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Costas Pitsillides |
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Graduate Student
Lin Team
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| I first joined the Wellman Center for Photomedicine as a summer research intern at the end of my junior year. I came on board to work with Drs R. Rox Anderson and Charles P. Lin on a novel project involving the use of light-absorbing particles and brief laser pulses to selectively damage cellular targets. Following graduation, I returned to the group as a full-time research assistant and a graduate student, first at MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department and now at Boston University's Biomedical Engineering Department. What attracted me to Wellman was, foremost, the quality of the people working here, as well as the amazing array of interdisciplinary projects they were working on. I was especially impressed with their deep understanding and knowledge of physical and engineering principles, so vital to the successful execution of research projects at the interface of the clinical and engineering sciences. As a student here, I felt I would be in a unique position to take advantage of the enormous resources that the lab, the hospital and the university graduate departments could offer in order to enrich my graduate experience. |
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| My research training, combined with graduate coursework, has given me with the intellectual tools and thinking approach essential to a scientist as well as the means to do research at the interface of medicine and engineering. During my stay here, I have gained extensive experience in the field of lasers and optics for biomedical applications, with a deep knowledge of the issues governing the interaction of light with living tissue. I have helped develop optical-based systems and techniques for therapeutic applications in medicine, while my more recent research has focused on in vivo imaging applications. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Wellman Center, and certainly the opportunities available here for fruitful, interdisciplinary research interactions and collaborations are unparalleled. Having spent my graduate years doing biomedical research in a hospital-based laboratory, constantly interacting and collaborating with physicists, biologists, engineers and physicians, I hope that I will be optimally prepared for a career as a biomedical research scientist, where my work in the lab can be applied to, and help answer, important clinical and biological questions.
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