Thursday, 1 October Speakers:
08:15 Introductory Remarks
Session 1 – Introduction: Early Cure; Fast Cure
Session Chairs: Amir H. Gandjbakhche, National Institutes of Health and Bruce J. Tromberg, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Ctr.
- Amir H. Gandjbakhche, National Institutes of Health
- Bruce J. Tromberg, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Ctr.
- Robert Balaban, National Institutes of Health
- Belinda Seto, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH
- Sheldon Miller, National Eye Institute, NIH
10:00 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Eye
Session Chairs: James Fujimoto, Massachusetts Instititute of Technology and Joel Schuman, University of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr.
- Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medizinische Universität Wien (Austria)
- David Huang, Keck School of Medicine, USC
- Cynthia Toth, Duke University
- Yoshiaki Yasuno, University of Tsukuba (Japan)
12:00 Lunch Break
Session 3 - Brain
Session Chairs: Sergio Fantini, Tufts University and Elizabeth Hillman, Columbia University
- Arno Villringer, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany)
- Joseph Culver, Washington University in St. Louis
- Jason Berwick, University of Sheffield (UK)
- Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt University
02:30 Coffee Break
Session 4 - Breast
Session Chair: Bruce J. Tromberg, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Ctr.
- Gregory Czarnota, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr., University of Toronto (Canada)
- Brian Pogue, Dartmouth College
- Nirmala Ramanujam, Duke University
- Lihong Wang, Washington University in St. Louis
04:30 Panel Discussion - Cost effectiveness
05:30 Award Presentation to Tayyaba Hasan, Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine
06:00 Poster Session I (PDF) and Reception
Friday, 2 October Speakers:
Session 5 – Molecular Probes and Targets
Session Chairs: Gary Griffiths, National Institutes of Health, and Samuel Achilefu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- David Piwnica-Worms, Washington University in St. Louis
- Israel Gannot, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- Jacek Capala, National Institutes of Health
- Stephen Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
09:30 Coffee Break
Session 6 - Vascular
Session Chairs: Gary Tearney, Massachusetts General Hospital and Joseph M. Schmitt, LightLab, Inc.
- Gary Tearney, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Brett Bouma, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Marco Costa, Case Western University Hospital
- Sergio Waxman, Lahey Clinic Medical Ctr.
11:30 Poster Session II (PDF) and Lunch Break
Session 7 – Microscopes to Endoscopes
Session Chairs: Jay Knutson, National Institutes of Health and Paul Smith, National Institutes of Health
- Scott Fraser, Beckman Laser Institute
- Joseph Izatt, Duke University
- Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice University
02:30 Coffee Break
Session 8 – Stem-Cell
Session Chair: Charles Lin, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Nady Golestaneh, Georgetown University
- Joseph Wu, Stanford University
- Irene Georgakoudi, Tufts University
- Christopher Contag, Stanford University
04:30 Panel Discussion - Barriers to Translation
05:30 NIH funding opportunities
Houston Baker, National Institutes of Health
