Abstract: This lecture will describe my lab’s work to improve medicine with engineering along three axes. Acoustic and photoacoustic imaging are consistent themes. On the first axis, we engineer materials to have interesting optical properties. These materials—often nanoscale—can then report disease signatures through colorimetric or photoacoustic mechanisms. Second, I will discuss our work on new hardware and software tools to better acquire and process the data generated during imaging. The third axis is clinical translation: The presentation will include multiple examples of how this work has been validated in human patients including for wound care, oral health, COVID-19, and therapeutic drug monitoring of heparin anticoagulation therapy.

Bio: Jesse V. Jokerst is a Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego. Dr. Jokerst graduated cum laude from Truman State University in 2003 with a B.S. in Chemistry and completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Jesse was a postdoc at Stanford Radiology from 2009-2013 and was an Instructor in that same department from 2013-2015. Jesse started at UCSD in July of 2015, and he has received the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the NIH New Innovator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and Stanford Radiology Alumni of the Year Award. He is the PI of multiple federal grants and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Nano Materials and Nanoscale.

~BME Host: Hugh Lee~

Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/99457970566?pwd=ZHZRMTdCSG5IT1ZWQ053aEowWlFhdz09