The European Research Council (ERC) has granted one of its most prestigious scientific awards, an Advanced Grant, to Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos, Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) at Helmholtz Zentrum München. The grant amounts to a total of EUR 2.49 million over five years. Prof. Ntziachristos pioneered the field of optoacoustic tomography, a non-invasive imaging technique and his research focusses on the continuous improvement of the modality and its clinical translation.

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Professor Daniel Razansky from the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) together with international collaborators from Portugal and USA have been awarded a grant of over one million US dollars over the next three years. The funding comes from the Human Frontier Science Program. 

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Nature Communications published a new article by Stratis Tzoumas and co-authors. They describe a new method that models the light fluence in the spectral domain and allows for addressing spectral corruption effects and enhances the accuracy of MSOT in deep-tissue blood oxygenation imaging. The new method, termed eigenspectra MSOT has the potential to serve as a valuable tool for studying tissue pathophysiology and cancer hypoxia.

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Prof. Gil Westmeyer is the third IBMIer to get the ERC-starting grant, this shows the distinguished level of reserach and researchers at the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (more).

Study on using drugs as optical molecular reporters has been recently published in Science Translational Medicince, this presents great promise for enhancing diagnostics and theranostics and outlines a promising approach for overcoming bottlenecks and advancing photonics clinical imaging.

See Scheuer et. al. Sci. Trans. Med. 4(134), 134ps11 (2012), doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.3003572