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Congratulations Dr. Cindy Chen

We are very happy to announce the successful PhD defense of Cindy Chen. Cindy defended her work on holographic cytometry for sickle cell disease diagnostics. While it would be difficult to say goodbye to Cindy, her love of salmon, tennis, and board games, we won't have to just yet. Dr. Chen will…

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BIOS @ Biophotonics 2025

The BIOS lab recently attended the 2025 Biophotonics Congress in Coronado California. Deven Gupta, Norman Wang, Erin O'Kane and Clover Yang presented their most recent findings in both oral and poster presentations.

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BIOS Lab returns to SPIE Photonics West

Last week the BIOS Lab traveled to San Francisco to participate in SPIE Photonics West - one of the world's largest annual meetings showcasing advances in research and technology related to all things photonics.

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New generation of low-cost OCT, Top download!

Hillel Price's recent manuscript - Development of next generation low-cost OCT towards improved point-of-care retinal imaging was the most downloaded article in the most volume of Biomedical Optics Express. Congrats Hillel!

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BIOS and Bulls Win!

This past Taco Tuesday, the BIOS lab visited the Durham Bulls Athletic Park to see the Durham Bulls take on the Charlotte Knights on STEM night. It was an exciting game complete with a come back win for the Bulls. We even made it on the jumbotron ...TWICE

Dr. Wax and Haoran in CIEMAS after the defense

Congratulations Dr. Haoran Zhang!

As a great collaborator once said "Anotha One." Last week the BIOS lab celebrated another successfull PhD defense. Haoran has been a member of the lab for a long time, begining as a young masters student and growning into a senior PhD student role. During his time here Haoran has worked on a…

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Congratulations Dr. Kendall

The BIOS lab is pleased to announce that we have producted yet another PhD graduate earlier this month. Wesley Kendall successfully defeneded his work on clinical OCT and a/LCI projects with a focus on spectroscopic OCT diagonstics performed on colon polyps. During his time as a PhD student and…

Look Out for the BIOS lab at Optica Biophotonics Congress

The BIOS lab is going to have a strong presences at this spring's Optica (formerly OSA) Biophotonics Congress with 4 oral presentations. Cindy, Trey, George, and Albert will be representing the lab in Vancover this April. We will share the exact date, time, and location of their talks once…

Holographic Cytometry Textbook Chapter

Last summer Cindy, Hillel, and Adam wrote a chapter titled Holographic Cytometry: Imaging of Cells in Flow for the Joseph Rosen edited textbook, Holography - Recent Advances and Applications, from IntechOpen. The full textbook is now published and available. Our abstract is listed…

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Happy BIOS Halloween!

For Halloween this year Cindy lead the lab in a group costume of the animals from the animated movies Madagascar. From left to right: Jiayun as Marty the Zebra, Cindy as Skipper the penguin, Trey as Private the penguin, Albert as Rico the penguin, George as Kowalsky the penguin, Hillel as Alex…

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BIOS Lab Students Present Research at Annual Biophotonics Congress

This April, our lab's very own Trey Highland and Albert Rancu attended the annual Biophotonics Congress, hosted by Optica, in Fort Lauderdale

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Congratulations to Dr. Evan Jelly!

Congratulations to Dr. Evan Jelly who successfully defended his Ph.D on March 18th, 2022.

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The BIOS Lab Returns To Annual SPIE Photonics West

Last week the BIOS Lab traveled to San Francisco to participate in SPIE Photonics West - one of the world's largest annual meetings showcasing advances in research and technology related to all things photonics.

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Deep Imaging OCT is Top Download

Our lab's most recent publication exploring Dual-Axis OCT's ability to probe OCT signal deeper into highly scattering tissue (such as skin) was the most downloaded article for December 2021 and January 2022 for the journal Biomedical Optics Express.

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Eye Imaging Technology Breaks Through Skin by Crossing Beams

Our recent work using Dual-Axis OCT describes how we pushed OCT to greater depth for imaging skin.

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New post on our latest paper using holographic cytology to scan cells for signs of heavy metal exposure

Measuring the variability of thickness within thousands of cells per minute spots physical signs of cancer and carcinogenic exposure.

Dr. Ge Song

Congratulations to Dr. Ge Song!

Congratulations to Dr. Ge Song who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Development of Low-cost Imaging Tools for Screening of Retinal Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease" on November 17th, 2021. 

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BIOS Lab Presents Research at BMES

This October four PhD students from our lab attended the Biomedical Engineers Society's annual conference.

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Front Page News! OCT for monitoring transplant rejection chosen as cover article for recent issue of the Journal Of Biomedical Optics.

Our recent article by Jelly et al has been selected as the cover article for the most recent issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics published by SPIE.

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Julianna Bordas awarded Departmental Second Year Fellowship!

Julianna Bordas has been named a Thurstone Medical Imaging Fellow by Duke BME department.

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Evan Jelly invited to speak at first BioPhotonics Conference, October 26

Jelly reviews recent progress in developing Dual-Axis OCT (DA-OCT) as a powerful diagnostic tool to image deeper into highly scattering tissue.

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Dr. Wax provides keynote talk at SPIE meeting

Dr. Wax discusses methods for seeing deeper into engineered samples with dual-axis OCT at this year's SPIE's Digital Optical Technologies meeting.

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Evan Jelly receives SPIE Scholarship

Congratulations to Evan Jelly for being awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE!

Dr. Han Sang Park

Congratulations to Dr. Han Sang Park!

Congratulations to Dr. Han Sang Park who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Development of Quantitative Phase Imaging as a Diagnostic Modality with High-Throughput Implementation" on September 4th, 2020. 

Zach Steelman

Congratulations to Dr. Zach Steelman!

Zach Steelman successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Novel instrumentation for optical screening of epithelial dysplasia."

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Retinal Texture Could Provide Early Biomarker Of Alzheimer’s Disease

New imaging technique combines two technologies to spot early warning signs of Alzehimer’s disease in mice

Low-cost OCT paper is a 2019 top download

The low-cost OCT system demonstrated by Sanghoon Kim, Prof. Wax, and the BIOS lab has continued to attract broad interest.

OCT through a borescope garners top download honors

A recent paper by Evan Jelly, Zach Steelman, and Prof. Wax demonstrated high quality OCT imaging of knee cartilage through an endoscopic borescope, a development that could aid arthroscopic surgery.  This work was one of the most downloaded articles from Optics Letters in November 2019.

Clinical low-cost OCT paper catching eyes

The recent work first-authored by Ge Song is one of Translational Vision Science and Technology's most viewed articles of the month.  Click here to read "First Clinical Application of Low-Cost OCT."

Congratulations to Dr. Will Eldridge!

Will Eldridge is our newest Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Engineering.  Will defended his thesis entitled "Development of optical tools for the assessment of cellular biomechanics," which describes a variety of new quantitative phase imaging methods he developed to investigate the…

Light scattering review paper is an Optica top download

A newly published paper by Zach Steelman, Derek Ho, Ken Chu, and Professor Wax appearing in Optica has been ranked as the journal's third most downloaded item in the month of April 2019.  Entitled "Light-scattering methods for tissue diagnosis," this review article surveys and summarizes…

Congrats to Yang, Sanghoon, and Derek!

Three BIOS Lab graduate students became graduated students this weekend, receiving their diplomas to become newly minted Doctors of Philosophy.  Congratulations to Drs. Yang Zhao, Sanghoon Kim, and Derek Ho!

Congratulations to Dr. Derek Ho

Congrats to Derek Ho, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Development of Optical Technologies for Comprehensive Screening of Cervical Epithelial Health" on March 20, 2019!  

Congratulations to Dr. Sanghoon Kim!

It's defense season in the BIOS Lab, as Sanghoon Kim successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Thursday, July 19. Congratulations, Dr. Kim!

Congratulations to Dr. Yang Zhao!

Duke BME's newest Ph.D. is now Dr. Yang Zhao, who successfully defended his thesis project entitled "Deep tissue imaging with dual axis optical coherence tomography" on July 10, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Zhao!

Professor Wax goes to China

Dr. Adam Wax traveled to China in May to deliver an invited talk at the 138th Optoelectronics Forum.

Haoran Zhang receives fellowship

Master's student Haoran Zhang  has received a Student Research Fellowship from the Biomedical Engineering department for his project entitled “Computational Reconstruction of Angular Scattering Profiles Using a Single Multi-Mode Fiber.” Congratulations, Haoran!

Low-cost OCT paper is #1 download

A new paper by Sanghoon Kim and co-authors from the BIOS Lab was the top-ranked download from the journal Biomedical Optics Express in February 2018.  The article, titled "Design and implementation of a low-cost, portable OCT system," describes how a fully functional spectral domain OCT…

Speckle reduction paper is a top 10 download in January

Another work first-authored by Yang Zhao has been designated a Top Download.  In the month of January 2018, his paper was the 9th most downloaded article from the journal Biomedical Optics Express.  Entitled "Real-time speckle reduction in optical coherence tomography using the dual…

Dual-axis OCT paper is journal's #3 "Top Download"

A recent paper by Yang Zhao and other members of the BIOS Lab has garnered a Top Download distinction.  Their paper, "Dual-axis optical coherence tomography for deep tissue imaging," which appeared in Optics Letters' 12th issue of 2017, was the journal's third most downloaded article during…

Quantitative phase imaging of cell disorder receives media attention

One of our lab's recent research papers has caught the notice of the press.  An article in New Atlas highlights the findings of a Biophysical Journal paper, published by Ph.D.

MS Student Jawad Hoballah Receives Inaugural Fellowship

Congratulations to Jawad Hoballah!  Jawad was one of 11 Duke BME Master's students to receive the newly created Student Research Fellowship. Pratt News  

We bid farewell to Jason

After three years at the BIOS laboratory, we say goodbye to Jason...

BIOS lab work featured at Photonics.com

BIOS lab work by Jason Maher and Yang Zhao featured on Photonics.com Recent papers on OCT & Raman spectroscopy and on spectroscopic OCT for characterizing burns

BIOS lab members attend OSA BIOMED congress

The OSA BIOMED congress in Hollywood, FL was great fun.

Adam Wax gives the Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar at MIT

October 13, 2015 Cambridge, MA Nanoscale Imaging and Sensing of Live Cells  

Derek Ho presents a/LCI cervix results at SPIE/NIH Biophotonics from Bench to Bedside conference

September 24-25, 2015 Bethesda, MD Angle-resolved low coherence interferometry for the detection of cervical dysplasia in vivo