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About Optica Biophotonics Congress

Optica Biophotonics Congress is the leading technical meeting covering the full spectrum of biophotonics, where the science of light intersects with the technologies and practices of biology and medicine. The congress brings together topic areas previously organized through Optica’s Biomedical Optics and Optics in Life Sciences meetings in one unified program, with topic categories varying by year.

Its goal is to convene an international community of engineers, optical and medical scientists, physicians, early-career researchers and graduate students engaged in advancing optical methods for scientific discovery and translating those discoveries into practice. The congress provides opportunities for multidisciplinary exchange among researchers and practitioners with complementary interests and expertise.

The program features technical sessions with invited and contributed oral presentations, panel discussions, poster sessions and postdeadline papers, along with robust networking opportunities and special events.

Key themes include:

• Disease detection and monitoring, including real-time assessment of treatment efficacy and in vivo visualization of cancer margins.
• Drug imaging and delivery, including methods for assessing drug response and advancing targeted therapies.
• Remote health monitoring featuring emerging technologies that support decentralized and continuous care.
• AI-powered biomedical analysis using deep learning and machine learning to accelerate data interpretation and discovery.
• Translational biophotonics bridging the gap between research breakthroughs and clinical implementation.
• Neuroscience applications from brain imaging to optical tools for stimulating and monitoring neural activity.

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Optica Biophotonics Congress
26 - 29 April 2026 | Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA

• Clinical and Translational Biophotonics (Translational) 
• Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics (Microscopy)
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
• Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy (OT&S)
• Optics and the Brain (Brain)

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