Conor Evans
Wellman Center for Photomedicine. Key interest: ultrasensitive oxygen detection and imaging technologies
About the Speaker
Dr. Evans lab’s research is focused on the development and clinical translation of optical microscopy and spectroscopy tools, with specific interests in ultrasensitive detection of molecular markers, label-free imaging of drugs and tissues, and the imaging and quantification of tissue oxygenation. Dr. Evans has led the use of coherent Raman imaging technologies in biomedicine, and was the first to apply this imaging toolkit for the real-time visualization of lipids in skin in vivo. He has developed a number of imaging devices and methods in the fields of coherent Raman imaging, nanoscience, and “smart” wearable sensing technologies. A recipient of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, his efforts in the synthesis of bright oxygen sensors has resulted in the creation of new oxygen imaging technologies currently in clinical trials. He is a Royce Fellow of Brown University and has been honored with several awards, including the Goldwater Scholarship, NASA Space Grants, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and the ASP New Investigator Award.
