Adam Wax
Professor at Duke University and Founder, Lumedica, Inc.
- Role
- Founder and President at Lumedica
- Location
- Durham, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Adam Wax
Optical spectroscopy has long held great promise for biomedical diagnostics. When used to assess the health of the human body, optical techniques offer the advantages that they are non-invasive, non-ionizing and can be implemented by simple, cost-efficient means. Recently, light scattering methods have begun to realize this potential through application to the detection of pre-cancerous lesions. The basis of these methods is to detect altered cellular morphology associated with early cancer by observing variations in the interaction between light and cell organelles through the distribution of elastically scattered light. The goal of our research is to develop new applications of low coherence interferometry (LCI) for detecting light scattered by cells and tissues as a method of determining their structural and functional features with sub-wavelength resolution. Among compelling applications of this approach are its use for diagnosing disease based on measuring cellular morphology in situ, which could lead to a method for detecting cancer in its earliest stages, and its use as a precision tool for cell biology experiments, leading to improved understanding of the basic functions of the cell and the origins of dysfunction due to diseaseSpecialties: Biophotonics, electronics, translational research.
Experience
Founder and President
Apr 2014 — Present · Durham, NC, US
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Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS, Electrical Engineering
1991 — 1993
University at Albany
BS, Physics
1988 — 1991
Duke University
PhD, Physics
1993 — 1999
Skills
- Matlab
- Medical Imaging
- Biophotonics
- Optics
- Photonics
- Image Processing
- Spectroscopy
- Physics
- Simulations
- Cell Biology
- Mathematical Modeling
- Experimentation
- Science
- Microscopy
- Nanotechnology
- Cell
- Signal Processing
- Mathematica
- Translational Research
- Sensors
- R&D
- Labview
- Cancer
- Interferometry
- Biomedical Engineering
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