The United States Food and Drug Administration has provided funding for us to use our BCARS microscope to help them look for evidence of aberrant immune response to Covid-19 in tissues taken from patients with severe disease.
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Wei-Wen Chen was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in aging research from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research. This is a one year fellowship beginning October 1, 2020. Wei-Wen will spend three months of that time in Kaveh Ashrafi‘s lab at UCSD in San Francisco, California.
Congratulations Wei-Wen!
The Cicerone Group received a Phase 1 Business Development Award from the Georgia Research Alliance to develop compact coherent Raman instrumentation based on intellectual property generated in our lab. This 9-month award will prepare us to launch an independent business that will create jobs in Georgia.
Doctor Cicerone presented two tutorial lectures at the International School on Nonlinear Vibrational Spectro-microscopy (ICONS) on July 31. The event was originally scheduled to be held in Rome, Italy but was delivered online via Zoom.
Our work, entitled “Spectroscopic coherent Raman imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans reveals lipid particle diversity” was published in Nature Chemical Biology.
Wei-Wen Chen was awarded a $10,000 Collaborative Research Travel Grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for his project entitled: Interrogation of the Mechanistic Links between Fat Metabolism and Aging by Broadband Raman Spectral Imaging. Wei-Wen plans to use the award to support a three-month visit to Kaveh Ashrafi’s lab at UCSF to learn genetic modification techniques for C. elegans. Professor Ashrafi’s lab uses C. elegans in leading edge of aging and lipid meetabolism.
The Cicerone group has been awarded a 3-year grant by the National Cancer Institute to use broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering to develop a label-free microscopy that maps metabolic state of tissues on a cell-by-cell basis. The metabolic information obtained will be used to help physicians diagnose and stratify cancer in solid tumors such as prostate and breast cancer. The grant number is 1 R21 CA240214-01A1.
Dr. Cicerone gave an invited lecture on November 26, 2019 at the Biomedical Raman Imaging Conference held in Osaka, Japan.
Dr. Cicerone presented the Modern Optics and Spectroscopy Seminar at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts on November 19, 2019. The Seminars on Modern Optics are a series of seminars sponsored by the MIT Laser Biomedical Research Center, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Department of Chemistry, and the School of Science.
Dr. Cicerone gave an invited lecture at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Savannah, Georgia on October 22, 2019.
