Optica Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences

21 - 24 April, 2025

Loews Coronado Bay Resort
Coronado, California USA

Events

Seok Hyun Yun, PhD

Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Laser Particles for Single Cell Analysis

DNA-based cell barcoding has been critical in single-cell sequencing. Optical barcoding based on microlasers offers a new paradigm in single cell analysis, enabling us to integrate comprehensive single-cell data in large scale across multiple dimensions from dynamic behavior to molecular phenotypes.

About the Speaker

Andy Yun was born and raised in South Korea and received his PhD degree in Physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1997. His graduate study in fiber optics led to a venture-funded startup in Silicon Valley. After the entrepreneurial experience in telecom, he switched to the biomedical field and joined the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital as an Instructor in 2003 and rose to full Professor in 2017. He is serving as the Director of the Harvard-MIT Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics. He published over 230 journal papers. His research made significant contributions to the development of swept-source optical coherence tomography, Brillouin microscopy, bio-lasers and laser particles. His inventions produced over 100 patents, the majority of which have been transferred to the industry. He has received the MGH Research Scholar Award, NIH Director’s Pioneer Award in 2016 and NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award in 2021.