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  1. 2013: Lihong Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study oxygen consumption rates of individual cells using photoacoustic microscopy, a novel imaging technology he developed that uses light and sound to measure change.

    https://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25138.aspx

     

  2. 2012: Lihong Wang, PhD, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award to explore novel imaging techniques using light that promise significant improvements in biomedical imaging and light therapy.

    One of only 11 recipients of the highly competitive award, Wang was selected from among 600 applicants. The award supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research, according to the NIH.

    The award will provide Wang with a total budget of $3.8 million over five years.

    http://www.nih.gov/news/health/sep2012/od-13.htm

    http://www.siteman.wustl.edu/ContentPage.aspx?id=6354

    http://news.wustl.edu/cc/RecordArchive/2012/Record%209-17-2012.html
     

  3. 2012: Dr. Lihong Wang will be giving the following plenary lectures:

    · SPIE Photonics Europe, 16 - 19 April 2012, The Square Conference Ctr., Brussels, Belgium:
     http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=secategorydetail&catid=298&event_id=959117&export_id=x12532&ID=x12297&redir=x12297.xml

    ·     Biomedical Optics (BIOMED), 28 April - 2 May 2012, Miami, Florida, United States:
    http://www.osa.org/Meetings/topical_meetings/BIOMED/Invited_Speakers.aspx

     · ISBI 2012, 2 - 5 May, Barcelona, Spain:
    http://www.biomedicalimaging.org/index.php/programme/plenarylectures

     

  4. 2011: Our recent paper is about to be published on-line at Angewandte Chemie as a "Hot Paper":

    [Grigory S. Filonov, Arie Krumholz], Jun Xia, Junjie Yao, Lihong V. Wang*, Vladislav V. Verkhusha*, "Deep-tissue photoacoustic tomography of a genetically encoded near-infrared fluorescent probe," Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Coming soon.

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1521-3773/homepage/2002_hotpaper.html

     

  5. 2011: Junjie Yao's recent paper, "Label-free oxygen-metabolic photoacoustic microscopy in vivo,"  is highlighted in SPIE Professional Magazine:

    http://spie.org/x57337.xml

     

  6. 2011: Dr. Lihong Wang was awarded the C. E. K. Mees Medal for “seminal contributions to photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics community.” Announced at the OSA Congress on Optics in the Life Sciences, Monterey, CA on April 4, 2011.
    http://www.osa.org/awards_and_grants/awards/award_description/meesmedal/default.aspx


     

  7. 2011: The following paper has been identified as a "hot article" for Journal of Materials Chemistry and highlighted on their blog (http://blogs.rsc.org/jm/):  

    Chulhong Kim, Hyon-Min Song, Xin Cai, Junjie Yao, Alexander Wei and Lihong V. Wang, “In vivo photoacoustic mapping of lymphatic systems with plasmon-resonant nanostars,” Journal of Materials Chemistry, DOI:10.1039/C0JM04194G (Feb. 2011).

     

  8. 2010: Best Poster Award to Song Hu, Gordon Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology, Plymouth, NH. Song Hu, Konstantin Maslov, Jeffrey M. Arbeit, Jin-Moo Lee, Lihong V. Wang, “Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy for Biomedical Applications.”  

    http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=lasersmed.

     

  9. 2010: The following paper is highlighted in Science to Practice by Radiology:  
    http://radiology.rsna.org/content/256/1/1.full

    Todd N. Erpelding, Chulhong Kim, Manojit Pramanik, Ladislav Jankovic, Konstantin Maslov, Zijian Guo, Julie A. Margenthaler, Michael D. Pashley, and Lihong V. Wang, “Sentinel Lymph Nodes in the Rat: Noninvasive Photoacoustic and US Imaging with a Clinical US System,” Radiology 2010;256(1)  102–110 (July 2010).

     

  10. 2010: A review paper by C. Kim, C. Favazza, and L. V. Wang has been featured on the cover of Chemical Reviews:

    C. Kim, C. Favazza and L. V. Wang, “In Vivo Photoacoustic Tomography of Chemicals: High-Resolution Functional and Molecular Optical Imaging at New Depths,”  Chemical Reviews, Vol. 110(5), pp. 2756-2782 (May 2010).

    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cr900266s


     

  11. 2010: Lihong Wang and Hsin-I Wu receive Goodman Book Writing Award (List of winners) from SPIE and OSA.

    BELLINGHAM, Washington, and WASHINGTON, D.C., USA -- Lihong V. Wang and Hsin-I Wu are recipients of the 2010 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for their book Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, the Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE have announced. More>>
     

  12. 2010: From the New Editor-in-Chief
    Lihong V. Wang
    J. Biomed. Opt. Vol. 15, 010101 (Feb. 18, 2010) 

    Download the PDF (56 kB).
     

  13. 2010: Highlights of 2009 by the journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology
    (see http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.highlights2009/0031-9155).
    M. Pramanik, K. H. Song, M. Swierczewska, D. Green, B. Sitharaman, and L. V. Wang, “In vivo carbon nanotube-enhanced non-invasive photoacoustic mapping of the sentinel lymph node,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 54, 3291–3301 (May 2009).
     

  14. 2010: Best Paper Award to Konstantin Maslov, Photons Plus Ultrasound Conference, Photonics West, SPIE, San Francisco, California. Konstantin Maslov, Geng Ku, and Lihong V. Wang, “Photoacoustic microscopy with submicron resolution,” Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7564, 75640W (2010); doi:10.1117/12.841919. [PDF]
     

  15. 2009: Best Poster Award to Song Hu, Photons Plus Ultrasound Conference, Photonics West, SPIE. Song Hu, Konstantin Maslov, Lihong V. Wang, “Monitoring the healing process of laser-induced microvascular lesions using optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy,” Proc. SPIE 7177, 71772I (2009). DOI: 10.1117/12.809327. [PDF]


  16. 13 May 2009: SPIE announced the appointment of Lihong V. Wang of Washington University in St. Louis as editor of the Journal of Biomedical Optics (effective January 1, 2010). More>>


  17. The following book was recently published:

    L.V. Wang, Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy (CRC, 2009)

    Photoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy

    Purchase from Amazon.com



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