[MOS] Lester Wolfe Workshop 11/24/09 (revised date)

[Zina Queen]

Lester Wolfe Workshop in Laser Biomedicine
Probing blood disorders with light
Biomedical optics is playing an ever-increasing role in the 
diagnosis, monitoring
and treatment of a number of diverse diseases. This workshop will 
feature the role
of light in probing and monitoring of blood disorders. Malaria is one 
of the largest
killers in the under-developed world and optics and spectroscopy may provide a
cost-effective solution to detection and monitoring. Optics may also be used to
monitor blood glucose levels in diabetes in a less invasive fashion. 
Sickle-cell
anemia is another third-world blood disorder for which optics and 
imaging is being
used to study the mechanism of vaso-occlusion.

Keynote: Energy, evolution, and cancer
Donald Coffey, Johns Hopkins University
Compositional and structural assessment of biological tissues with 
polarized light
Alex Vitkin, Ontario Cancer Institute/ Princess Margaret Hospital
Raman spectroscopy is paving the way towards molecular diagnosis of malaria
Torsten Frosch, Institute for Photonic Technologies, Jena, Germany
Sickle cell disease: physics and pathophysiology
L. Mahadevan, Harvard University Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School


Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:30-6:00 PM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Grier Room, 34-401
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
Sponsored by the G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, MIT, MGH 
Wellman Laboratories, the
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and the 
Center for the Integration of
Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT)
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