Biomedical Photonics Laboratories

  • Vanderbilt University

    Improving breast cancer chemo by testing tumors in a dish

    One of the tragic realities of cancer is that the drugs used to treat it are highly toxic and their effectiveness varies unpredictably from patient to patient. However, a new “tumor-in-a-dish” technology is poised to change this reality by rapidly assessing how effective specific anti-cancer cocktails will be on an… Read More

    Oct. 28, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Mahadevan-Jansen elected a director of international optics society

    Anita Mahadevan-Jansen has been elected to the Board of Directors of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Her three-year term begins Jan. 1, 2014. Mahadevan-Jansen Mahadevan-Jansen, an acknowledged leader in biomedical photonics, is the Orrin H. Ingram Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of neurological surgery. As… Read More

    Oct. 18, 2013