{"id":42,"date":"2011-03-15T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:36:49","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/about-us\/mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Biophotonic Sensors and Systems will focus on translational research where photonics provides the enabling technologies for advances in methods to detect\/sense and identify biological properties, conditions, or changes at the molecular and cellular\/sub-cellular level.\u00a0 Ultimately, we see photonics as a driver for early disease detection, reduction of health care costs, speedier and more effective treatment through personalized care and better patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of CBSS is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To create a national center of excellence for biosensor research with photonics as the enabling technology.<\/li>\n<li>To cultivate embryonic applications for biosensors.<\/li>\n<li>To advance biophotonic sensor technology, providing significant commercial benefits for disease diagnosis, patient monitoring, drug efficacy testing, and food and water safety.<\/li>\n<li>To develop effective methods for technology translation, accelerating innovative research to commercial benefit.<\/li>\n<li>To increase the quantity, quality and diversity of professionals prepared to work in this field.<\/li>\n<li>To involve the full technology and supply value chain in a common focus of solving critical unmet needs in the healthcare sector using biophotonic sensing solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cbss\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_0248-636x424.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0248\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_0248-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_0248-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_0248-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Biophotonic Sensors and Systems will focus on translational research where photonics provides the enabling technologies for advances in methods to detect\/sense and identify biological properties, conditions, or changes at the molecular and cellular\/sub-cellular level.\u00a0 Ultimately, we see photonics as a driver for early disease detection, reduction of health care costs, speedier and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4325,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/2932"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cbss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}