11/30/2012: Congratulations to graduate student Wes Moy, who has advanced to PhD candidacy!

10/26/2012: New publications in Optics Letters and Tissue Engineering: Part C

6/16/2012: Congratulations to graduating students Derek Arndt, Bernard Capulong,Victoria Deangelo, Ryan Farraro, John Guzman, Ryan Hingorani, Ben Lertsakdadet,Cameron Moore, Justin Moy, Paul Nguyen, Katherine Nielsen, and Maggie Young. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Congratulations to junior specialist Rajan Arora who will be attending medical school at George Washington University this fall. Best of luck!

Congratulations to graduate student Austin Moy, who has received a Dean’s Dissertaton Fellowship for Fall 2012!

Congratulations to undergraduate students Patrick Lo and Chelsea Pittman, who have received Edwards LifeSciences Center SURP fellowships for the summer, as well as Matt Wiersma and Christian Crouzet, who have also received SURP summer fellowships!

2/27/2012: Congratulations to graduate student Wes Moy, who has been awarded a UCI graduate student research and travel award

2/21/2012: New publications in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (W. Moy et al., W. Jia et al.)

1/11/2012: Congratulations to undergraduate students Cameron Moore, Julee Sun, andRyan Farraro on receiving UROP fellowships for this year. Great job!

12/19/2011: Check out this SPIE video feature on the Beckman Laser Institute

11/14/2011: New publication in Microvascular Research

8/9/2011: Congratulations to Prof. Bernard Choi, who recently received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor!

Congratulations to Michael Campos and Jon Pham, who are graduating with their MS degrees in BME. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

7/7/2011: Congratulations to MTI lab alumni Kim Bui, Kathleen Teves, Charlie Stoianovici, and Elaine Nguyen, who have been accepted to the following graduate programs: Kim will be in the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) Medical Master’s Program, Kathleen will be in medical school at EVMS, Charlie will be attending dental school at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Dentistry, and Elaine will be attending medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University. Great work!

6/10/2011: Congratulations to the graduating undergraduate members of the lab: Derek Arndt, Rajan Arora, Robert Dao, Cindy Lee, Shreyas Patel, and Steven Truong. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Welcome back to Shreyas Patel and Steven Truong, who will be continuing in the lab as graduate students!

Congratulations to current undergraduate students John Guzman, Ryan Hingorani, Lynn Tran, and Maggie Young who all received SURP fellowships for the summer, great job!

New publication in Microvascular Research

4/6/2011: Featured article on the UCI Engineering website

Graduate students Bruce Yang and Austin Moy presented at the ASLMS Annual Conference (30 March-3 April) in Grapevine, TX

Welcome to graduate student Ling Kong, who is rotating in the lab for spring quarter!

2/1/2011: Congratulations and farewell to Eugene Huang, who is moving on to new endeavors, best of luck!

Congratulations to Elmer Indrawan, who has completed his MS degree in biomedical engineering. Great work!

Congratulations to undergraduate student Katherine Nielsen, who has received a UROP Fellowship for the 2010-2011 academic year. Nice work!

New publication in Journal of Biomedical Optics

1/18/2011: Graduate students Sean White and Owen Yang will be presenting at SPIE (22-27 January) in San Francisco

12/13/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Austin Moy, who has received a travel grant to the 2011 American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) annual conference

11/22/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Bruce Yang, who has successfully advanced to PhD candidacy. Great job!

11/10/2010: Check out our public MTI lab presentations

11/1/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Bruce Yang, who has been appointed a TL-1 Scholar through the UC Irvine Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. Great work!

9/17/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Sean White, who successfully advanced to PhD candidacy in August and welcome to Wes Moy, who will be continuing as a graduate student in the fall

8/13/2010: New publication in Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences

6/16/2010: Congratulations and farewell to the graduating members and affiliates of the lab:James Homan, Sanjeev Karma, Andrew Liang, Elaine Nguyen, Ricky Suen, Victor Sun, Kathleen Teves, and Clement Yaori. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

5/11/2010: Check out the lab representation at ASLMS 2010, great work!

The lab has also been awarded the Dean’s Triumvirate Grant through the UC Irvine School of Medicine, click here for more info

4/7/2010: Congratulations to graduate student Sean White who has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and to graduate student Bruce Yang who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention. Excellent work!

3/19/2010: Congratulations to Prof. Choi, who has received a “Faculty of the Year” award for the 2nd year in a row from the Engineering Student Council! Check out the official announcement for more info

3/2/2010: Congratulations to Charlie Stoianovici, whose paper entitled “Assessment of Pulp Vitality Using Laser Speckle Imaging” has been selected as the Best Student/Resident paper submitted in the Dentistry/Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery section for the 30th ASLMS Annual Conference! Great job!

2/26/2010: Welcome to Jon Pham who will be starting as a graduate student in the lab!

1/26/2010: The lab has been awarded the Dean’s Triumvirate Grant through the UC Irvine School of Medicine!

10/16/2009: New publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

8/27/2009: Congratulations to Yu-Chih (Eugene) Huang, PhD, who has successfully defended his dissertation!

Congratulations to Austin Moy, who has successfully advanced to PhD candidacy!

Welcome to Bruce Yang, who will be continuing as a graduate student in the lab!

We are also pleased to announce that “Blood Flow Dynamics after Laser Therapy of Port Wine Stain Birthmarks” (Huang et al.) has been accepted for publication in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

6/17/2009: Welcome (back) to Mike Campos, Elmer Indrawan, and Sean White (co-advised by Prof. Steve George) who will be continuing as graduate students in the lab, and medical student Albert Bui, who will be working in the lab for the summer

6/12/2009: Congratulations and farewell to the graduating members of the lab: Kim Bui,Angelica Byrne, Sam Costantini, Carlos Cossio, Erinn Kim, Anton Licas, Anthony McClure, Hannah Schreibeis-Baum, Charlie Stoianovici, and Sumitro Wiryo. Best of luck in your future endeavors!

6/8/2009: Congratulations to undergraduates Elaine Nguyen and Victor Sun, who both have been appointed ID-SURE Fellows [link] for Summer 2009! Great job!

5/17/2009: The MTI Lab has been awarded a grant (R03) from the National Institutes of Health to pursue clinical applications of laser speckle imaging in image-guided surgery

5/14/2009: Congratulations to graduate student Austin Moy, who has been awarded an SPIE Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering [press release], well done!

3/28/2009: Congratulations to Prof. Choi, who has received a “Professor of the Year” award from the Engineering Student Council! Check out the official announcement for more info.

2/23/2009: New publications in Applied Optics and Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

1/8/2009: Happy New Year! Welcome to Bruce Yang (BME), a rotating graduate student! We are also pleased to announce two new papers accepted for publication:

M. Zimmerley, R.A. McClure, B. Choi, E.O. Potma, “Following dimethyl sulfoxide skin optical clearing dynamics with quantitative nonlinear multimodal microscopy,” Appl. Optics (2008, in press)

A.K. Bui, R.A. McClure, J. Chang, C. Stoianovici, J. Hirshburg, A.T. Yeh, B. Choi, “Revisiting optical clearing with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO),” Laser. Surg. Med. (2008, in press)