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Work Group 3 Life Sciences and Health
Topic of WG meeting:
Putting Biophotonics into clinic
Challenges of optical technologies in Life Sciences and Health
• Linear, mostly technology-driven approach
• Little exchange between optical technologies, medicine and life
sciences, and even within optical technologies
• Obstacles for companies: Little or no knowledge about users’ needs
and potential of photonic technologies
Solution: Paradigm shift introduced by Biophotonics
Evolving from a linear, technology-driven approach towards a holistic,
user- and market-oriented approach by involving the end-user
Work Group 3 Life Sciences and Health
Putting Biophotonics into clinic
Prof. Dr. Katarina Svanberg: The Doctor's View on Photonics Clinical Challenges and Technical Possibilities
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Berlien: Biophotonic - The Physicians Perspective
Prof. Dr. Axel Niendorf: Pathology - a Chance for Biophotonics
Dr. Martin Kaatz: Fiber net work of skin by multiphoton laser scanning
tomography - qualitative and quantitative features
Work Group 3 Life Sciences and Health
Putting Biophotonics into clinic
Résumé (1):
 Breaking down barriers between the different disciplines participating in
Biophotonics research
 Fundamentals of light / biological matter interaction for diagnostics and
especially for therapy
 Early diagnostics is the paramount factor for prognosis (separate
inflammation from early cancer and precancer)
 Minimize biopsies by performing optical biopsies (Elastic light scattering,
Fluorescence, Raman,…)
 Advanced spectroscopic techniques for a more precise tumor borders
detection
 Diagnostics (e.g. staging and grading of cancer) cannot be tackled by
one technique alone → Multimodal Approaches are necessary!
Work Group 3 Life Sciences and Health
Putting Biophotonics into clinic
Résumé (2):
 Advanced imaging and functional imaging methods (with new Markers)
 Image analysis
 Advanced Endoscopy combined e.g. with OCT
 Cross-disciplinary settings (technology pull, getting in close contact with
the health community (Health))
 The entire medical process needs to be optimized and standardized
(sampling, diagnostics and therapy)
Work Group 3 Life Sciences and Health
Putting Biophotonics into clinic
Résumé (3):
 Development and integration of realistic clinical systems:
 High performance light sources
 High resolution detector systems
 User-friendly software
 Robustness for mobility
 Realistic price (GP office use; less than 8000 Euro)
To do list:
 Working on the Strategic Research agenda
 Getting into contact with Health
 Defining projects with ETP nanomedicine