Department News

Our recent work on HNSCC radiation resistance has been published at Biophotonics Discovery

Jan 28, 2025

Our recent work on HNSCC radiation resistance has been published at Biophotonics Discovery: https://doi:10.1117/1.BIOS.2.1.012702.

Our recent work on optical spectroscopy has been published at Journal of Biomedical Optics

Jan 3, 2025

Our recent work on optical spectroscopy has been published at Journal of Biomedical Optics: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.29.12.125002

Our recent work on optical spectroscopy of tongue tumors has been published at Biomedical Optics Express

Jun 10, 2024

Our work on optical spectroscopy of tongue tumors has been published in Biomedical Optics Express: https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.528608

Our lab research is featured on the cover page of Markey Cancer Center website

Nov 20, 2023

Our lab research is featured on the cover page of Markey Cancer Center website! Thanks for the support from Markey Cancer Center!

The lab gave a webinar talk to Photonics media on Oct 26 2023

Nov 15, 2023

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 feature report can be found in the link below. https://www.photonics.com/Webinar.aspx?WID=939

Our lab research is featured by UKnow

Nov 15, 2023

Our lab research is featured by UKnow. More details can be found here: https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-bioengineer-designs-tools-improve-treatment-head-and-neck-cancer

Our recent work on non-contact spectroscopy has been accepted by Biomedical Optics Express

Sep 19, 2023

Congratulations to the team on the work on the non-contact optical spectroscopy system being accepted by Biomedical Optics Express! Keep up the great work.

The lab receives R01 award from NIDCR

Aug 2, 2023

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 years. Thank you to the NIDCR and the NIH!

Our recent work on optical metabolic assay has been accepted by Biomedical Optics Express !

Jul 5, 2023

Congratulations to Jing and other co-authors for your work on optical spectroscopic assay being accepted by Biomedical Optics Express ! Keep up the great work.

Jing won the first place for poster presentation at the Markey Cancer Research day.

May 16, 2023

Congratulations to Jing for winning the first place for graduate student poster presentation among over 100 posters at the Markey Cancer Research day event. Jing shared her research progress on the development of a portable optical metabolic assay for organotypical tumor models characterizations, which is supported by the NIBIB Trailbalazer R21 award.

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