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Irene Georgakoudi
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Education
1999 Ph.D., University of Rochester, Rochester NY,
Biophysics
1996 M.Sc., University of Rochester, Rochester NY,
Biophysics
Research Interests
Irene Georgakoudi's research interests focus on the development and
application of spectroscopic imaging approaches that rely on endogenous
sources of optical contrast to characterize the functional and morphological
state of human tissues and its components. She is particularly interested
in applications that focus on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
as well as cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. The three main research
areas include:
Biography
Irene Georgakoudi has been working
on the use of lasers for therapeutic and diagnostic applications since her undergraduate
years. She started as a physicist at Dartmouth College and continued her graduate
studies in Biophysics at the University of Rochester. Her interests in spectroscopy
and spectroscopic imaging using endogenous sources of contrast were founded during
her postdoctoral years at the MIT Spectroscopy Lab. After working on the development
of fluorescence-based in vivo flow cytometry while an Instructor at the Wellman
Laboratories for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical
School, she moved to Tufts in 2004. She is the author of several patents on the
development and use of spectroscopy and imaging to characterize tissues or to detect
specific populations of cells and has published numerous peer reviewed manuscripts,
review articles and book chapters in these topics. She is the recipient of a Claflin
Distinguished Scholar, an NSF Career, and an American Cancer Society Research Scholar
award. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America
Teaching
EN 31- Exploring Laser Light
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BME 101 - Medical Optics and Lasers
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Honors and Awards
- Research Scholar Grant, American Cancer Society (2009-2013)
- Board of Directors, Optical Society of America (2008-2009)
- Attendee of the "U.S. Frontiers in Engineering Symposium" organized by
the National Academy of Engineering (2006)
- NSF Career Award: Non-invasive modalities for optical imaging of
cell-matrix interactions in engineered tissues (2006-2011)
- Inaugural Sturge Price awarded for "pioneering contributions to spectral
diagnosis of biological materials using optical spectroscopic methodology." (2005)
- Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Harvard Medical School (2004)
- National Research Service Award, U.S. National Institutes of Health
(1999-2002)
Professional Positions
2010 Program co-chair, Microscopy, Optical Society of America Meeting on
Biomedical Optics, Miami Beach, FL
2010 Program committee and session chair, Gordon Research Conference on
Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Plymouth, NH
2008-2009 Board of Directors, Optical Society of America (OSA);
Chair, Member and Education Services Council, OSA
2009 Program co-chair, European Conference in Biomedical Optics, Munich, Germany
2009 Session chair/organizer, Advances in Optics for Biotechnology,
Medicine and Surgery, Engineering Conferences International, Burlington, VT
2008 Program co-chair, Optical Society of America meeting on Biomedical Optics, Tampa, FL
2008 Program committee and session chair, SPIE Photonics West meeting, San Jose, CA
2007 Vice chair, Member and Education Services Council, OSA
2006 Program committee, Annual CLEO/QELS meeting, CA
2005 Session organizer and chair (New Technology/Methodology), Gordon
Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Plymouth, NH
Membership in Professional Societies
- Optical Society of America
- American Association for Cancer Research
- SPIE – International Society for Optical Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering Society
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