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In 2017, a special issue of the Frontiers of Optoelectronics (FOE) journal on Biophotonics in Europe was published [1]. The introduction to this special issue stated that “Biophotonics is an emerging interdisciplinary research area, embracing all light-based technologies applied to the life sciences and medicine” and referred to several books on biophotonics [1]. Since the first edition, several books on biophotonics have been published [2-10], new research groups have emerged all over the world, especially in the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. And also in the new BRICS countries such as Iran and Egypt. All these countries are actively developing scientific cooperation, as a result of which the Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics has been held alternately in China and Russia for many years [11-17]. The Chinese-Russian Workshop in 2024 was held in a hybrid mode, first in September in Saratov [18], and then in November in Sanya [19].
Starting from 2021, a BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics has also been organized, the first two were held online in Saratov (Russia), and the third in October 2024 - in a hybrid mode - online and offline in India (Manipal) [20]. Proceedings and books of abstracts of BRICS Workshop 2021/2023/2024 were published [21-23].
The FOE Biophotonics Special Issue is intended to bring together cutting-edge results of scientists, engineers and clinical researchers of various fields of science involved in the application of optics, photonics and imaging technologies to solve urgent problems of biology and medicine. The scope of this Issue ranges from basic research to instrumentation, preclinical and clinical research, mainly in those areas where researchers from the BRICS countries are world leaders. It is opened to participants of the above events and is also opened to all specialists working in the field of biophotonics. The topics are extensive and will cover (but are not limited to) the following:
· Optical Interactions in Tissue and Cells
· Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Imaging
· Advanced Optical Techniques for Clinical Medicine
· Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
· Nanobiophotonics
· Photonic Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Instrumentations
· Tissue Optical Clearing and Drug Delivery
· Antimicrobial and Antivirus Phototherapies
All papers will be subject to the normal peer review process for the FOE journal.
This issue is co-edited by:
Prof., Dr. Sc. Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State University, Russia
Valery V. Tuchin is the Head of the Department of Optics and Biophotonics and Science Medical Center of Saratov State University and cooperates with several other universities and academic institutions. His research interests include tissue optics, tissue optical clearing, laser medicine and nanobiophotonics. Prof. Tuchin is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of SPIE and OSA/OPTICA. He has been awarded the title of Honored Scientist of Russia, the SPIE Educator Award, the J.W. Goodman Book Writing Award, the M.S. Feld Biophotonics Award, “Professor of the Year”, the Vyzov Foundation’s “Scientist of the Year”, Chime Bell Award of the Chinese province of Hubei, D.S. Rozhdestvensky, S.I. Vavilov and A.M. Prokhorov Medals, and many other awards. His publications have been cited over 43000 times.
Prof.,Dr. Santhosh Chidangil, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India
Santhosh Chidangil is the Coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for Biophotonics, Professor and former Head, Department of Atomic and Molecular Physics from 2010 to 2022. Dr. Santhosh Chidangil specializes in several key research areas within the domain of biophotonics. His research areas include micro-Raman spectroscopy, optical pathology, single live cell spectroscopy, liquid biopsy and breath analysis using optical methods etc. Dr. Chidangil’s research is focused on applying these advanced techniques to medical diagnostics, thereby contributing significantly to the fields of biophotonics and health science. Dr. Chidangil has received several recognitions throughout his career, including: India Chair of the BRICS workshop on Biophotonics-2024, 2023 and 2021, Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Award for Biophotonics research, Sectional President, Physical Sciences, Indian Science Congress-107, 2020, Regular Associate (2001-2005), International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He has more than 230 articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Chidangil is life member of Indian Laser Association, Indian Physics Association, Laser and Spectroscopy Society of India, Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences (ISRAPS), SPIE, Optica/OSA and Optica (India)/OSI.
Prof. Dr. Qingming Luo, Hainan University, China
Qingming Luo is the President of Hainan University, President-Elect of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering (CSBME), and Chair of the MoE Steering Committee for Biomedical Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities. His research interests focus on multi-scale optical bioimaging and cross-level information integration. He has been devoted to new techniques and novel applications in life sciences, including optical molecular imaging, laser speckle imaging (LSI) in combination with optical intrinsic signal imaging (ISI), small animal imaging of fluorescence diffusion optical tomography (fDOT) coregistered with micro-CT, functional near-infrared (NIR) imaging, and micro-optical sectioning tomography (MOST). He is an elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), an elected Fellow of The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Optica (formerly OSA), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and Chinese Optical Society (COS).
Prof. Vanderlei S. Bagnato – University of Sao Paulo -Brazil and Texas A&M University – TX - USA
PhD from MIT (1987). Double major in Material Science Engineering (Universiade Federal de São Carlos - Brazil - 1981) and Physics (Universiade de São Paulo - Brazil - 1981). Received the title of “Livre – Docent” by the University of São Paulo (1989) and Full Professor by the University of São Paulo (1993). Recently he has also joined the Texas A&M University in Biomedical Engineering in USA to establish a Center for Biphotonic. His activities are based on laser cooling, trapping of neutral atoms, and applications of optics and laser to health science. In special photodynamic for cancer and microbiological control. Has published over 800 papers in international journals with about 30000 citations. During his academic life, he has supervised more than 130 graduate students. Members of the following academies: National Academy of Science NAS - (USA), Pontifical Academy of Science (Vatican), TWAS, Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC), and Latin America Academy of Science (ACAL). Has received many national and international prizes in science and technology.
Prof. Heidi Abrahamse University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Heidi Abrahamse is a Distinguished Professor, Director of the Laser Research Centre since 2007 and has held the DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Laser Applications in Health in the faculty of Health Sciences since 2015. She has published 347 peer reviewed accredited journal articles, 65 accredited full paper proceedings, 55 chapters and 2 books with a Scopus H-index of 56. She has consistently demonstrated exceptional academic achievement, as evidenced by her inclusion in Stanford University’s prestigious Top 2% Scientists list for four consecutive years: 2020-2024. Her research focusses on Photodynamic therapy and Photobiomodulation, with a particular interest in cancer diagnosis and treatment, diabetic wound healing, and regenerative therapy. She has supervised 28 honours, 62 masters, 40 doctorates and hosted 32 post-doctoral fellows. Her extensive service on various Faculty, University, National, and International Committees and Boards, including the National Health Research Committee and the UJ Council, underscores her unwavering commitment to academia and research. Prof. Abrahamse has received numerous national and international research awards, including being the first and only female to win the Distinguished Vice-Chancellor Award for Excellence in Research twice, 2 IPA awards and the HERS Lifetime Achiever Award.
Prof. Dan Zhu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dan Zhu is Distinguished Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, SPIE/Optica Fellow, Director of Advanced Biomedical Imaging Facility, Vice-director of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics. She has been focusing on tissue optical clearing imaging. She has owned more than 200 peer-review papers in Science Advances, Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications etc, and more than 100 plenary or invited talk on international conferences, including SPIE Bios Hot Topic. She is an Associate editor of Journal of Biomedical Optics, Editorial Member or Guest Editor of Biomedical Optics Express, Scientific Reports, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, and Frontier of Optoelectronics etc.
1. V.V. Tuchin, E. Borisova, M. Jędrzejewska-Szczerska, M.J. Leahy, F.S. Pavone, J. Popp, J. Pozo. A special issue on Biophotonics in Europe. Front. Optoelectron., 2017, 10(3): 203‒210 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-017-0757-x
2. C. Boudoux, Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics: From Light Interactions with Cells to Complex Imaging Systems. United States: Pollux, 2017. – 428 p.
3. A.H.-P. Ho, D. Kim, M.G. Somekh (Eds.), Handbook of Photonics for Biomedical Engineering, Springer Dordrecht, 2017.– 968 p.; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5052-4
4. G. Popescu, Principles of Biophotonics: Linear Systems and the Fourier Transform in Optics, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK, 2018.– 200 p.; DOI: 10.1088/2053-2563/aae121
5. K. König (Ed.), Multiphoton Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging: Applications in Biology and Medicine, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. – 450 р.; DOI: 10.1515/9783110429985
6. L. Oliveira and V.V. Tuchin, The Optical Clearing Method: A New Tool for Clinical Practice and Biomedical Engineering, Basel: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019. – 188 p.
7. V.V. Tuchin, J. Popp, and V.P. Zakharov (Eds.), Multimodal Optical Diagnostics of Cancer, Basel: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020. – 600 р.
8. R. Choe, J. Xia, Biomedical Optical Imaging: From Nanoscopy to Tomography, AIP Publishing, 2021. – 360 р.; DOI: 10.1063/9780735423794
9. V.V. Tuchin, D. Zhu, and E.A. Genina (Eds.), Handbook of Tissue Optical Clearing: New Prospects in Optical Imaging, Taylor & Francis Group LLC, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (2022). – 688 p.
10. A.V. Dunaev, V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Biomedical Photonics for Diabetes Research, Taylor & Francis Group LLC, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2022. – 278 p.
11. Q. Luo, V.V. Tuchin, L. Wang (Eds.), The special issue on celebrating the 15th anniversary of JIOHS and the 70th anniversary of HUST, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences 16(1), 2302001 (2023) DOI: 10.1142/S1793545823020017
12. P.A. Dyachenko, D. Zhu, V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics-2020, Saratov, 29-30 September 2020. Book of Abstracts, “Saratovskii istochnik”, Saratov, 2020. – 97 p.; DOI 10.24412/cl-36013-2020-1-8-9;
13. P. Dyachenko, T.Yu, D. Zhu, and V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Special Issue on Advances in Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics, J. Innov. Opt. Health Sci. 14 (5), 2102003-1-2 (2021); DOI: 10.1142/S179354582102003X
14. P. Dyachenko, T. Yu, D. Zhu, V.V. Tuchin, Special Issue on Advances in Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics: Part II, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences 15 (1), 2202001(2022). DOI: 10.1142/S179354582102003X
15. P.A. Dyachenko, D. Zhu and V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics-2022. Book of Abstracts, “Saratovskii istochnik”, Saratov, 2022. – 51 p.; DOI 10.24412/cl-37003-2022-1-5-6;
16. P.A. Dyachenko, D. Zhu and V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics-2023, Saratov, Russian Federation: Publishing house “Saratov source”, 2023. – 50 p.; DOI 10.24412/CL-37135-2023-1-5-5; chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sfmconference.org/files/ch-rus-2023-new.pdf
17. T. Yu, D. Zhu, and V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), Special Issue for Chinese-Russian Workshop on Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics, Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences 17 (05), 2402001 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793545824020012
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21. P.A. Dyachenko, Q. Luo, V.S. Bagnato, S. Chidangil, H. Abrahamse, V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics-2021. Book of Abstracts, “Saratovskii istochnik,” Saratov, 2022; DOI 10.24412/cl-36896-2021-1-7-7
22. P.A. Dyachenko, Q. Luo, V.S. Bagnato, S. Chidangil, H. Abrahamse, V.V. Tuchin (Eds.), BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics-2023, Proc. BRICS Workshop, September 27–29, 2023, Saratov, Russian Federation: Publishing house “Saratov source”, 2023. – 200 p.; DOI 10.24412/cl-37136-2023-1-7-15; chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://sfmconference.org/files/brics-2023-new.pdf
23. S. Chidangil, V.V. Tuchin, Q. Luo, V.S. Bagnato, H. Abrahamse (Chairs/Editors), BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics – 2024, October 03 - 05, 2024, Maniple, India conference.manipal.edu/BWB2024/Default