The workshop brought together experts in the diagnosis and treatment of several important health issues we face today. The format included talks by leading experts in the biophotonic field, as well as panels of experts addressing the needs for fast cures and overcoming barriers to translational medicine.

The event featured two Poster Sessions in addition to the sessions of invited speakers. 


The meeting concluded 2 October 2009.

The meeting featured experts at the forefront of efforts to discover and develop the latest light-based tools for applications to diagnose and treat disease and apply technologies to address cures in the following areas:

• Eye
• Brain
• Breast
• Molecular Probes and Targets
• Vascular
• Microscopes to Endoscopes
• Stem Cells

Workshop Chairs


   Amir Gandjbakhche,
   National Institutes of Health

    Bruce Tromberg,
    Univ. of California/Irvine

Workshop Technical Coordinator
             

    Jana Kainerstorfer,
    National Institutes of Health

Program Committee

Houston Baker, National Cancer Institute
Randall Barbour, SUNY Downstate Medical Ctr.
Albert-Claude Boccara, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (France)
Victor Chernomordik, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Stavros Demos, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
James Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Israel Gannot, Tel-Aviv Univ. (Israel) and George Washington Univ. 
Enrico Gratton, Univ. of California, Irvine
Jeremy Hebden, Univ. College London (United Kingdom)
Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Columbia Univ.
Ilko Ilev, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Peter Kirchner, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Jay Knutson, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Alan Koretsky, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Dennis Matthews, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Nicole Morgan, NIH Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science
Mary-Ann Mycek, Univ. of Michigan
Robert Nordstrom, National Institutes of Health
Brian Pogue, Dartmouth College
Kambiz Pourrezaei, Drexel Univ.
Jessica Ramella-Roman, The Catholic Univ. of America
John Schotland, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Behrouz Shabestari, National Institutes of Health
Paul Smith, NIH Division of Bioengineering and Physical Science
Mamoru Tamura, Hokkaido Univ. (Japan)
Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke Univ.
Ronald Waynant, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Yantian Zhang, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering