Oct . Our recent work on nanoparticle concentration monitoring has been accepted by IEEE JSTQE ! 2022-09-09 Congratulations to you, Zahid, Jing and Madison for your work on optical spectroscopic method for nanoparticles monitoring being accepted by IEEE JSTQ The lab receives NIBIB trailblazer award2022-08-05 We are so excited to receive the NIBIB Trailblazer award to start working on non-destructive optical metabolic technologies for cancer therapy pre-eva Three abstracts from the Lab have been accepted for oral presentations by BMES 2022!2022-07-20 Congratulations to you, Madison, Jing, and Zahid for your abstract being accepted for oral presentations at BMES 2022! Keep up the good work. Our lab research is featured by uknow2022-07-05 https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-receives-renewed-114-million-grant-further-cancer-research The Lab Received Grant Support from Markey Cancer Center2022-07-05 Our Lab was awarded $50,000 through the Cancer Center Support Grant Pilot award at the Markey Cancer Center to develop personalized radiotherapy for b The Lab gave an invited talk at biophotonics conference 20212021-11-03 On Oct 27, 2021, the Lab gave an invited talk to introduce our work on point-of-care metabolic platforms for cancer research. More details can be foun Our Group Receives Igniting Research Collaborations Pilot Grant2020-12-02 Our project titled “Optical imaging of radiation-induced metabolic changes in human breast cancer organotypic tumor slices to predict radiotherapy re Our first peer reviewed journal article has been published!2020-10-19 Our first journal article has been published in Biomedical Optics Express. In this report, we identifed optimal fiber probe design for logitudinal mon We are hiring student for spring of 20212020-09-07 We have one position with research assistantship available for students who are interested in biomedical optics and tumor biology starting in spring/f We are hiring postdoc and graduate students! 2019-10-15 Students: we have one position with research assistantships available for students who are interested in biomedical optics and tumor biology starting