Washington University, Children’s Hospital join national network to study causes of preterm birth
Washington University, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the March of Dimes are launching the March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
Wang receives prestigious NIH BRAIN initiative award
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished
Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering &
Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a
prestigious BRAIN Initiative Award from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). Wang’s three-year, $2.7 million award, is one of 58 grants totaling $46 million announced Sept. 30 by Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the NIH, in Washington, D.C.
Academy of Science of St. Louis honors four WUSTL researchers
Four Washington University in St. Louis researchers are being honored as outstanding scientists by the Academy of Science of St. Louis.
Wang wins IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
Lihong Wang, PhD, will receive the 2014 IEEE Biomedical
Engineering Award, the highest honor conferred by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in this field. Wang,
the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at
Washington University in St. Louis, was selected for his pioneering
contributions to the field of photoacoustic tomography, a novel imaging
technology he developed that uses light and sound to measure change.
Wang to use NSF grant for study of oxygen consumption in cells
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of
Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has
received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to study oxygen consumption rates of individual cells
using photoacoustic microscopy, a novel imaging technology he developed
that uses light and sound to measure change.
New imaging technique could speed cancer detection
Washington University biomedical engineer Lihong Wang, PhD, will explain his photoacoustic tomography technology April 3 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago.
New imaging technique moves from lab to clinic
Four applications of the new imaging technique photoacoustic tomography are moving into clinical trials. One is to visualize the sentinel lymph nodes that are important in breast cancer staging; a second to monitor early response to chemotherapy; a third to image melanomas; and the fourth to image the gastrointestinal tract. Biomedical engineer Lihong Wang believes photoacoustic tomography might also allow early diagnosis of cancer because the technique can reveal the hypermetabolism that is cancer’s hallmark.
Optical Society honors Lihong Wang
The Optical Society (OSA) has awarded the C.E.K. Mees Medal to Lihong V. Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. The medal was given for Wang’s seminal contributions to photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics community.
Imaging with light & sound: revolutionizing early cancer detection
For years, the field of optical imaging in biological tissue had languished, with few advances and no significant growth. The concept was promising — using light to image organs, cells, and blood vessels, noninvasively and without any radiation — but it seemed impossible to obtain high-resolution images at any significant depth. Then came Lihong V. […]
Guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue
Focusing light into a scattering medicum such as tissue has been a dream since the beginning of biomedical optics, according to Lihong Wang, PhD, WUSTL biomedical imaging expert. Previous techniques allowed light to be focused only within a millimeter of the skin. Now Wang has invented a technique called “TRUE” that uses an ultrasound guide star to allow scattered optical light to be focused deep within tissue.
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