Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Friday, November 30, 2007
Optical Imaging for Medicine and Biology: Applications in Cancer Detection
8:00AM-4:00PM, Cocktail Hour 4:00-5:00PM
The Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Host:
Professor Jerome Mertz, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University
College of Engineering
44 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215

Emerging Technology and Best Practices Seminar Series

Short Biography of Jeff Peterson, Ph.D., Director of Applied Biology

Prior to joining VisEn in January 2006, Jeff served as a Group Leader in the Pharmacology Department of Abbott Bioresearch Center (Worcester, MA), where he managed the Arthritis Group as well as provided Pharmacology and Biology leadership of key Drug Discovery Projects. Jeff began his career as a Neuroscientist/Immunologist at Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago, IL) and the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes (Denver, CO). He spent several years establishing expertise in mouse models of basic immune function, autoimmune and viral-induced multiple sclerosis, autoimmune diabetes, and alcohol-induced immunomodulation. Subsequently, Jeff joined Boehringer Ingelheim (Ridgefield, CT) to run the In Vivo Proof of Concept laboratory and built & led the Pharmacology Group at CuraGen Corporation, a genomics and biopharmaceutical company (Branford, CT), establishing a portfolio of experience in a wide variety of disease indications including autoimmune disease, cancer, radiotherapy-induced mucositis, kidney disease, and stroke.

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