Keynote Speakers:

Hideaki Koizumi (Vice President of Engineering Academy of Japan, Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering)

"Mindscope: Present and Future
--- Building on the legacy of Britton Chance ---"

James Scott (Imperial College London, Fellow of the Royal Society, UK)

"Mitochondria in human blood brain barrier vascular endothelial cells compared to peripheral endothelial cells"

Peter Vaupel (University Medical Center, Mainz, Member of the Academy of Science and Literature at Mainz, Germany)

"Tumor Hypoxia: mechanisms, microregional heterogeneities and the role of

hypoxia-associated biomarkers"

Doug Wallace (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA)

"A Mitochondrial Etiology of Rare and Common Diseases and the Quest for New Diagnostic Modalities"

Lihong Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, USA, Fellow of the AIMBE, OSA, IEEE, and SPIE)

"Redefining the spatiotemporal limits of optical imaging: Photoacoustic tomography, wavefront engineering, and compressed ultrafast photography"

Invited Speakers:

Duane F. Bruley, East Carolina University, USA

"ISOTT from the beginning: a tribute to our deceased members (icons)"

Joseph P. Culver, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

"Mapping functional connectivity with optical imaging in humans and mouse models"

Yi Guo, University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China

"Research on initiating effect of acupuncture stimulation on acupoints"

Howard J. Halpern, University of Chicago, USA

"Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) Images of O2 Show Triple Negative Breast Cancer BACH1
Model Tumors Are More Hypoxic than BACH1 Knock Down:  Signaling Path → Phenotype"

Peter E. Keipert, KEIPERT Corp., Life Sciences Consulting, USA

"Clinical evaluation of MP4CO: A Phase 1b escalating-dose, safety and tolerability study in stable adult patients with Sickle Cell disease"

Joseph C. LaManna, Case Western Reserve University, USA

"Protective effect of dl-3-n-butylphthalide on recovery from cardiac arrest and resuscitation in rats"

Hao Lei, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
"Evidence of Altered Oxidative Cerebral Metabolism in A Rat Model of Type 1 Diabetes "

Lin Z. Li, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"Perspectives on an integrative biomedical imaging system for complex pathological processes"

Hanli Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

"Prefrontal cortex imaging under risk decision making and resting-state brain network in young and older adults: a volumetric DOT study"

Qingming Luo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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Avraham Mayevsky, Bar Ilan University, Isreal

"Brain mitochondrial NADH, microcirculatory blood flow and oxygenation compared to pulse oximetry
measurements under oxygen deficiency"

Shoko Nioka, National Chen Kung University, Taiwan, China

"Optical properties quantification with CWS and diffusion theory, two methods comparison; multi-distance method and multi-wavelength method"

Suhua Qi, Xuzhou Medical College, China

"Momordica charantia polysaccharides (MCP) could promote neurogenesis through activating Wnt/β-Catenin signaling pathway during cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury"

Jiangang Shen, the University of Hong Kong, China

"Peroxynitrite could be a molecular target for drug discovery from herbal medicine to prevent thrombolysis-induced hemorrhagic transformation in post-stroke treatment"

Kuangyu Shi, Technical University Munich, Germany

"Molecular imaging of tumor hypoxia: existing problems and their potential model-based solutions"

Kwang-Sup Soh, Seoul National University, Korea

"Recent progress in primo vascular system research"

Harold Swartz, Medicine at Dartmouth, USA

"First Clinical Tumor Oximetry Program Project Grant (PPG) Supported by NIH (NCI)"

Eiji Takahashi, Saga University, Japan

"Life with less oxygen: role of prolyl hydroxylase pathway activation in pHi stabilization in a cancer cell line"

Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia

"Blood perfusion and RBC velocity monitoring and control at tissue optical clearing"

Arjun G. Yodh, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"Recent advances to clinical blood flow measurement with Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy"

Hao F. Zhang, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

"Can optical coherence tomography quantify oxygen metabolism"

Zhihong Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

"Intravital optical imaging of immunotherapy against melanoma in tumor microenvironment"