PEOPLE

 

PROFESSOR Irving J. Bigio bigio@bu.edu
     
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE Ousama A'Amar oaamar@bu.edu
     
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Aysegul Ergin aergin@bu.edu
     
GRADUATE STUDENTS Kerry Lee Andken kerrylee@bu.edu
  Katherine Calabro kcalabro@bu.edu
  Christine Mulvey cmulvey@bu.edu
  Kurt Schoener ksmoroni@bu.edu
     
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS    
     
COLLABORATORS Eladio Rodríguez eladior@bu.edu
  Satish Singh satish.singh@bmc.org
     
ALUMNI Jean-Luc Castagner Post-Doc
  Jen Dobson MS
  Ramona Georgescu MS
  Sylvain Gioux Ph.D.
  Roberto Reif Ph.D.
  Eladio Rodríguez Ph.D.
  Chao Sheng Post-Doc
  Alan Stockdale Staff
  Jane Zhang MS

 

Bigio Holiday Party 2007

Irving J. Bigio  

Irving J. Bigio received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan in 1974.  From then until 2000 he was a scientific staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico), including service as Leader of the Laser Science and Applications Program (1988-1994). He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in Israel, a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and a Guest Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, England.  Dr. Bigio holds a number of patents for biomedical optics instrumentation, and has received three R&D-100 Awards for the development of biomedical optical devices.  Since February 2001 he has been at Boston University, where he is Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics.  Dr. Bigio serves on several government advisory panels and on external advisory boards for companies and academic institutions.  He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a member of the American Physical Society and the SPIE.  In addition to other research programs in biomedical optics, Dr. Bigio is currently leading a multi-institutional program under the NIH/NCI Network for Translational Research in Optical Imaging, comprising several medical research centers in the US and Europe.
   
Ousama A'Amar  
Ousama M. A'Amar, BS in Electronics Engineering in 1989 and received his MS (1993) and PhD (1997) in automatic control and digital signal processing from the National Polytechnic Institute of Lorraine (INPL), France. His MS and PhD research work focused on optical biomedical signals; namely Autofluorescence and Induced-Fluorescence for cancer diagnosis and treatment. In 1996, he received the European Diploma in Medical Lasers from the University Nancy I, France and won the Young Researcher Prize of the French Society of Medical Lasers (SFLM). He worked as: Assistant Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan (1998/1999-2002/2003 – 2005/2006); Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Bioscience Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (1999-2001). He is currently working as Senior Research Associate at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Boston University, MA (2001- ). He works in the field of biomedical optics. He leads research activities on optical spectroscopy and biomicroscopy for cancer diagnostics including prototyping of clinical devices and serving as liaison for research collaborations with clinical sites at Boston University Medical Center and other clinical research centers in the Boston area.
   
Kerry Lee Andken  
Kerry Lee Andken (formerly Anderson) is originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She received her B.S. in biomedical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2003. Her research is optical monitoring of tumor angiogenesis. Kerry Lee's interests include intellectual property law, technology commercialization, and university-industry relations. Kerry Lee enjoys running and ran her first marathon in October of 2008. Her current research involves the detection of tumor angiogenesis.
   
Katherine Calabro  
Originally from Rochester NY, Katherine graduated from Penn State with a BS and a MS in Engineering Science in 2005 and 2006, respectively. She brought with her a background in Theoretical Electromagnetics and Modeling when she started at BU in the Fall of 2006. She is now a PhD Candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department. In the Biomedical Optics lab, she is working on the development and improvement of mathematical tools to model photon transport in tissue. Katherine enjoys spending time with her husband by skiing, biking, and doing home repair projects on the house they just purchased.
   
Aysegul Ergin  
Aysegul Ergin, originally from Istanbul, Turkey, received her BS degree in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul University and her MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Bogazici University in Istanbul , Turkey. She received her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in 2008. Her PhD research work was focused on the development of a laser glucometer, a compact and portable Raman spectroscopy system to detect and quantify glucose concentration in the aqueous humor of the eye to help diabetics. She joined the Biomedical Optics Lab in 2008 as a postdoctoral research associate to work on optical pharmacokinetics, drug extravasation and optical detection of blood-brain barrier disruption in vivo.
   
Christine Mulvey  
Christine is a graduate student pursuing a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering. She received an S.B. degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2004. Her current research with the Biomedical Optics Group involves the application of elastic scattering spectroscopy to the detection of apoptosis, a type of cell death important in the treatment of cancer. In her spare time, Christine enjoys playing with her family, cooking, rooting for the Red Sox, and cruising in her Mustang.
   
Kurt Schoener  
Originally from New Jersey, Kurt matriculated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania with a BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering and a BA in International Affairs.  He is now a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.  Under the direction of Irving Bigio in the Biomedical Optics Lab, Kurt’s research is focused on high-spatiotemporal-resolution imaging of action potential propagation in brain tissue by applied speckle holography.