{"id":173962,"date":"2026-05-04T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=173962"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:09:25","slug":"found-in-translation-darren-roblyers-path-from-hands-on-research-to-research-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2026\/05\/04\/found-in-translation-darren-roblyers-path-from-hands-on-research-to-research-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Found in Translation: Darren Roblyer\u2019s Path From Hands-On Research to Research In-Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Danny Giancioppo<\/p>\n<p>In order to measure blood pressure noninvasively, it may be prudent to measure how blood flows through the body using light rather than using the standard cuff-based technique. To detect fibrosis in the skin, one may find more luck using advanced optical imaging than relying on the currently used \u201cpinch\u201d scale. And to elevate the field of biophotonics, one may not simply focus on advancing the technologies itself, but the people, outlets, and resources within the research ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><span>This is the path\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/darren-roblyer-ph-d\/\"><span>Dr. Darren Roblyer (BME, ECE)<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0has been carving throughout his career, chasing both common and unsought biomedical engineering opportunities to improve clinical procedures and enhance the field for new and incoming voices.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics\/2026\/04\/27\/found-in-translation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at Photonics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to measure blood pressure noninvasively, it may be prudent to measure how blood flows through the body using light rather than using the standard cuff-based technique. To detect fibrosis in the skin, one may find more luck using advanced optical imaging than relying on the currently used \u201cpinch\u201d scale. And to elevate the field of biophotonics, one may not simply focus on advancing the technologies itself, but the people, outlets, and resources within the research ecosystem. This is the path Dr. Darren Roblyer (BME, ECE) has been carving throughout his career, chasing both common and unsought biomedical engineering opportunities to improve clinical procedures and enhance the field for new and incoming voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":173964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[899,1092,1075,907],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173965,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173962\/revisions\/173965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}