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.
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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.
UPDATE: On June 16, 2020 we filed an International Patent Application No.: PCT/US2020/037871
On June 17, 2019 we filed a provisional patent, Application No. 62/862,598, for a “Low Aberration Optical Delay Scanner.” This delay scanner will allow us to rapidly and robustly obtain fingerprint coherent Raman spectra at 3.5 wavenumber resolution! The figure is an example spectrum (in black) compared to a spectrum obtained on the same material (carbon disulfide) with a scanner design commonly used for coherent Raman. We get a 10-fold increase in signal-to-noise ratio, and 10-fold better spectral resolution.
Dr. Cicerone gave the plenary lecture at the IBS Conference on Advanced Optical Imaging in Seoul, South Korea on June 19, 2019.
Dr. Cicerone gave an invited lecture at the Gordon Conference for Free Clinical Form & Formulation for Drug Discovery in Waterville, New Hampshire on June 10, 2019.
Dr. Cicerone gave an invited lecture at the Neutron Workshop on Biological and Soft Matter in Shanghai, China on May 13, 2019. He spoke on fundamental relaxation processes in non-crystaline condensed matter.
The microscope body has arrived! Now comes the task of coupling it to the BCARS signal generation pulses.
