Adam Wax
Lumedica, CEO & Chief Scientist
About the Speaker
Adam Wax has been on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University since 2002. In 2006, Dr. Wax founded Oncoscope, Inc. to commercialize early cancer detection technology developed in his laboratory and in 2014, founded Lumedica, Inc. to develop low cost OCT systems. He is a fellow of Optica, SPIE, and AIMBE and is inventor on 20 US patents. He currently serves as the Editor-in-chief of the SPIE journal, Optical Engineering. His research interests are in the use of light scattering and interferometry to probe the biophysical properties of cells for both diagnosis of disease and fundamental cell biology studies.
