Irving Bigio
Undergraduate Chair (BME); Professor (BME, ECE, Physics, Medicine)
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon
The focus of Irving Bigio’s Biomedical Optics Lab is the development of minimally-invasive research-oriented and clinical (both diagnostic and therapeutic) tools, based on optical technologies. Applications span the breadth of the human body.
The lab’s projects include:
- Optical Biopsy: we develop tools to measure non-invasively the reflectance spectrum of biological tissues to diagnose diseases such as cancer and to identify tissue types.
- Sensors to monitor the response of tumors to specific treatments.
- Real-time imaging feedback systems for tissue profiling and guidance during surgery.
- Optical methods for noninvasive imaging of neural activation and brain function.
- Birefringence microscopy for high-resolution imaging of myelin and cerebral arteries, relevant to neurodegenerative diseases and neuronal connectivity.
- Departments
- Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Medicine, and Physics
- Affiliation
- Faculty