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The DoseOptics team and camera

Feb 05, 2026

Top Biophotonics Device

Professors Petr Brůža and Brian Pogue—along with former Thayer professor and now CTO of DoseOptics, Venkat Krishnaswamy—attended the Prism Awards Celebration at SPIE's Photonics West conference where DoseOptics' Clinical Cherenkov Imaging was listed in the top three biophotonics devices of 2025. (See Pogue's recent Commercialization Report published in Biophotonics Discovery) "What a treat to be at the world's largest biomedical optics conference with my brilliant colleagues, designers of the BeamSite Cherenkov Imaging camera. In only one year, with over 40 installations in place and planned worldwide, this technology will help keep radiation therapy advances safe for all patients," said Pogue.

Priyanshu Alluri, Zequn Chen, and Wesley Marrero

Jan 29, 2026

A Socially-Fair Framework for Measuring Student Well-Being

Priyanshu Alluri '26, PhD student Zequn Chen, and Professor Wesley Marrero presented a socially-fair framework, published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Open, that ensures homogeneous clustering performance across demographic groups while minimizing within-cluster variability. "The study integrates fairness considerations into clustering algorithms to reduce discrepancies in risk stratification and provides insights into socioeconomic drivers of student well-being," said Marrero.

Adelaide Cagle working in Hixon Lab

Jan 29, 2026

Making Skin Stick

Hixon Lab PhD candidate Adelaide Cagle is first-author on "Keratin Additive for Cellular Adhesion in Transcutaneous Prosthetics," with co-authors including NH BioMade trainee Lois Szulc, Jack Flaggert '26, Yowis Arias '24 Th'25, Annika Nikhar '26, and Professor Katie Hixon. Published in Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, the paper explores how incorporating hydrolyzed keratin into electrospun and cryogel scaffolds enhances cell adhesion and proliferation. "This study highlights a promising biomaterials strategy to improve dermal integration at skin-implant interfaces," said Hixon.

Huilin Qing with her poster at MRS

Jan 22, 2026

Converting Carbon Emissions into Fuels for Net Neutrality

PhD students Huilin Qing and Baiheng Li, and Professor Weiyang "Fiona" Li co-authored "Protonation pathway for CO2 reduction mediated by coordinated H2O on active sites" published in Nature Communications. This work, presented by Qing, was nominated for "Best Poster Award" at the 2025 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting which drew over 6,000 attendees from 50+ countries.

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