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Bass Chair Metal

Dr. Junjie Yao was named Bass Chair Fellow

Dr. Yao received the prestigious Bass Chair!

Dr. Yao elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows

Dr. Yao Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Dr. Yao elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows

Journal of Biomedical Optics, SPIE

Dr. Junjie Yao was appointed as Associate Editor of SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optic…

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56435-3

DAT paper published on Nature Communications

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56435-3

SPIE fellow

Dr. Junjie Yao was elected Fellow of SPIE, Class of 2025!

Junjie was elected Fellow of SPIE, class of 2025 for his seminal contribution in developing novel photacoustic imaging!

Junjie was promoted to Associate Editor for Science Advances

Dr. Junjie Yao was promoted to Associate Editor for the prestigious Science Advances

Dr. Yao is working with the Deputy Editors within the Physical and Materials Sciences group

PA and ULM of whole mouse brain

PI-Lab received CZI Collaboration Supplements Award with Dr. Pengfei Song

This grant is to support the work with Dr. Song on Noninvasive Deep- Brain Neurovascular Imaging with Light and Sound (CS-2024-Song) to develop a novel deep-brain imaging method that images both neuronal and vascular properties simultaneously of the whole-brain.

Soon-woo, Tu, and Junjie

PI-Lab featured at Invented at Duke 2024! Duke 100!

Our high-speed photoacoustic microscopy system was featured at Invented at Duke, part of Duke Centennial ceremony!

Duke 100, Invented at Duke

We are featured on Duke Daily (Duke 100)

We are featured by Duke 100, on our latest breakthrough on high-speed photoacoustic microscopy

Colton and Anthony receiving awards for outstanding academic achievement and scholarship as recognized by the NIH Diversity Fellowship

PI-Lab Members win Pratt/NIH Awards for Outstanding Academic Performance

Congrats to Colton and Anthony receiving awards for outstanding academic achievement and scholarship as recognized by the NIH Diversity Fellowship!

We are presenting the deep ultrasound printing technology to the congresssional staffers!

PI-Lab at NIH/NIBIB congressional demo!

We are invited to present at NIH/NIBIB for the congressional staffers.

UFF-PAM is HOT!

| https://www.nature.com/lsa/news#7

UFF-PAM is highly cited!

Image

An ultra-fast photoacoustic microscopy image of a mouse placenta taken via a window in the mouse’s abdomen.

Our placenta work is featured by Drug Discovery News

https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/profiling-the-spatial-secrets-of-the-…

Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy

Alan's work on Virtual-Point PAM was published in Journal of Biophotonics

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbio.202400078   

Oxygenate the Brain

We’ve Been Selected: the 2024 BRAIN Initiative Photo & Video Contest Public Voting

Oxygenate the Brain   Image description: A mouse brain cortical oxygenation map created by ultras-fast label-free photoacoustic microscopy. This shows the rich variation of the brain's oxygenation levels from low (blue-green) to high (yellow-red).