News & Events
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 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://www.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://www.massgeneral.org/news/releases/101806tearney.html
