Highlights

11-27-2008, Congratulations to Hongtao Chen for receiving a Jonathon and Ruthanna Amy Travel Award from Department of Chemistry. 

8-28-2008, Congratulations to Han-Wei Wang for receiving a Ronald W. Dollens Graduate Scholarship from Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

8-20-2008, Congratulations to Shuhua Yue for receiving a Joe Bourland Travel award to the BMES meeting.

5-4-2008, Congratulations to Yunzhou Shi for receiving an Estus H. and Vashti L. Magoon Award for being an excellent TA in Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. 

5-2-2008, our PNAS paper on micelle study  "Release of Hydrophobic Molecules from Polymer Micelles into Cell Membranes Revealed by Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging" is reported by Purdue News Office.

2-17-2008, our nanorod-mediated photothermolysis work was highlighted in Laser Focus World: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/318550/12/none/none/News/MEDICAL-THERAPEUTICS:-Lasers-and-nanorods-combat-cancer

2-7-2008 Hongtao chen et al. "Fast release of lipophilic agents from circulating PEG-PDLLA micelles revealed by in vivo Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging", was selected as a front cover story in Langmuir.

12-21-2007 Hongtao Chen et al. "Cholesterol Level Regulates Endosome Mobility via Rab Proteins" has been chosen to appear on the February 15 cover of Biophysical Journal.

12-20-2007 Ling Tong received a pre-doctoral fellowship from American Heart Association. Congratulations to Ling!

12-11-2007 Haifeng Wang accepted an assistant professor position in National University of Singapore. Congratulations to Haifeng!

11-15-2007  T.B. Huff, Y. Shi, Y. Yan, H. Wang, J. X. Cheng, “Multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy and applications to central nervous system imaging”, accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (invited paper).

11-2-2007, Le et al. "Label-free molecular imaging of atherosclerotic lesions using multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy," published in Journal of Biomedical Optics 12, 054007 (2007), was selected for the October 15, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. Visit http://www.vjbio.org .

7-01-2007, Yan Fu et al's demyelination work is reported by National Science Foundation:      http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109661

7-01-2007, Eunah Kang et al's paper, "Paclitaxel distribution in poly(ethylene glycol) / poly(lactide-co-glycolic acid) blends and its release visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy Journal of Controlled Release", is reported by www.spectroscopyNOW.com

6-25-2007, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", focal point article, is accepted by Applied Spectroscopy.

5-11-2007, Yunzhou Shi received a Travel award from National Neurotrauma Society for her presentation in the 2007 National Neurotrauma Society meeting. Congratulations to Yunzhou! 

4-30-2007, Yan Fu, Haifeng Wang, Riyi Shi, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Noninvasive Molecular Imaging of Intact Myelin Sheath by Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy", is reported by American Laboratory and American Biotechnology Laboratory as a feature article.

3-30-2007, Thuc Le received an Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award from NIH. Congratulations to Thuc!

3-20-2007, Haifeng Wang, Yan Fu, Ji-Xin Cheng, "Experimental observation and theoretical analysis of Raman resonance-enhanced photodamage in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy," published in Journal of the Optical Society of America B 24, 544 (2007), has been selected to Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science http://www.vjultrafast.org and Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research http://www.vjbio.org.

3-1-2007, Our multimodal NLO image of myelin sheath and asltrogilal processes was chosen as the cover of the May issue of Biophysical Journal. Congratulations to Yan and Haifeng. See picture here.

2-1-2007, Our in vivo CARS image is selected as the cover of the Feb issue of Journal of Microscopy. See picture here.

7-24-2006.
Our article, "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging with a laser source delivered by a photonic crystal fiber," published in Optics Letters 31, 1417 (2006), has been selected for the July 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.

10-21-05.
Our paper "in vitro and in vivo two-photon luminescence imaging of single gold nanorods" is published in PNAS online with a front-page news report. see http://www.pnas.org/misc/highlights.shtml