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A Banner Year for Darren Roblyer’s Lab, with 3 NIH Awards
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Center Statistics
Publications per Year
200
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223 articles in AY 2025
Active Faculty Members
52
Ranging across the CoE, CAS, MED School, and beyond.
BIC Tenants
10
Funded R&D Projects in FY25
123
News & Media
Photonics Center Community Featured Across SPIE’s Photonics West 2026 Conference
Last week, SPIE held it's annual "Photonics West" conference, bringing together researchers and experts across the varying fields of optics and photonics research. With over a hundred conferences, plenary events, and presentations, several Boston University Photonics and Neurophotonics Center faculty––and graduate students––were not only in attendance, but led several key talks. Plenary Events: Irving Bigio […]
Irving Bigio: The 2026 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
For pioneering elastic scattering spectroscopy and translating it into a clinically impactful diagnostic tool, and for mentoring a generation of leaders in translational biomedical optics
Siddharth Ramachandran: The 2026 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization
For seminal contributions in the area of spatially and vectorially structured light in optical fibers.
Asking the BIG Questions in Kirit Karkare’s Cosmology Lab
Karkare's group works with laboratories across the country on macro telescopes in the South Pole to create a 3D map of the universe. by Danny Giancioppo, Photos by Kelly Peña “How did the universe begin? Why are we here? To Assistant Professor Kirit Karkare (PHYS), this is the most fundamental scientific question one can ask. […]
Xin Zhang, Irving Bigio, and More Featured in “Best of The Brink 2025” Inventions List
From soft robots that could make cancer surgery safer to an algorithm that boosts hearing aid performance, how BU research made a difference this year
Building Mini-Brains, Advancing Big Ideas: How Kate Herrema Uses Organoids to Model Neurodevelopment
Whether in her home state of Michigan, during her high school years in Virginia, or in the city of Boston, Kate Herrema has always had an aptitude for science and math.
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng Elected NAI Fellow
"The Uses of Invention"
Upcoming Events
Neurophotonics Center's 9th Annual Symposium: New Developments in Imaging Naturalistic, Social, and Freely Moving Behaviors
The Photonics Center's 27th Annual Symposium: "Photonics in Space"
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2025 Annual Report
“In light of evolving strategies both University-wide and across federal institutions, it is heartening to share that Photonics Center Faculty were able to secure $36.3MM this year in new grant awards.” – Dr. Thomas Bifano, Center Director
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