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<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Lester
Wolfe Workshop in Laser Biomedicine</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Probing
blood disorders with light</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Biomedical
optics is playing an ever-increasing role in the diagnosis,
monitoring</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">and treatment
of a number of diverse diseases. This workshop will feature the
role</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">of light in
probing and monitoring of blood disorders. Malaria is one of the
largest</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">killers in the
under-developed world and optics and spectroscopy may provide
a</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">cost-effective
solution to detection and monitoring. Optics may also be used
to</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">monitor blood
glucose levels in diabetes in a less invasive fashion.
Sickle-cell</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">anemia is
another third-world blood disorder for which optics and imaging is
being</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">used to study
the mechanism of vaso-occlusion.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Keynote: Energy,
evolution, and cancer</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Donald Coffey, Johns Hopkins
University</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Compositional and
structural assessment of biological tissues with polarized
light</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Alex Vitkin, Ontario Cancer
Institute/ Princess Margaret Hospital</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Raman spectroscopy is
paving the way towards molecular diagnosis of malaria</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Torsten Frosch, Institute for
Photonic Technologies, Jena, Germany</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Sickle cell disease:
physics and pathophysiology</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">L. Mahadevan, Harvard
University Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School</font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Tuesday,
November 24, 2009, 3:30-6:00 PM</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Grier Room,
34-401</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Refreshments
served at 3:00 PM</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Sponsored by
the G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, MIT, MGH Wellman
Laboratories, the</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Harvard-MIT
Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and the Center for the
Integration of</font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Medicine and
Innovative Technology (CIMIT)</font></div>
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