Bruce J. Tromberg
Encyclopedia
Bruce J. Tromberg is an American photochemist. He is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine
and at the The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at Irvine. He is also the Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at Irvine.
in 1979, and a M.S.(1983) and Ph.D.(1988) in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee
, working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
He is a specialist in the area of the interaction of laser radiation and tissue, and particularly in using diagnostic techniques including optical tomography and other methods such as photon migration—a technique of which he is the developed—to analyze the effects of laser energy on tissue. He has also worked more generally in the field of biomedical optics including tissue optical spectroscopy, frequency-domain photon migration, non-linear microscopy, and photodynamic therapy.
Tromberg is serving a two year term on the SPIE Board of Directors that will be completed at the end of this year. He has been a member of the SPIE Publications Committee for a number of years and is currently editor-in-chief of SPIE's Journal of Biomedical Optics
He has supervised the research of over 19 postdoctoral fellows, and of 9 Ph.D. students.
Among his most important papers are:
and similar earlier grants.
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...
and at the The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at Irvine. He is also the Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at Irvine.
Education and specialty
Tromberg received a B.A., in Chemistry from Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...
in 1979, and a M.S.(1983) and Ph.D.(1988) in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee
University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee is a public land-grant university headquartered at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States...
, working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle. ORNL is the DOE's largest science and energy laboratory. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville...
He is a specialist in the area of the interaction of laser radiation and tissue, and particularly in using diagnostic techniques including optical tomography and other methods such as photon migration—a technique of which he is the developed—to analyze the effects of laser energy on tissue. He has also worked more generally in the field of biomedical optics including tissue optical spectroscopy, frequency-domain photon migration, non-linear microscopy, and photodynamic therapy.
Career
Tromberg has chaired several OSA meetings on biomedical optics and served as a member of several NIH panels on imaging related topics. He has been a guest editor of both OSA and Lasers in Medicine and Surgery journals and has also been on the advisory council on optical technologies for the US Public Health Service.Tromberg is serving a two year term on the SPIE Board of Directors that will be completed at the end of this year. He has been a member of the SPIE Publications Committee for a number of years and is currently editor-in-chief of SPIE's Journal of Biomedical Optics
He has supervised the research of over 19 postdoctoral fellows, and of 9 Ph.D. students.
Publications
His publications include 40 peer-reviewed papers, 115 conference papers, 14 book chapters, and 10 patents.Among his most important papers are:
- Zoumi, A. Yeh, A. Tromberg, B.J. Imaging Cells And Extracellular Matrix In Vivo Using Second-Harmonic Generation And Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence, . Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, , 99, 11014–11019, 2002.
- Shah, N., Cerussi, A., Eker, C., Espinoza, J., Butler, J., Fishkin, J., Hornung, R., Tromberg, B. Non-Invasive Functional Optical Spectroscopy of Human Breast Tissue. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 98, 4420-4425, 2001.
- Fishkin, J. B., Coquoz, O., Anderson, E. R., Brenner, M., Tromberg, B. J. Frequency-domain photon migration measurements of normal and malignant tissue optical properties in a human subject. Applied Optics. 36: 10-20, (1997).
- Tromberg, B.J., Coquoz, O., Fishkin, J.B., Pham, T., Anderson, E.R., Butler, J., Cahn, M., Gross, J.D., Venugopalan, V., Pham, D. Non-Invasive Measurements of Breast Tissue Optical Properties Using Frequency-Domain Photon Migration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London pt.B. 352, 661-668 (1997).
Grants
Principal Investigator:- National Institutes of HealthNational Institutes of HealthThe National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
4/1/99-4/31/03, Laser Microbeam Biotechnology Resource, $5.1 million - U.S. Army, (BC972457), 9/30/98-10/30/01, Measurements of Breast Tissue Optical Properties, $122,120
- California Breast Cancer Research Program, 07/01/00 – 06/30/03, Non-Invasive Optical Characterization of Breast Physiology, $499,915
- National Science Foundation, 2/1/00-2/1/02 , Fiber Optics Confocal Module for Biomedical Application (SBIR - Intelligent Optical Systems), $59,302
and similar earlier grants.
Awards and honors
- SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering Fellow, 2007
- Gordon Research ConferenceGordon Research ConferencesGordon Research Conferences are international scientific conferences organized by a non-profit organization of the same name. The conference topics cover frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies. The conferences have been held since...
on Lasers in Biology and Medicine, U.S. Chair, 2004. - Spring 2001: Optical Society of America, Bio-Optics Working Group, chairman elect
- November 2000: Coherent-Biophotonics “Young Investigator in Biophotonics” Award.
- April 2000 – present: Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Research Scholar.
- September 1999: Cornelius Hopper Innovation Award, California Breast Cancer Research Symposium.
- July/1999–present: Editor - in - Chief, Journal of Biomedical Optics.
- July 1997 : The Engineering Foundation, Advances in Optical Technology for Medicine and Surgery, Co-chairman, Biannual meeting, Snowbird, Utah.