Mary-Ann Mycek, PhD
Professor of biomedical engineering, College of Engineering and Medical School, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, Feb. 6
Time: 9–9:50 a.m.
Location: SCOB 228
Faculty host: Heather Clark
Abstract
Professor Mary-Ann Mycek’s research program in biomedical photonics involves developing and applying methods of optical science and engineering to probe and quantify the living systems found in biology and medicine. This presentation will describe a multidisciplinary, translational research project employing clinical optical diagnostic technologies and computational modeling of light propagation in human tissues for improved detection of pancreatic disease.
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Mary-Ann Mycek is a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, as well as a member of the Applied Physics Graduate Program and the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care. She received her PhD in Physics from U.C. Berkeley, where she specialized in condensed matter physics and ultrafast optical spectroscopy, before pursuing postdoctoral training in laser medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She was an assistant professor of physics & astronomy at Dartmouth College before joining the University of Michigan. Her translational research program in biomedical photonics involves using light for non- and minimally invasive tissue diagnostics.
