Prof. Irene Georgakoudi
Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA

Talk Title: High resolution tissue metabolism assessments using endogenous two-photon excited fluorescence

Irene Georgakoudi is a Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and co-director of the Translational Engineering in Cancer research program at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. Previously, she was Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University.

She received her BA in Physics from Dartmouth College, her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Rochester and performed postdoctoral work at the MIT GR Harrison Spectroscopy Lab and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her lab is interested in the development of new and improved methods to assess different aspects of normal and diseased development of human tissues that rely on light interactions with endogenous chromophores and are non-destructive. She is particularly interested in the development of quantitative methods to assess cell metabolism and matrix organization features in tissues non-invasively, from the molecular to the organism scale. Main application areas of research include cancer diagnostics, adipose tissue function, osteoarthritis, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. Her efforts include fundamental, pre-clinical, and clinical studies.

She has published over 130 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters in this area, and has served as the program chair, co-chair or session chair of over 30 international conferences in Biomedical Optics. She is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of Optica and of SPIE.