Previous Pascal Rol awards
Year
Awardee
Other finalists
2024
Viacheslav Mazlin
Langevin Institute, ESPCI,
Quinze Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital
Paris, France
Optical transmission tomography (OTT) in health and disease: uniting micro and macro worlds
Sunhong Jeong
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
KI for Health Science and Technology,
KAIST, South Korea
Ultrawide-field retinal OCTA using a stretched-pulse mode locking laser
Qiuzhi Ji
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Method for assessing structure and function of cone photoreceptors with multiple outer segment reflections in healthy and diseased eyes
Lea Krafft
DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris, Palaiseau
Paris Eye Imaging Group, Centre d’Investigation Clinique 1423, Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Hospital, DGOS, INSERM
Paris, France
High contrast and high speed multimodal imaging platform: The adaptive optics -confocal rolling slit ophthalmooscope (AO-CRSO)
Reddikumar Maddipatla
Center for Human Ophthalmic Imaging Research (CHOIR), Dept. of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, EyePOD Imaging Lab, Dept. of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, UC Davis
Sacramento, CA, USA
Exploring optoretinographic responses of photoreceptor function in disease-affected retinas
Bingyao Tan
Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, SERI-NTU Advanced Ocular Engineering (STANCE) Program
Singapore
Light-evoked deformations in rod photoreceptors, pigment epithelium and subretinal space revealed by prolonged and multilayered optoretinography
2023
Yan Liu
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomingon, IN, USA
Low-latency, photon-efficient wavefront sensing for ultrafast adaptive optics imaging of the human retina.
Marcel T. Bernucci
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Photopigment density variation of individual cone photoreceptors revealed by phase-sensitive AO-OCT.
Pooja Chauhan
Dept. of Radiology, NYU Langone Health
New York, NY, USA
From soma to synapse: imaging age-related photoreceptor changes in the mouse with visible light optical coherence tomography.
Guanping Feng
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester and Center for Vision Science
Rochester, NY, USA
Quantitative phase and volumetric retinal imaging using angleresolved AOSLO imaging.
Kristen Hagan
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,
Durham, NC, USA
Dual modality handheld adaptive optics optical coherence tomography probe for in vivo 3-D photoreceptor imaging.
Qiuzhi Ji
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington IN, USA
S-cone identification using AO-OCT cone structural measurements and support vector machine classifier.
2022
Charles Zhijie Chen
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Electric Field Shaping for High Resolution in Photovoltaic Retinal Prosthesis
Kristen Hagan
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
First handheld adaptive optics optical coherence tomography probe for in vivo imaging of photoreceptors
Zhuolin Liu
Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD, USA
Multifunctional and multimodal Fourier domain mode-locked laser-based adaptive optics system for ultrahigh speed retinal cellular imaging
Elisabet Rank
Medical University of Vienna, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Vienna, Austria
In vivo retinal swept source optical coherence tomography using photonic integrated circuits centered at 840 nm
2021
Pedro Mecê
Institut Langevin, Paris PSL, Université Paris DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay
Paris, France
Adaptive glasses wavefront sensorless Full-Field OCT for high-resolution retinal imaging over a wide field-of-view
Serge Meimon
DOTA, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay
Paris, France
Optical Incoherence Tomography: a method to generate tomographic retinal cross-sections with non-interferometric adaptive optics ophthalmoscopes
Marcel Bernucci
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Noninvasive method to objectively measure the spectral sensitivity of individual cone photoreceptors using AO-OCT
Clara Pfäffle
Medical Laser Center, Institute of Biomedical Optics, Univeristy of University of Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
Phase-sensitive Measurements of Depth Dependent Signal Transduction in the Inner Plexiform Layer
2020
Lassoued Ayoub
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomingon, IN, USA
Measuring dysfunction of cone photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa with phase-sensitive AO-OCT
Mehdi Azimipour
Vision Science and Advanced Retinal Imaging Laboratory, Dept. of Ophthalmology and Vision Science,
UC Davis Eye Center
Sacramento, CA, USA
Investigating the functional responses of human cones and rods with a combined adaptive optics SLO-OCT system.
Kristen Hagan
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Wavefront sensorless multimodal handheld adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope for in vivo imaging of human retinal cones.
Soltanian-Zadeh Somayyeh
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Fully automatic quantification of individual ganglion cells from AO-OCT volumes via weakly supervised learning.
2019
Furu Zhang
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Tracking dynamics of photoreceptor disc shedding with adaptive optics OCT
Kazuhiro Kurakawa
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Method to track and measure loss of inner retinal neurons in the living human eye.
Tingwei Zhang
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis
Davis, CA, USA
In vivo imaging of inner plexiform layer lamination with visible light.
2018
Kazuhiro Kurokawa
School of Optometry, University of Indiana
Bloomington, IN, USA
Method to investigate temporal dynamics of ganglion cell and other inner retinal cells in the living human eye
Theodore Du Bose
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Handheld Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy for in vivo Imaging of Adults and Infants
Viacheslav Mazlin
Institute Langevin, ESPCI, PSL Research University
Paris, France
In vivo imaging through the entire thickness of human cornea by full-field optical coherence tomography
Ruobing Qian
Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Anterior Chamber Blood Cell Differentiation Using Spectroscopic Optical Coherence
2017
Furu Zhang
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Tracking dynamics of photoreceptor disc shedding with adaptive optics OCT
2016
Liu Zhuolin
School of Optometry, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Advanced ophthalmic imaging
2015
Francesco LaRocca
Biophotonics Laboratory, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Ultra-compact switchable SLO/OCT handheld probe design
2014
Marco Ruggeri
Ophthalmic Biophysics Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami
Miami, FL, USA
Biometry of the Ciliary Muscle during Dynamic Accommodation assessed with OCT
2013
Yossi Mandel
Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
In-vivo Performance of Photovoltaic Subretinal Prosthesis.
2012
Clemens Alt
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
In vivo quantification of microglia dynamics with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope in a mouse model of focal laser injury
2011
James Loudin
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis
2010
Daniel Hammer
Physical Sciences Inc.
Andover, MA, USA
Multimodal adaptive optics for depth enhanced high-resolution ophthalmic imaging
2009
Kazuhiro Kurokawa
Computational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan
1 µm wavelength adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope
2008
Boris Povazay
Biomedical Imaging Group, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Minimum distance mapping using volumetric OCT: a novel indicator for early glaucoma diagnosis
2007
Yoshiaki Yasuno
Computational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Japan
Clinical examinations of anterior eye segments by three-dimensional swept-source optical coherence tomography
2006
Enrique Fernandez
Lab de Óptica, Univiversidad de Murcia
Murcia, Spain
Adaptive optics using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator for ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography
2005
Karsten Konig
Dept. of Biophotonics and Laser Technology, Saarland University
Hamburg, Germany
Cornea surgery with nanojoule femtosecond laser pulses
2004
Daniel Palanker
Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Attracting retinal cells to electrodes for high-resolution stimulation
2003
Igor Ermakov
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USANoninvasive optical techniques for the measurement of macular pigments
2002
Georg Schuele
Medical Laser Center, Institute of Biomedical Optics, Univeristy of University of Lübeck
Luebeck, Germany
Noninvasive temperature measurements during laser irradiation of the retina with optoacoustic techniques
2001
Matthew Smith
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Minimizing the influence of fundus pigmentation on retinal vessel oximetry measurements.