Research Program and Theme
- Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science
- Theme: Cancer Imaging
Research Focus
Stephen Boppart is an Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Medicine, and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. His Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory focuses on developing novel optical technologies and translating these for cancer imaging. Professor Boppart received his Ph.D. in Medical and Electrical Engineering from MIT, his MD from Harvard Medical School, and his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Illinois. He has published over 350 invited and contributed publications and has over 45 patents related to optical biomedical imaging technology. He strongly advocates integrating engineering and medicine to advance human health and our healthcare systems. Learn more about Stephen Boppart’s lab.
Other Campus Affiliations
- W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
- Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
- Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
- Director, GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology