NTROI TEAMS

The Network for Translational Research: Optical Imaging (NTROI) Request for Applications was structured to support three or more multi-site teams that would include broad national and international representation from academia, NIH intramural, and device and drug industry investigators. The Network develops consensus processes for translational research, including optimizing emrging optical imaging systems, targeted or activatible probes, and validations. Long-term goals include development and delivery of common or similar platforms for measuring and extracting quantitative signatures from endogenous molecules or molecular probes that are cancer specific. Usee of combined signatures will improve sensitivity and specificity particularly for early cancer detection, cancer diagnosis, treatment and measurement of response to therapy.

NTROI Funded Projects

University of California, Irvine
Bruce Tromberg, Ph.D. (bjtrombe@uci.edu)
Breast Cancer Multi-Dimensional Diffuse Optical Imaging

Boston University
Irving Bigio, Ph.D. (bigio@bu.edu)
Optical Spectroscopy for Management of Cancer Treatment

University of Pennsylvania
Wafik El-Deiry, M.D., Ph.D. (wafik@mail.med.upenn.edu)
Network for Translational Research: Optical Imaging

Stanford University
Christopher Contag, Ph.D. (ccontag@cmgm.stanford.edu)
Detection of Neoplasia in the Esophagus