{"id":5842,"date":"2025-04-17T11:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5842"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:29:05","slug":"darren-roblyer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/darren-roblyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Roblyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2026 REU Project: <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/02\/18\/roblyer\/\" style=\"color: #008080;\">Fabricating customizable anisotropic phantoms for the assessment of clinical optical technologies<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span><strong>Dr. Roblyer&#8217;s<\/strong> research group develops new label free imaging modalities to diagnose disease and monitor therapies. A main thrust of the lab is development of new wearable and handheld technologies that can provide earlier assessments of therapy effectiveness for cancer, cardiovascular diseases, kidney disease, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous REU\/RET Projects Include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6605&amp;preview=true\">Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy for Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurements<\/a> (REU, 2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6581&amp;preview=true\">An Optical Phantom to Mimic Skin Affected by Scleroderma<\/a> (REU, 2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=6108&amp;preview=true\">Nano-Based Sensing of Tissue Environments in Deep Tissue<\/a> (REU\/RET, 2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<a href='https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?sortby=pubdate&#038;hl=en&#038;user=VHtsjR4AAAAJ&#038;view_op=list_works' class='button button'>Publications<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":22341,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10607,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5842\/revisions\/10607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}