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.