Monday 28th October 2024, 3pm UK time, online & in person, room JLT, University of Kent, UK
Monday 28th October 2024 Prof. Lev T. Perelman visited Applied Optics
Group and delivered a presentation with the title “Endocsopic Imaging
and Microscopy for precancer Detection and Cell Analysis” in JLT
room, Jennison building, and online.
Lev T. Perelman is the Mary Tolan and Edward Grzelakowski
Professor at Harvard University and the Director of the Center for
Advanced Biomedical Imaging and Photonics at BIDMC. Prior to
that, he was a Principal Scientist and Group Head at MIT.
Perelman’s research interests are primarily focused on the application
of optics and spectroscopy to life sciences and medicine. His group
pioneered biomedical light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) which is
now used for tissue characterization and in vivo detection of early
cancerous changes in various organs of the human body. Light
scattering spectroscopy was also extended to subcellular scales with
the development of label-free confocal light absorption and scattering
spectroscopic (CLASS) microscopy.
Perelman’s other contributions include demonstration, with
Katrin Kneipp, the world’s first single molecule detection with
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and explanation of
the vital role of stress confinement in short pulse laser ablation, a
basic mechanism of laser surgery. Perelman has mentored over 40
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with 9 now professors at
Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, and other schools.
Print screens and photos from his presentation can be found in NETLAS Newsletter No 51