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Rebekah A. Drezek, Ph.D.Associate Professor of BioengineeringAssociate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering Rice University |
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Point-of-Care Optical Technologies for Early Cancer Detection: Advances in Instrumentation and Nano-engineered Imaging Agents | |||
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Our laboratory conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of
biology, medicine, and engineering towards the development of novel
optical imaging technologies to detect, diagnose, and monitor disease
processes (particularly cancer) at the cellular and molecular levels
in vivo. In current medical practice, a final diagnosis of
cancer or a precancerous condition is achieved only after
histopathologic analysis of directed biopsies. Biopsies are painful
and invasive to the patient. Moreover, many of the complex changes in
cellular biochemistry and morphology that accompany the earliest stages
of a disease process are not detectable through routine microscopic
examination. Emerging photonics technologies provide the exciting
opportunity to capitalize on subtle biophysical changes in tissue to
provide quantitative, real-time, minimally invasive detection,
diagnosis, and monitoring of disease. In this presentation, I will
describe our past, present, and future research aimed at the
development and clinical translation of optical imaging tools to
improve women's health care. Development of nanoengineered, molecular
specific imaging agents will be an area of particular emphasis in the
talk.
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| Thursday, September 7, 2006 3:00 p.m. - Duncan Hall 3092 Rice University
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