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Amy Lin wins FLIR prize for best poster presentation
Feb
17
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Amy Lin wins FLIR prize for best poster presentation

  • Friday 17 February 2017
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25
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New inversion procedure for cross-sectional optoacoustic tomography

  • Monday 25 April 2016
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Apr
17
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Publication - Estimating Light Fluence in tissues with photoswitchable probes, temporal unmixing and multispectral imaging.

  • Sunday 17 April 2016
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Mar
17
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Visualising the Brain like never before

  • Thursday 17 March 2016
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17
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ERC consilidation grant

  • Wednesday 17 February 2016
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17
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Broadband Optoacoustics of the Murine Skull

  • Wednesday 17 February 2016
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May 2025 Congratulations to Lukas Glandorf for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Quantitative Mapping of Functional Cerebrovascular Network Adaptations in Stroke Using Optical Coherence Microscopy !

April 2025 Congratulations to Daniil Nozdriukhin for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Methods and Materials for Super-Resolution Optoacoustic and Laser Ultrasound Tomography !

March 2025 We host a lecture by Prof. Daniel Palanker from Stanford University

March 2025 Irmak Gezginer is the Young Investigator Award finalist at the European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM’25) in Bilbao

January 2025 Quanyu Zhou is honoured by the ETH Medal for her doctoral thesis

January 2025 Neurotechnology Plenary talk at the SPIE Photonics West conference

January 2025 On the cover of the Stroke journal - our work on transcranial cortex-wide imaging of murine ischemic perfusion

December 2024 Delivering medicines with microscopic flowers - ETH News

December 2024 Our paper on acoustically manipulatable multifunctional agents is featured on the frontispiece of Advanced Materials

November 2024 Keynote talk at the Nature conference on Disruptive Photonics Technologies in Guangzhou, China

October 2024 Plenary talk at the 18th International conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences in Muğla, Turkey

September 2024 Keynote talk at the Vis à vis in the Brain: The Neuron-Glia Interface conference in Freiburg, Germany

September 2024 Institute for Biomedical Engineering celebrates 50+ years since its foundation

September 2024 We organize a session on Multimodal Brain Imaging at the annual Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) Symposium

July 2024 Daniel Razansky is awarded the IPPA James Smith Prize

July 2024 Plenary talk at the 22nd International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena in Coimbra, Portugal

June 2024 On the cover of Chemical Society Reviews - Multimodal optoacoustic imaging: methods and contrast materials

June 2024 Paper on noninvasive tracking of embryonic cardiac dynamics and development is on the cover of Advanced Science

June 2024 Prof. Audrey Bowden from Vanderbilt University joins our group as a Senior Fellow of Collegium Helveticum

May 2024 Big congrats to Eva Remlova for winning the ETH Medal for her Master thesis

May 2024 Paper on in vivo anatomical and functional assessment of human tendons is on the Advanced Science cover

April 2024 Applied Research Partnership Grant to support our collaboration with Prof. Amy Lin from the National Tsing Hua University

April 2024 Keynote talk at the 9th International Workshop on Technologies for Optogenetics and Neurophotonics in Prague, Czech Republic

March 2024 Héctor Estrada wins the prestigious Spark Award that funds novel and unconventional ideas

February 2024 We are part of SWEEPICS, a EU Horizon consortium developing swept-source lasers for non-invasive diagnostics

December 2023 Congratulations to Weiye Li for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Quantitative Assessment of Microvascular Dynamics with Spectroscopic Large-Scale Optoacoustic Microscopy !

December 2023 Congratulations to Lu Ding for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Efficient Model-based Reconstruction for Three-Dimensional Optoacoustic Tomography !

December 2023 Congratulations to Quanyu Zhou for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Breaking Through Imaging Resolution and Depth Barriers with Diffuse Optical Localization Methods !

November 2023 BE-LIGHT - new European MSCA Doctoral Network

November 2023 Congratulations to Alain Pulfer for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Deep Learning-Based Cellular Activity Recognition in Live-Cell Imaging !

November 2023 Overview lecture at the Biomedical Imaging School, Cargèse, France

October 2023 Nature Methods article about our research and the future of ultrasound and optoacoustic brain imaging

September 2023 Keynote talk at Science: Polish Perspective Meetup Zurich

March 2023 Towards a cure for chronic wounds - cooperation with TOPADUR Pharma AG and Prof. Sabine Werner from D-BIOL

March 2023 Open webinar at the University of California Irvine Beckman Laser Institute (YouTube)

March 2023 17th EXCITE Zurich Summer School on Biomedical Imaging will take place between 4 -15 September, 2023

February 2023 Keynote talk at the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research Scientific Symposium in Brisbane, Australia

February 2023 PHRT funded project on optoacoustic-guided focused ultrasound for neurosurgery

January 2023 Congratulations to Ali Özbek for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Exploring Multi-Dimensional Sparsity for Ultrafast Volumetric Optoacoustic Tomography !

January 2023 We host a lecture by Prof. Rainer Leitgeb from Medical University of Vienna

January 2023 Congratulations to Berkan Lafci for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Hybrid Optoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging Systems !

December 2022 Jaber Malekzadeh-Najafabadi wins the prestigious ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship

November 2022 Congratulations to Neda Davoudi for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Biomedical Data Analysis from Bidirectional Optical-Acoustic Interface !

November 2022 Congratulations to Francisco Oyaga for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Real-time Optoacoustic Monitoring of Thermal Ablation and Laser Surgery

October 2022 Keynote talk at the Symposium Cum Hands-on Workshop on Medical Imaging in IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India

October 2022 We host SONANO focus project together with Herrmann lab

September 2022 Keynote talk at the COMULIS conference in Nikosia, Cyprus

August 2022 Paper on multimodal noninvasive functional neurophotonic imaging is featured on the frontispiece of Advanced Science

August 2022 Congratulations to Shruti Sundar for winning the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

July 2022 Our new optical molecular imaging toolset for studying Alzheimer’s disease is published by Nature Biomedical Engineering

June 2022 Interview on the future of microrobotics on the SRF channel

June 2022 NIH awards $2.5M R01 grant to develop image-guided neuromodulation, jointly with New York University and University of Tokyo

May 2022 Science Advances paper on tracking tiny microrobots is featured by ETH news

April 2022 Plenary talk at the Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

April 2022 Congratulations to Çağla Özsoy for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Optoacoustic Methods for Ultrafast Cardiac Imaging and Treatment Monitoring !

April 2022 Kudos to Jim Zhao for winning the annual IPT institute ping-pong tournament!

March 2022 Weiye Li is the Young Investigator Award finalist at the European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM’22) in Thessaloniki

January 2022 Introduction to the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich (YouTube)

December 2021 Prof Razansky is elected IEEE Fellow, the Class of 2022

December 2021 Keynote talk at the Neurotech 2021 symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

November 2021 New ZNZ Master's Degree Program in Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences

November 2021 Paper on ultrafast imaging of cardiac mechanical waves with sparse optoacoustic sensing (SOS) is published in PNAS

November 2021 Apply for the ETH AI Center PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships

November 2021 Keynote talk at the SPIE Advanced Biophotonics Conference (ABC 2021), Busan, Korea

October 2021 Congratulations to Urs Hofmann for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Large-Scale Multi-Wavelength Optoacoustic and Ultrasound Mesoscopy for Biomedical Applications !

October 2021 Keynote talk at the PhotonicsMedia Virtual Biophotonics Conference

September 2021 Annual application round is open for the Doctoral Fellowships of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS)

August 2021 Congratulations to Baturay Özgürün for winning the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

July 2021 Healing wounds like never seen before, also on the Advanced Science cover

July 2021 Congratulations to Yu-Hang (Roy) Liu for winning the UZH Postdoc Grant

June 2021 Our Photoacoustics journal receives a new Impact Factor of 8.5

May 2021 A deep dive into the brain - ETH News

March 2021 The flash‐scanning volumetric optoacoustic tomography (fSVOT) method is on the cover of Laser & Photonics Reviews

February 2021 Congratulations to Avihai Ron for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Whole Body Optoacoustic Tomography for High Resolution Functional and Molecular Imaging in Mice !

January 2021 Congratulations to Ben McLarney for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Functional Optoacoustic Neuro-Tomography for Large Scale Electrophysiology in Optically Scattering Tissues !

December 2020 Congratulations to Ivana Ivankovic for winning the EXCITE PhD Excellence Award 2020 !

November 2020 SNSF funds our new project to implement world’s first hybrid MRI-MSOT scanner

November 2020 Congratulations to Lin Yang for defending his thesis entitled Deciphering Pulmonary Delivery and Biokinetics of Nanoparticles in Murine Lungs using Novel Imaging Techniques

October 2020 Interview with Daniel Razansky

September 2020 Associaltion to the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS)

September 2020 We team up with the University Hospital Zurich under SNSF-funded clinical MSOT imaging project

August 2020 New funded project with the Swiss Data Science Center aims at boosting image quality with deep learning

April 2020 Congratulations to Ivana Ivankovic for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Cardiovascular Optoacoustic Tomography for Real-Time Imaging of Rodent Models and Handheld Investigations !

April 2020 Two our papers on novel microscopy methods are top downloaded in 2019

March 2020 Plenary talk at the XVI Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics

February 2020 Inagural lecture of Prof. Razansky

February 2020 Our new large-field multifocal illumination microscopy method is highlighted on the cover of Laser & Photonics Reviews

February 2020 Çağla Özsoy wins best paper award at SPIE Photonics West conference in San Francisco

January 2020 Our group joins the SKINTEGRITY consortium to develop new imaging techniques for efficient diagnosis and therapy of skin diseases and wounds

December 2019 We host a lecture by Prof. Robert Campbell from University of Tokyo and University of Alberta

November 2019 Congratulations to Elena Merčep for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Hybrid Optoacoustic Tomography, Pulse-Echo and Transmission Ultrasonography !

October 2019 Plenary Lecture at SPIE Photonics Asia Symposium, Hangzhou, China

October 2019 Luis Dean-Ben is awarded a research grant from the Helmut Horten Foundation

October 2019 We host a lecture by Prof. Thomas Knopfel from Imperial College London

September 2019 Our Nature Machine Intelligence paper is featured by ETH news

September 2019 Lab Hack Days workshop is organized by the members of our group at the Irchel campus

September 2019 This year's EXCITE symposium brings together prominent researchers in the optoacoustic imaging field, to signify establishment of our group and imaging center in Zurich

August 2019 Justine Robin wins the prestigious ETH Fellowship

July 2019 Plenary Lecture at the 20th International Conference on Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena (ICPPP-20) in Moscow

July 2019 Study on imaging of cyclic hypoxia is featured on the cover of Cancer Research and the issue highlights

June 2019 Plenary talk at the 14th School on Acousto-Optics and Applications in Toruń, Poland

June 2019 The Photoacoustics journal we established jointly with Elsevier receives its first Impact Factor of 5.25, among the best in bio-photonics and -engineering

May 2019 The human carotid imaging study is featured by Diagnostic Imaging Europe

April 2019 Optoacoustic imaging of neural activity highlighted by Nature Methods

April 2019 Our Nature Biomedical Engineering paper on whole brain optoacoustic calcium imaging is featured on the cover

March 2019 Best poster award to Avihai Ron at the European Molecular Imaging Meeting in Glasgow, UK

February 2019 Our group joins the Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ) to work on novel large-scale neural recording technologies

February 2019 Faster, wider, deeper: our imaging advances are in focus at the Hot Topics Plenary session of SPIE Photonics West

February 2019 Daniel Razansky has been elected Fellow of the SPIE - the International Society for Optics and Photonics

January 2019 Light: Science & Applications highlights on its cover our paper on transmission-reflection optoacoustic ultrasound (TROPUS) computed tomography

January 2019 Nature Methods paper on the first near-infrared genetically-encoded calcium indicator, our collaboration with University of Alberta and MIT

December 2018 Super-vision of the brain - ZNZ News

October 2018 NIH awards a new $3M U01 grant to develop image-guided neuromodulation technology jointly with New York University

October 2018 Keynote talk at the “Tracking Life” Symposium of the Young Academy of Europe, Aachen, Germany

October 2018 Talk at the School of Functional Microscopy in Biology (MiFoBio) in Seignosse, France

September 2018 Our hybrid focus optoacoustic microscopy (HFOAM) technology is featured on the JBIO cover and in the Advanced Science News

August 2018 Watch a comprehensive overview lecture on optoacoustics at the BIGSS summer school in Galway, Ireland

July 2018 Daniel Razansky is appointed Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the University and ETH Zurich

July 2018 Keynote talk at the Light Conference 2018, Changchun, China

July 2018 Keynote talk at the 4th International Conference on Current Trends in Cancer Theranostics, Trakai, Lithuania

June 2018 Plenary talk at the 3rd International Conference on Ultrasonic-Based Applications, Lisbon, Portugal

May 2018 Congratulations to Subhamoy Mandal for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Visual Quality Enhancement in Optoacoustic Tomography !

October 2017 Prof. Razansky is elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

October 2017 Congratulations to Jake Turner for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Real-Time Hybrid Focus Optoacoustic Microscopy for Multi-scale Imaging in Scattering Tissues !

September 2017 We team up with Max Planck to develop acivity sensors for optoacoustic imaging under new NIH funding

September 2017 Helmholtz-RSF to fund our broadband ultrasound technology for optoacoustic neuroimaging

July 2017 Congratulations to Christian Lutzweiler for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Towards Clinical Finger Imaging Using Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography: Reconstruction Approaches and Initial Experimental Studies !

July 2017 Congratulations to Amy Lin for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Scalable Imaging of Scattering Organisms with Hybrid Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy and Optoacoustic Tomography !

June 2017 Congratulations to Thomas Fehm for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Volumetric Optoacoustic and Ultrasound Tomography for Imaging of Multi-Scale Dynamics !

April 2017 New England Journal of Medicine article on the clinical use of our MSOT technology for assessment of Crohn’s disease

March 2017 Dr. Zhenyue Chen is awarded the prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 2017 Johannes Rebling wins best poster award at SPIE Medical Imaging

January 2017 Nature Methods highlights our new SVOT method

December 2016 3Sat TV channel features our neuroimaging research 

December 2016 Paper on functional optoacoustic neuro-tomography is published by LSA

October 2016 Amy Lin wins FLIR prize for the best paper at the International School on Photoacoustic & Photothermal Phenomena

September 2016 Plenary talk at the International Saratov Fall Meeting on Biophotonics SFM’16, Saratov, Russia

June 14, 2016 We host a lecture by Prof. Igor Efimov, Chair of the Dept of Bioengineeing at the George Washington University

June 2016 Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Thomas Fehm at the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

April 2016 Congratulations to Erwin Bay for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Real-time Optoacoustic Monitoring of Ablation Treatments in Medicine !

March 2016 We partner under the new HFSP grant to discern neuroanatomical origins of fat

May 2016 TUM Institute for Advanced Study names Prof. Razansky as its Honorary Fellow

February 2016 Elsevier applies for an official Impact Factor with Thomson Reuters for the Photoacoustics (PACS) journal

January 2016 Prof. Razansky is awarded his third ERC grant

December 2015 German Research Foundation (DFG) to fund our research on real-time monitoring of thermal therapies

December 2015 Science publishes a clinical study on metastatic lymph node detection with our MSOT technology

October 2015 US National Institutes of Health funds our neuroimaging research

September 2015 Congratulations to Moritz Kneipp for defending his doctoral dissertation entitled Rapid Functional Optoacoustic Imaging of Brain Activity in Murine and Zebrafish Models !

June 2015 Dr. Dean-Ben is appointed to the Editorial Board of the Nature's Scientific Reports journal

June 24, 2015 We host a lecture by Prof. Chulhong Kim from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea

March 2015 Dr. Steven Ford gets the Best Poster Award at the 10th EMIM conference

February 2015 Drs. Luís Deán-Ben and Steven Ford won the Best Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West

July 24, 2014 We host a lecture by Dr. Ronald Sroka, Head of the Laser Research Lab at the Ludwig-Maximillian University

April 2014 Prof. Razansky is appointed as a Topical Editor of the Nature LSA journal

April 2014 German Innovation Prize is awarded to our MSOT technology

April 9, 2014 We host a lecture by Prof. Alexander Oraevsky, President of Tomowave Technologies, one of the early pioneers of optoacoustics

February 2014 Watch Prof. Razansky's talk at the Inverse Problems and Imaging Workshop

January 2014 Paper on five-dimensional optoacoustic imaging is published by LSA

December 2013 Thomas Fehm wins doctoral scholarship from Deutsche Telekom Stiftung

December 2013 Dr. Sven Gottschalk receives intramural funding to study β-cell targeted imaging agents

September 30, 2013 We host a lecture by Dr. Vyacheslav Kalchenko, Head of the In vivo Imaging Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

July 2013 Plenary talk at the IV International Symposium on Topical Problems of Biophotonics (TPB)

December 2012 Photoacoustics (PACS) journal is established and will be published by Elsevier

November 2012 Our group will participate in the FP7 initial training network on optical imaging and laser techniques for biomedical applications

May 2012 German-Israeli Foundation funds our research on functional microscopy of brain activation

April 2012 Congratulations to Rui Ma for defending her doctoral dissertation entitled Development of Multispectral Optoacoustic Imaging for High Resolution Small Animal Visualization !

April 2012 Prof. Razansky delivers a 'Stanford Talk' at the Molecular Imaging Program in Stanford University

November 2011 Prof. Razansky is selected by the Capital magazine as one of its top 40 under 40 talents in science

October 2011 Watch a clip about our newly established lab (YouTube)

July 2011 Paper on real-time multispectral optoacoustic tomography is published by Nature Protocols

April 2010 Our novel imaging technology wins the BioVaria Spin-Off Award

July 2010 Razansky is awarded the ERC Starting Grant

June 2009 Nature Photonics publishes our paper on Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography

December 2008 German Research Foundation (DFG) to fund our research on hybrid fluorescence optoacoustic molecular tomography

 

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