This is a huge accomplishment! Congrats Kenny! Dr. Byungchan (Kenny) Kim has been awarded the 2025 College of Engineering Best Dissertation Award for his outstanding doctoral research titled:"Mapping Cerebral Blood Flow with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy" Boston University Biomedical Engineering

We’re honored to share that our work on “Affordable Metamaterial Devices for Faster, More Accessible MRI” has been named a Finalist in the Game Changing Innovation of the Year category at the 2025 Global Good Awards. 📌 Full list of finalists: globalgoodawards.co.uk/2025-global-go…

Boston University rises in new rankings of world universities and cited as a digital leader in higher education. Check it out ➡️ spr.ly/60184bJHw

BRAINBOW BULLETIN: Profiles Prof. John Ngo, whose lab develops tools to study and reprogram cells at the molecular level; spotlights a new technique using generative AI to design RNA from Prof. Alex Green. READ>> mailchi.mp/bu/brainbow-6-… SUBSCRIBE!>>bu.edu/kilachandcente…

Another great turnout for the Kilachand Center, Boston University Community Barbecue! Fortunate that we always get such good weather for these!

📄Just out: Our paper "Phase Gradient Ultra-Open Metamaterials for Broadband Acoustic Silencing" Scientific Reports, 15: 21434 (nature.com/articles/s4159…) 📷We hope this work marks a meaningful step toward practical, high-performance noise-control solutions that preserve airflow.

Elise Morgan is our next dean! BU Provost: Elise showed “exemplary leadership” over 2 yrs as interim dean. "She has established her own vision for the college as a laboratory for innovation and a training ground for premier engineering talent." spr.ly/6012f6XLG

Continuing on our AI work for #Alzheimer's, in a paper just published we show how a trail making drawing test processed by AI can assess cognitive decline (tinyurl.com/2pkn2kp2). Joint with Framingham Heart Study and students at Hariri Institute for Computing, Boston University and Boston University.

We traveled to DC to talk to Congressional Staffers about the impact of NIH NIBIB funding. It enables us to develop synthetic biology tools to advance cell & genetic medicines for patients in need. REPOST to deliver the message that SCIENCE saves lives & makes America great!

New preprint from Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social lab, Brian DePasquale lab, and my lab! If you love (or hate) mosquitoes, have a look: doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… We used TEM to describe the circuitry used for CO2 detection by mosquitoes. As usual with mosquitoes, nothing is as expected! 🌬️🦟

🎓Congratulations to Dr. Roman Addokhi on completing his PhD dissertation titled “Development and Validation of Wearable Devices for Real-Time Sweat Biochemical Sensing.” #PhDDefense #WearableTech #Biosensors #SweatSensing #BostonUniversity

You asked, we listened! The submission deadline for 𝐟𝐍𝐈𝐑𝐒 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 is extended to 1 October 2025 spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro… Edited by Meryem Yücel, Alexander von Lühmann, Mamadou Diop, Anna Blasi Ribera #GlobalHealth #Neurophotonics #fNIRS #Neuroimaging

Neurophotonics' Special Section on Voltage Imaging is open for submissions! Edited by Amanda Foust, Kai Wang, François St-Pierre and Ahmed Abdelfattah spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro… #Neurophotonics #Neuroscience #OpticalImaging #Microscopy #Neuroimaging #BrainImaging

CONGRATS to Kate Herrema and Brad Rauscher on their respective NIH F31 predoctoral fellowships! Congrats to Nathan Chai on his Goldwater undergraduate scholarship! We have so much talent in our team!

We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

Love diffuse optical imaging and support open source science? Special Section "fNIRS Commons: Datasets and Tools for Open, Reproducible Science" is for you! Edited by Qianqian Fang /房骞骞/, Meryem Yucel, Alexander von Lühmann, Adam Eggebrecht spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro…

Years ago, we set out to create synbio tech to solve a major challenge: generating precision antibodies for challenging membrane proteins. It's a DREAM COME TRUE to report we've now launched K2 Therapeutics (k2-tx.com) to advance this into transformative medicines

JOB OPPORTUNITIES!! FYI, K2 is #hiring for two positions in the Research Biology and Synthetic Biology teams! If you’re excited about using cutting-edge science to solve big problems, then check out our careers page (lnkd.in/gvtFnZ5K) and apply now.

A beautiful New England summer day, perfect for a lab outing! Photography by the greatest and multitalented Prof. Martin Thunemann!

Neurophotonics supports #OpenScience, transparency, #Reproducibility, and trust in research. Data sharing enables others to reuse your data for new discoveries increasing your impact! spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neuro… #neuroscience #neurophotonics #microscopy #fNIRS