• August 2024, Sahar and Rasel presented their research at the poster session during Research Day.

• August 2024: Diana participated in the poster presentation on her Summer Research!

 

• July 2024: Sahar and Rasel passed the Ph.D. QE! Celebrated with our Happy Hour!
• April 2024: Christopher has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, also highlighted in the recent SB News below. This award recognizes a select number of graduating seniors who have demonstrated and been recognized for the integration of SUNY excellence with many aspects of their lives which must include three of the following areas: academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service, and/or creative and performing arts.Chris-Award

 

• April 2024: Dr. Bruce Tromberg, the NIH/NIBIB Director has visited Stony Brook as a host of Dr. Sunar.

 

• April 2024: Chris presented at the Optica Biophotonics Congress Conference, related to the compact FPGA-DCS approach

 

• March 2024: Dr Sunar has been selected as a Standing Member of the NIH/Imaging Technology Development (ITD) Panel

 

• Jan  2024:  Fall 2023 Office of the Vice President for Research Seed Grant is awarded.

 

• Nov 2023:  Center for Healthy Aging Pilot Grant is awarded.

 

• Sep 2023:   Sahar Sabaghian (Ph.D. Student) SBU, best poster presentation award.

 

NCI Cancer Research Grant (SBU News):

Development of Light Endoscope to Improve Ovarian Cancer Detection

NIH Brain Initiative Grant:
Brain Initiative Grant

 

Selected Previous News:

Science Spinoff Report: A new approach For Brain Measuring Brain Function Connectivity. (08/2018)
WSU News: Imaging researchers demonstrate a novel approach for measuring brain function connectivity. (05/2018) (Link)
Biophotonics. world: Optical Technology Advances Non-Invasive Functional Imaging of the Human Brain. (04/2018)
WSU News: Imaging Impact. (10/2015 (Link)
Optics.org (SPIE Events Europe): Novel endoscope gives a clearer view of cancers. (02/2015) (Featured) (Link)
Lung Cancer News Today: Innovative Endoscope That Zaps Tumors Under Development. (01/2015) (Link)
UB News: Researchers Develop Device to Find and Destroy Cancer Cells. (01/2015)
HighBeam:  Ulas Sunar Developing New Endoscope to Detect and Treat Cancer. (2015)
BioOptics World: Novel endoscope can Znd and destroy cancer cells. (12/2014)
Photonics Online: Tumor-Blasting Endoscope Seeks And Destroys Cancer Cells. (12/2014) (Link)
UB News: This endoscope zaps tumors. Researchers are developing a biomedical device that can detect and destroy cancer cells. (12/2014) (Link)
Medical Research: Endoscopic Imaging System Sees and Treats Tumors.

Awards received by supervised Students and Researchers:

• 2023 – Sahar Sabaghian (Ph.D. Student) SBU, best poster presentation award.
• 2020 – Chien Poon (Ph.D. Student) WSU Travel Award.
• 2020 – Andrea Gomez (MS Student), NSF LSAMP Research Position.
• 2020 – Ben Rinehart (Ph.D. Student) RA Grant Award.
• 2019 – Chris Davies (MS student), Student Excellence Award for BME.
• 2018 – Chris Davies, Outstanding Student Award for BME.
• 2017 – Chien Poon, Graduate Student Excellence Award.
• 2017 – Chris Davies (Undergrad 4+1 student, WSU), Dean’s List.
• 2017 – Ernest Lee Mitchell (Undergrad student, WSU), BioStar Research Scholarship.
• 2016 – Syed Zaidi (MS student, WSU), Elected for membership of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society.
• 2014 – Daniel J Rohrbach (Ph.D. student, RPCI/UB), Travel Grant Award for the Annual Conference of the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, Phoenix, AZ.
• 2014 – Hakeem Salem (High School Student, City Honor Program), selected to advance to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), LA, CA.
• 2012 – Andrew Kowalczewski (M.S. student), 2nd Place Master Student Poster Award at the RPCI Science Retreat, SUNY-Geneseo, Geneseo, NY.
• 2011 – Ruby Goldberg, Best High School Student Poster Award at 59th Research Participation in Science, RPCI, Buffalo, NY.
• 2011 – Weirong Mo, Ph.D. (Postdoc), Poster Award at RPCI Science Retreat, Buffalo, NY.
• 2011 – Steven Torrisi, Best High School Student Poster Award at 58th Research Participation in Science, RPCI, Buffalo, NY.