Former MTI lab member Dr. Austin Moy (now a postdoctoral scholar in James Tunnell’s laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin) is lead author on a paper describing quantitative measurements of the reduction in optical scattering that occurs during optical clearing of the brain.  The work is in collaboration with Drs. Rolf Saager and Tony Durkin at Beckman Laser Institute.  Congratulations Austin!

MTI lab researchers have articles featured on the covers of the August (Vol. 47, Issue 6) and September (Vol. 47, Issue 7) issues of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine.  In the article in Issue 6, Dr. Bruce Yang is lead author on his outstanding work involving integration of laser speckle imaging to monitor patients with capillary malformations known as port-wine stain birthmarks.  The article in Issue 7 involves work in collaboration with Dr. Tania Betancourt’s group at Texas State University, on the development and evaluation of nanoparticles that will emit fluorescent light only when they are “activated” by certain enzymes which tend to be overabundant in cancerous regions.  Congratulations to the MTI lab and Dr. Betancourt’s group!

Congratulations to Ben Lertsakdadet, who now is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering after passing the preliminary exam.

On 19 May 2015, Wes Moy successfully defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Alternative Therapies in the treatment of Port Wine Stain Birthmarks”.  On 1 July 2015, Wes will become a Hewitt research fellow, working with Dr. Brian Wong (Beckman Laser Institute, UC-Irvine).  Congratulations Wes!