<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; ">Lester Wolfe Workshop in Laser Biomedicine</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 6pt; "><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; ">“Light in the brain:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; ">neurodegeneration and neuroprotection”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 20pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><u></u><span style="width: 651px; min-height: 15px; "><img height="3" width="651" id="dda992c8-0fd0-496a-b152-130fd8d1ed14" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.png@01CE4004.00F8B830"></span><u></u><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(23, 54, 107); ">In recent years two trends have led to growing concerns about the impact of traumatic and degenerative brain disorders on public health. One is the overall aging of the population now that many physical diseases can be successfully treated, and the second is the large number of returning blast-injured warriors with mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. This timely workshop will look at the role of optics and light in non-invasively diagnosing, imaging and treating these traumatic and degenerative diseases of the brain.</span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u></u><span style="width: 651px; min-height: 11px; "><img height="2" width="651" id="e2e864fe-2048-4023-9385-9f516cb85b58" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.png@01CE4004.00F8B830"></span><u></u><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Shedding light on neurodegenerative processes in Alzheimer’s disease<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Tara L. Spires, DPhil, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Functional Monitoring of Blood Flow and Concentration Dynamics for Managing Brain Injury<i><u></u><u></u></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Arjun G. Yodh, James M. Skinner Professor of Science, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Label-free Spectroscopic Imaging of white matter injury and repair<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Ji-Xin Cheng, Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; "><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Transcranial phototherapy for traumatic brain injury and beyond<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Michael R. Hamblin, PhD, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 4pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><u></u><span style="width: 651px; min-height: 12px; "><img height="2" width="651" id="05b85f25-8371-4d44-8e1a-a5e91d9fede8" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.png@01CE4004.00F8B830"></span><u></u><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><h1 style="text-align: center;line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; "><u></u> <u></u></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><h1 style="text-align: center;line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; ">Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 3:30-6:00 PM<u></u><u></u></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Massachusetts General Hospital<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Simches Research Building, 3<sup>rd</sup> Floor, Room 3110<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Refreshments served at 3:00 PM, Room 3130<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; ">Sponsored by the G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, MIT, MGH Wellman Center for Photomedicine, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology<u></u><u></u></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div></body></html>