2025 Best Paper BOEx Prize Winner – Richard Rosen, honorary doctorate of University of Kent,  Visiting Professor in the AOG

Congratulations to the Winner of the 2025 Biomedical Optics Express Best Paper Prize

Biomedical Optics Express (BOEx) is the principal interdisciplinary outlet for serving the biomedical optics and biophotonics communities, publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research related to optics, photonics, and optical imaging in biomedicine and biology.

To distinguish influential and pivotal research related to those topics, the Journal awards an annual Best Paper Prize, which recognizes one outstanding paper published in the Journal within the three previous years.

Congratulations to all the authors of this exceptional paper!

2025 BEST PAPER PRIZE WINNER

Imaging of vitreous cortex hyalocyte dynamics using non-confocal quadrant-detection adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy in human subjects
Justin V. Migacz, Oscar Otero-Marquez, Rebecca Zhou, Kara Rickford, Brian Murillo, Davis B. Zhou, Maria V. Castanos, Nripun Sredar, Alfredo Dubra, Richard B. Rosen, and Toco Y. P. ChuiThis paper delivers a groundbreaking achievement in non-invasively visualizing and tracking vitreous cortex hyalocytes in living human eyes, using an innovative approach to efficiently utilize quadrant-detection adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy. What particularly distinguishes this work is the exceptional image quality achieved with the proposed approach, despite these cells’ transparency. Such imaging enables detailed characterization of hyalocyte morphological dynamics and movement patterns and establishes a foundation for using these immune cells as potential biomarkers in retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

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Biomedical Optics Express recognizes the 2025 best paper prize winner: editorial