SPIE: SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, and SPIE Early Career Achievement Award is given annually to an early career professional in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions to any of the engineering or scientific fields of interest to SPIE.
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Lab on a Chip: Microfluidic & nanofluidic technologies for chemistry, physics, biology, and bioengineering.

NSF CAREER Award: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

National Geographic: National Geographic’s Emerging Explorers Program recognizes and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring young adventurers, scientists, photographers, and storytellers—explorers who are already making a difference early in their careers.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to bringing innovations in health and learning to the global community.

ScienceDaily: ScienceDaily is one of the Internet’s most popular science news web sites.

mHealth: A blog dedicated to bringing together the latest news and developments in the area of mobile health..

PhysOrg: PhysOrg.com is a leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics.

Award Description: Netexplorateur is an Observatory of new digital practices that gives out 10 awards annually, under the aegis of the offices of the Secretary of State for Strategic Studies and the Development of the Digital Economy and the French Senate.

Patent Description: Optical image processing and femtosecond spectroscopy using minimum-phase functions.

U.S. Patent No. 7,643,952

Issued: 1/5/2010

Article Title: Far From a Lab? Turn a Cellphone Into a Microscope.

Article Description: “We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” says Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at U.C.L.A.

Publish Date: November 7, 2009.

Awards Name: 2009 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

Awards Description: The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award addresses two important goals: stimulating highly innovative research and supporting promising new investigators.

Awards Name: 2009 MIT’s TR35 Award.

Awards Description: Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; The collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35.

Association: IEEE Photonics Society. (formerly LEOS)

Meeting Description: The Topical Meeting Series of the Photonics Society is the premier conference for emerging fields in photonic science, device technologies, and applications.

Awards Name: 2009 Wireless Innovation Project of Vodafone Americas Foundation.

Awards Description: The Vodafone Americas Foundation designed the Wireless Innovation Project as a competition to promote innovation and increase implementation of wireless related technology for a better world.

Association Name: Earth & Sky.

Interview Content: Prof. Ozcan describes his group’s effort and explains LUCAS.

Awards Name: 2009 ONR Young Investigator Award.

Awards Description: 15 awards were made out of a pool of >190 applicants.

Patent Description: A new optical coherence tomography set-up and data processing to achieve better resolution.

U.S. Patent No. 7,493,227

Issued: 2/17/09

Association Name: FrontlineSMS:Medic.

Congrads Anthony We are not surprised!!

Congrads Sungkyu!!

Awards Description: This award will provide a prize of $4,000 each to especially accomplished UCLA postdoctoral scholars recognized for their outstanding research.

Association Name: CNN.

Association Name: CBS Science Channel.

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller.

Language: English

ISBN-10: 3639104498

ISBN-13: 978-3639104493

Awards name: 2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Young Investigator Award.

Awards Description: The Young Investigator Award was established to honor an individual who has made outstanding technical contributions to photonics (broadly defined) prior to his or her 35th birthday.

A new tool for TeleMedicine: Lensfree On-Chip Imaging for High-throughput Cytometry and Point-of-care Diagnotics.

LEOS Newsletter is published bimonthly by the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Corporate.

Scholarship Description: The CARE Fellows Program provides students with little or no previous research experience the opportunity to receive financial support while participating in a research project with a faculty mentor.

A New Tool for TeleMedicine: Lens-Free On-Chip Imaging for High-Throughput Cytometry and Point-of-Care Diagnostics Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA.

Lifeboat Foundation: The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards the Singularity.

Congratulations to the co-authors of this work!

Artical name: Counting Cells in Seconds.

Artical description: A lensless imaging system finds and recognizes the shadows of T cells and bacteria.

Voice of America: The Voice of America is one of the world’s most trusted sources for news and information from the United States and around the world.

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Association name: National Institutes of Health.

Mission: NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.

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Competition name: RISE-UP poster competition.

Awards name: 2008 Okawa Foundation Research Awards.

Awards description: The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications was an authorized nonprofit organization to promote the growth and development of the information and telecommunications fields.

The University Written Qualifying Examination is known as the Ph.D. Preliminary Examination in The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Ph.D. students in Electrical Engineering are required to successfully complete a Ph.D. Preliminary Examination in order to progress into their Ph.D. studies.

Awards name: National Science Foundation Awards.

Awards description: The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.

The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in our Nation’s institutions of higher education, museums and science centers, and not-for-profit organizations.

The W.M. Keck Foundation was established in 1954 in Los Angeles by William Myron Keck, founder of The Superior Oil Company. Our Foundation is one of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations, with assets of more than $1 billion.