Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Director and Chair

Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Helmholtz Zentrum München Chair of Biological Imaging, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.

Advanced Optoacoustic Imaging and its multimodal approaches: currents and trends.

Prof. Aydogan Ozcan

Director

Director, Bio&Nano-Photonics Laboratory, Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Diffusion model-based super-resolved virtual staining of label-free tissue.

Dra. Dana Cialla-May

Head of working group

Plasmon-enhanced Bioanalytics group, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT), Jena, Germany.

Innovative optical effects to significantly enhance signal in Raman spectroscopy for biological and biomedical applications: present and future

Prof. Kristen M. Kelly

Chair

Department of Dermatology and Prof. of Dermatology and Surgery, UCI, Newport Beach, California, USA.

Photodynamic Therapy for Cutaneous Diseases: currents and trends.

Prof. Guillermo Tearney

Director

The Tearney Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.

Last advances on Micro OCT for imaging cells and sub-cellular structures in the coronary wall

Prof. Mikael Käll

Head

Nano and Biophysics group, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothemburg, Sweden.

Optical Antennas and Metasurfaces for life sciences and medicine applications: principles, currents and trends

Prof. Susana Marcos

Director

David R. Williams Center for Visual Science, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, NY, USA.

Latest advances on Light-based technologies to improve vision

Prof. Laura Lechuga

Director

Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group, Catalan Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain.

Biophotonic advanced Sensors: currents and trends

Prof. Andrea Cusano

Head

Optoelectronic and Photonic Group, Università degli Studi del Sannio, (UniSannio) Benevento, Italy.

Lab-on-Fiber advanced devices for Point of Care medical applications

Prof. Carlos Molpeceres

Director

Laser Institute, Deputy Vicerrector for Innovation, UPM, Madrid, Spain.

Manufacturing of key tools for medicine using laser-based processing technologies

Prof. Naomi Halas

Director

Laboratory for Nanoengineering, Nanophotonics, RICE University, USA.

Gold nanoshell-localized photothermal ablation of tumors: lessons learned on the prostate cancer case

Prof. Andy Yun

Head

Harvard Medical School and faculty member at MIT, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Boston, MA, USA.

Deep-tissue efficient PDT of cancer activated by Bioluminescence: Science-fiction or reality

Prof. Kishan Dolakia

Director

Centre of Light for Life, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Optical Trapping and manipulation of biological species useful in medicine: currents and trends.

Prof. Li-Huei Tsai

Director

The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Boston, USA.

Could we Treat Alzheimer with Light and Sound?

Prof. Paul Chazot

Director

Wolfson Research Institute Special Interest Group, Department of Biosciences, Durham University, United Kingdom.

Transcranial non-invasive infrared Photobiomodulation Therapy fighting Alzheimer

Prof. Mariana G. Figueiro

Director

Light and Health Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai NY, USA.

Rhythmic Light Therapy to Entrain Gamma Oscillations and the Circadian System in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease 

Prof. José Miguel López Higuera

Emeritus Professor AH, ISLIST director

Former Head of Photonic Engineering Group of UC, CIBER-BBN and IDIVAL, Spain.

Light Technologies for early detection and executive functions monitoring on Alzheimer's Disease patients