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Sunday, December 23, 2012

1st International Biophotonics Meeting in Israel

December 9 - 11, 2012 · Tel Aviv Israel
Supported by SPIE, the 1st International Biophotonics meeting in Israel (BPI2012) will gather globally renowned scientists from around the world, Israeli scientists and clinicians, as well as industrialists and entrepreneurs. This group will present their work and discuss open issues in the field, while exposing the up-to-date research at the frontier to local students, researchers, and industrial research and development representatives. The meeting aims to strengthen connections and trigger bi-national and multi-national research collaborations.

Presentations will be given orally and in poster format. Social meetings, student-mentor events, and a tour in Israel are planned as well. The Biophotonics community will honor Prof. Abraham Katzir for his leadership and achievements and in the field of Lasers in Medicine and biology. A special issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics will be dedicated to papers presented in the meeting.

Keynote speaker will be Steven L. Jacques (Oregon Health & Science University, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering & Dermatology).  Conference invited speakers include Irving Bigio, Boston University; Daniel Palanker, Stanford University and Gabriel Idan, Given Imaging. 
Biophotonics is a major field in Israel: at the Israeli academy, in hospitals, and in industry. Leading biophotonics companies have been established and operate in Israel. In addition, there are a large number of Israeli start-up companies that develop cutting-edge biophotonics technologies. The entrepreneurial nature of the country stimulates translational research in this field.

Supported by SPIE, the 1st International Biophotonics meeting in Israel (BPI2012) will gather globally renowned scientists from around the world, Israeli scientists and clinicians, as well as industrialists and entrepreneurs. This group will present their work and discuss open issues in the field, while exposing the up-to-date research at the frontier to local students, researchers, and industrial research and development representatives. The meeting aims to strengthen connections and trigger bi-national and multi-national research collaborations.

Scientific committee:
Ibrahim Abdul-Halim (Ben-Gurion University, Be'er Sheba, Israel), Samuel Achilefu (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), Irving Bigio (Boston University, Boston, MA), Claude Boccara (Institut Langevin, Laboratoire d'Optique ESPCI-ParisTech, Paris, France), Brett Bouma (Harvard University, Boston, MA), Haim Danenberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel); Amir Gandjbakhche (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD), Gabi Iddan (Given Imaging, Yoqneam, Israel), Steven Jacques, (Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR), Duco Jansen (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN), Jana Kainerstorfer, (Tufts Univ. ), Jin Kang (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD), Xingde Li (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD), Jessica Ramella-Roman (Catholic University, Washington, DC), Yael Roichman (Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel), Eric Seibel (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), Adam Wax (Duke University, Durham, NC), Lihong Wang (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), Dvir Yelin (Technion, Haifa, Israel), Ze'ev Zalevsky (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel).

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