Members

Qianqian Fang is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Northeastern University and affiliated with the Bioimaging and Signal Processing department research area. He is also an affiliated faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. After receiving his Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, he completed his PhD studies in Biomedical Engineering at the Thayer School in Dartmouth College. Soon after, he spent years as a professor in Harvard Medical School at the Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Fang's interests lie in innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to deliver life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods. Recent awards include Leading Innovation in Reimagining Global Health through the Innovation Countdown 2030 Initiative. More recently, he was awarded a five-year $1.7M NIH grant for "A Versatile High-Performance Optical Mammography Co-Imager."

Visit the Fang Lab website: Compuational Optics and Translational Imaging (COTI)

Mark Niedre is a professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University.

Visit the Niedre Lab website: https://sites.google.com/site/niedrelab/home

Bryan Q. Spring is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Physics and an Affiliated Faculty of Bioengineering (Northeastern University, Boston), and a Visiting Scientist at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School). As an undergraduate NSF fellow, he contributed to characterizing one of the intricate photophysical parameters of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) under the guidance of Robert S. Knox (Department of Physics, University of Rochester, NY). His doctoral work with Robert M. Clegg (Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) focused on developing fluorescence lifetime and quantitative FRET imaging. He developed patent pending technology for molecular imaging and selective treatment of cancer micrometastases during his postdoctoral fellowship in Tayyaba Hasan’s laboratory (Wellman Center for Photomedicine).

Visit the Spring Lab website: www.springlabnu.com

Vivek Venkatachalam is an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University. His group studies invertebrate neuronal activity through development using modern approaches to whole-brain calcium imaging, optogenetics, and quantitative behavior.

Before starting his lab at Northeastern, Vivek was a postdoctoral scholar in Aravi Samuel’s lab at Harvard, where he helped build tools for whole-brain calcium imaging in C. elegans. His PhD with Amir Yacoby focused on sensitive measurements of charge and heat in two-dimensional electron systems

Visit the Venkatachalam Lab website: https://venkatachalamlab.org/

Sam Chung is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University. He leads an effort to identify the mechanisms underlying lesion conditioning. Mammalian lesion conditioning stimulates central nervous system regeneration, promotes peripheral nervous system regeneration, and inhibits neuronal degeneration. Recent discoveries from the NeuroLab permit the systematic discovery of all genes involved in lesion conditioning.

Visit the Nerolab website: https://sites.google.com/view/wormneurolab/

Abbas Yaseen is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Northeastern University. He directs the Optical Microscopy and Neuro-Imaging lab in the Northeastern Bioengineering Department. The OMNI lab develops innovative intravital microscopy methods and applies them to study brain function in preclinical rodent models. Studies focus on detailed characterization of brain energy metabolism, microvascular hemodynamics, and immune function at the microscopic scale in the living cortex of mouse and rat models.

Visit the OMNI lab website: https://www.yaseen-omnilab.org