11/2009: The New York Times reports on LUCAS and its adaptation to a cellphone.
09/2009: Prof. Ozcan receives the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
08/2009: Prof. Ozcan receives MIT’s TR35 Award.
07/2009: Prof. Ozcan has been named as the General Co-Chair of IEEE Photonics Society Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging in BioPhotonics. More information to come. Spain, Jan 2010.
04/2009: Our Group wins the 2009 Wireless Innovation Project of Vodafone Americas Foundation. Read more.
03/2009: Prof. Ozcan gives an interview on Earth & Sky Radio Series on LUCAS. You can listen the interview here.
03/2009: Prof. Ozcan receives the 2009 ONR Young Investigator Award. 15 awards were made out of a pool of >190 applicants.
03/2009: Prof. Ozcan’s 15th patent has been issued. US Patent # 7,493,227. See his complete list of issued and pending patents here.
03/2009: The inventors of LUCAS and FrontlineSMS:Medic are now partnering to bring their technologies together to provide solutions to several global health related problems in the developing world. This exciting joint effort will be lead by Prof. Ozcan and Ken Banks of FrontlineSMS.
03/2009: Anthony Erlinger of the LUCAS team wins the Best Poster Award at the California Alliance for Minority Participation Symposium at UC Irvine. Congrads Anthony – We are not surprised!!
02/2009: Another honor for the Ozcan Group: Dr. Seo of the LUCAS team has received the 2009 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. Congrads Sungkyu!
02/2009: CNN and CBS – Science Channel independently report on LUCAS. watch the interview on LUCAS
01/2009: Prof Ozcan’s book on “non-destructive optical characterization tools” is now available in all major stores including Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
01/2009: Prof. Ozcan gives an interview to CBS. Here is a shot from the interview scene.
11/2008: Prof. Ozcan receives the 2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award.
10/2008: Prof. Ozcan organized the first BioPhotonics Workshop at UCLA.
10/2008: Our Group’s work on LUCAS appears at the cover of IEEE LEOS Newsletter, October Issue.
10/2008: Our undergraduate student, Anthony Erlinger, of the LUCAS team wins a prestigious fellowship.
10/2008: Prof. Ozcan gives an invited lecture at Lehigh University’s Advanced BioPhotonics Imaging Technologies Workshop.
10/2008: Prof. Ozcan joins the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.
10/2008: The Ozcan Group receives an Outstanding Paper Award in the Annual Fall Meeting of BMES. Congratulations to the co-authors of this work!
09/2008: MIT’s Technology Review Magazine highlights our on-chip cytometry work on LUCAS.
09/2008: Prof. Ozcan had an interview with Ozge Ovun from Voice of America News. Here is a shot from the interview: VOA Interview Watch the Interview
09/2008: Prof. Ozcan is organizing a BioPhotonics Workshop at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department on October 24th. Please see the flyer for the details. RSVP is required.
09/2008: Prof. Ozcan wins an NIH R21 award on nano-plasmonics.
09/2008 Our cytometry technique LUCAS is now in the news. Check it out here. For more links refer to our Research Interests.
08/2008 Congratulations to Anthony Erlinger as he received the 3rd place in UCLA’s RISE-UP poster competition.
08/2008 Prof. Ozcan is one of the recipients of the 2008 Okawa Foundation Research Awards.
04/2008: Bahar and Justin pass their PhD preliminary exam with an outstanding success qualifying for a departmental fellowship.
03/2008: Prof. Ozcan wins an NSF award on Biophotonics for Human Health.
11/2007: Prof. Ozcan’s proposal together with Prof. Bahram Jalali has been selected to represent UCLA for NSF MRI opportunity on high-resolution near-field spectroscopy.
10/2007: Prof. Ozcan’s proposal together with Profs. Diana Huffaker and Bahram Jalali has been selected to represent UCLA for Keck Foundation Phase I submission on mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopy.