Biophotonics4Life (BP4L) Worldwide Consortium Co-Chairs

Director, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST), UC Davis, Sacramento, CA

Associate Director, UC Davis Integrated Cancer Program

Program Leader, Medical Technology Program, LLNL

Professor, UC Davis Department of Applied Science & School of Medicine

Dennis.Matthews@cbst.ucdavis.edu

916-734-4342

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada

Ontario Cancer Institute / Princess Margaret Hospital

Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI)

Wilson@uhnresearch.ca

416-946-2952, 416-946-4501 x 2952

Coordinator, Photonics4Life European Network of Excellence for Biophotonics

Scientific Director, Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany

Professor, Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Juergen.popp@ipht-jena.de

+49-3641-206-300

Biophotonics4Life (BP4L) Nodes and Node Leaders

Node 1

US West

Director, Beckman Laser Institute, Irvine, CA

Director, Laser Microbeam and Medical Program

Professor, Biomedical Engineering & Department of Surgery, UC Irvine

bjtrombe@uci.edu

949-824-8705

Professor, Biomedical Engineering & School of Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR

sjacques@bme.ogi.edu

503-418-9338 office, 503-418-9351 lab

Node 2

US Central

Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor & Professor of Radiology

Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University, St. Louis, MO

lhwang@biomed.wustl.edu

314-935-6152

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medicine

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

boppart@illinois.edu

217-244-7479

Node 3

US East

Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Program Leader, Optical Diagnostics, Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT)

tearney@helix.mgh.harvard.edu

617-724-2979

Node 4

Canada

Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada

Ontario Cancer Institute / Princess Margaret Hospital

Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI)

Wilson@uhnresearch.ca

416-946-2952, 416-946-4501 x 2952

Professor of Psychiatry & Neurosciences, Laval University

Director, Quebec Pain Research Network

Director, Division of Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience

Centre de Recherche, Université Laval Robert-Giffard, Quebec, Canada

Yves.dekoninck@crulrg.ulaval.ca

418-663-5747

Node 5

Mexico/Argentina/Chile

Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

oem@df.uba.ar

Node 6

Brazil

Centro de Pesquisas em Optica e Fotonica

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil

vander@ifsc.usp.br

Node 7

North-West Europe

Professor, School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

National Biophotonics and Imaging Platform Coordinator

Tia.Keyes@dcu.ie

+353-0-1-700-8185

Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

kd1@st-andrews.ac.uk

00 44 (0) 133446 x 3184

Node 8

Europe/Photonics4Life

Coordinator, Photonics4Life European Network of Excellence for Biophotonics

Scientific Director, Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany

Juergen.popp@ipht-jena.de

+49-3641-206-300

Node 9

Southern Europe

Professor, Head of the Biophotonics Group

European Laboratory for Non Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and Department of Physics, Firenze, Italy

Francesco.Pavone@unifi.it

+39-05-54-572-480

Assistant Professor, Medical Optics

ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Mediterranean Technology Park, Barcelona, Spain

Turgut.durduran@icfo.es

+ 34-93-553-41-51

Node 10

Benelux

Professor, Center for Optical Diagnostics and Therapy

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

h.j.c.m.sterenborg@erasmusmc.nl

(+31) (0)10 7032100

Node 11

Scandinavia

Professor, Deputy Head of PhD School

Terahertz Technologies and Biophotonics
Department of Photonics Engineering Technical University of Denmark

peta@fotonik.dtu.dk

+45 46 77 45 55

Professor of Physics, Lund University Medical Laser Centre

Stefan.Andersson-Engels@fysik.lth.se

+46 (0)46-222 31 21

Node 12

Central/Eastern Europe

Professor, Centrum für Biomedizinische Optik und Photonik (CeBop), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Vice-Coordinator, Photonics4Life European Network of Excellence for Biophotonics

Ce.BOP@uni-muenster.de

+49-251-8356888

Node 13

Israel

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

gannot@eng.tau.ac.il

972-3-6406711

Node 14

Russia

Professor, Head and Director, Chair of Optics and Biophotonics
Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics

Saratov State University, 83, Astrakhanskaya str., Saratov, 410012 Russia

tuchin@sgu.ru
tuchinvv@mail.ru

Ph. office: +7-8452-210-722
Ph. home: +7-8452-280-800
Ph. Mob.: +7-8452-919-710
Fax: +7-8452-278-529

Node 15

Taiwan

Professor, Institute of Biophotonics

Director, Biophotonics Interdisciplinary Research Center

National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

aechiou@ym.edu.tw

886-2-28267000 x 5120

Node 16

Singapore

Professor

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Via Morego, 30
16163 Genoa, Italy

colinjrsheppard@gmail.com

+65 6516 5549

Professor

Professor, Department of Bioengineering Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

biehzw@nus.edu.sg

+65 6516 8856

Node 17

Hong Kong

Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong

eequ@ust.hk

(852) 2358-8541

Node 18

China

Cheung Kong Professor, Director, Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics

Executive Deputy Director, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics

Vice President, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

qluo@mail.hust.edu.cn

(86)27 8754 2419 / 8779 2223

Joint Research Center of Photonics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) and Zhejiang University (China), Hangzhou, P.R. China

sailing@ieee.org

+86 (0)571 882 065 25

Node 19

Korea

Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Kangnam St. Mary’s Hospital,

College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea

ahnws@catholic.ac.kr

82-2-590-2786

Node 20

Australia

Professor, Centre for Biophotonics and Laser Science, School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

halina@physics.uq.edu.au

+61 (0)7 3365 3139

Winthrop Professor, Head, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, and Director, Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis

The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

David.Sampson@uwa.edu.au

+61 8 6488 7112

Node 21

New Zealand

Head of Biophotonics & Biomedical Imaging Department of Physics

University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand

igor@physics.otago.ac.nz

+64 3 479 7754

http://biophotonics.otago.ac.nz

Node 22

Latvia

Head of Biophotonics Laboratory, Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy Professor, Department of Physics

University of Latvia, Raina Blvd. 19, Riga, LV-1586, Latvia

janis.spigulis@lu.lv

+371 6722 8249

http://www.lanet.lv/~spigulis

Node 23

India

Professor, Dept. of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

Phone: +918022932595, Fax: +918023601552

Program Managers & Delegates

Director of Partnerships and New Program Development, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA

Program Manager, Biophotonics4Life Worldwide Consortium

Gabriela.Lee@cbst.ucdavis.edu

916-734-1775

Founder of www.BiophotonicsWorld.org

Chief Education Officer, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA

Marco.Molinaro@cbst.ucdavis.edu

916-734-8449

Lead Programmer, Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA

Andrew.Lague@cbst.ucdavis.edu

916-734-8384

Professor, Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

cristina@ifsc.usp.br

office: 55 16 33739810

Network Support Officer, Photonics4Life European Network of Excellence for Biophotonics

Institute of Photonic Technology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Thomas.Mayerhoefer@uni-jena.de

+49 3641 206040

Joint Research Center of Photonics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Sweden) and Zhejiang University (China), Hangzhou, P.R. China

qianjun@coer.zju.edu.cn

Coordinator of Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China

huashi@mail.hust.edu.cn

+86 27 8779 2033

College of Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea

jeehk@knu.ac.kr

+82-53-950-7221