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Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics

Gerwin Puppels

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Raman Spectroscopy: Translation to the Clinic

Tissue analysis based on Raman spectroscopy holds much promise for clinical diagnostics and guidance of therapeutic interventions. The road from laboratory-to-clinic is long and bumpy and great. I will bring pictures of my journeys.

About the Speaker

Gerwin Puppels is the founder and managing director of RiverD International, which develops instruments and diagnostic applications, based on Raman spectroscopic tissue analysis. An example is the gen2-SCA family of in vivo skin analysis instruments. He is an associate professor at the Erasmus-university Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and has been active in the field of Raman spectroscopy for over 30 years, making significant contributions to the development of the technique. His current research interests include skin analysis and Raman-guided surgery/biopsy. He has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers and 18 patents. He holds a PhD in applied physics from the University of Twente, The Netherlands.

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