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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>The Wellman Center for Photomedicine</title> <style type="text/css">  </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="./javascript/stmenu.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./javascript/wellman_menu.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="./javascript/wellman_utils.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript"> //Randomly show pictures var img_dir="./images/rotate/"; var research_img_index; var research_img_name = new Array("research1.jpg", "research2.jpg","research3.jpg","research4.jpg"); var research_img_over_name = new Array("research1over.jpg","research2over.jpg", "research3over.jpg", "research4-over.jpg"); function showResearchPics(status) { if (status==0) {//randomly load a picture var l = research_img_name.length; research_img_index = Math.floor(l*Math.random()); document.research_image.src = img_dir + research_img_name[research_img_index]; } else if (status==1) {//mouse over the picture, retrieve the corresponding picture document.research_image.src = img_dir + research_img_over_name[research_img_index]; } else {//otherwise think it mouse out document.research_image.src = img_dir + research_img_name[research_img_index]; } } var clinical_img_index; var clinical_img_name = new Array("clinical1.jpg", "clinical2.jpg","clinical3.jpg","clinical4.jpg"); var clinical_img_over_name = new Array("clinical1over.jpg","clinical2over.jpg", "clinical3over.jpg", "clinical4over.jpg"); function showClinicalPics(status) { if (status==0) { var l = clinical_img_name.length; clinical_img_index = Math.floor(l*Math.random()); document.clinical_image.src = img_dir + clinical_img_name[clinical_img_index]; } else if (status==1) { document.clinical_image.src = img_dir + clinical_img_over_name[clinical_img_index]; } else { document.clinical_image.src = img_dir + clinical_img_name[clinical_img_index]; } } </script> <link href="photomedhome.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />   <script>var __adobewebfontsappname__="dreamweaver"</script><script src="http://use.edgefonts.net/montserrat:n4:default.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body onload="MM_preloadImages('images/aboutover.gif','images/facultyover.gif','images/researchover.gif','images/clinicalimpactover.gif','images/opportunitiesover.gif','images/newsover.gif','images/givingover.gif','images/contactover.gif','images/homeresearchover.jpg','images/homeclinicalover.jpg')"> <table width="900" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="white" align="center"> <tr> <td height="155" colspan="3"><img src="images/homepagespectrum.jpg" usemap="#spectrum-homeMap" id="spectrum-home" border="0"/> <map name="spectrum-homeMap" id="spectrum-homeMap"> <area shape="rect" coords="571,11,732,53" href="http://www.massgeneral.org" alt="MGH Home Page" /> <area shape="rect" coords="748,10,880,52" href="http://hms.harvard.edu" alt="Harvard Medical School Home Page" /> </map></td> </tr>  <tr> <td colspan="3"> <div id="navcontainer"> <noscript><a href="about.htm"><img src="images/about.gif" alt="about section" id="Image1"/></a><a href="faculty.htm"><img src="images/faculty.gif" alt="faculty section" id="Image2"/></a><a href="research.htm"><img src="images/research.gif" alt="research section" id="Image3"/></a><a href="impact.htm"><img src="images/clinicalimpact.gif" alt="clinicalimpact section" id="Image4"/></a><a href="opportunities.htm"><img src="images/opportunities.gif" alt="opportunities section" id="Image5"/></a><a href="news.htm"><img src="images/news.gif" alt="news section" id="Image6"/></a><a href="giving.htm"><img src="images/giving.gif" alt="giving section" id="Image7"/></a><a href="contact.htm"><img src="images/contact.gif" alt="contact us section" id="Image8"/></a> </noscript> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left"><a href="research.htm"><img src="images/homeresearch.jpg" id="Image9" name="research_image" border="0" onmouseover="showResearchPics(1)" onmouseout="showResearchPics(2)" /></a></td> <td align="right"><a href="impact.htm"><img src="images/homeclinical.jpg" id="Image10" name="clinical_image" border="0" onmouseover="showClinicalPics(1)" onmouseout="showClinicalPics(2)" /></a></td> <script type="text/javascript"> showResearchPics(0); showClinicalPics(0); </script>   </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="images/homepagespectrumnarrow.jpg" width="900" height="8" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><div id="intro"><div id="introhead"><font-family: montserrat; > </font-family:><fontsty: bold></fontsty>The Wellman Center for Photomedicine...</div> <div id="introtext">Using and understanding light and its effects to improve health and advance medical science. Wellman’s multi-disciplinary faculty focuses on investigating the effects of light on human biology and discovering new diagnostic and therapeutic uses of light. </div> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="images/homepagespectrumnarrow.jpg" width="900" height="8" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="22" rowspan="3"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> <td> </td> <td width="22" rowspan="3"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> <td> </td> <td width="24" rowspan="3"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="416"><img src="images/news-events.gif" width="200" height="24"></td> <td width="416"><img src="images/fromresearchtopractice2.gif" width="172" height="20" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><span class="newssubhead">Celebration of Science: Read the Wellman Center for Photomedicine 2022 Thematic Center Report</span><a href="https://wellman.massgeneral.org/research-thematicreport.htm" class="more" target="new">  More>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">Dr. Seok-Hyun Yun receives the 2021 NIH Director's Transformative Research Award</span><a href="https://commonfund.nih.gov/tra/recipients" class="more" target="new">  MORE>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">Dr. Tayyaba Hasan receives the 2021 European Society for Photobiology Award for Excellence in Photobiological<br /> Research </span><a href="https://www.photobiology.eu/2021-esp-award-excellence-photobiological-research" class="more" target="new">  MORE>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">Bill Gates Picks Guillermo Tearney, MD's "Gut Probe in a Pill" as One of the 10 Inventions of Breakthrough Technologies Featured in </span><span class="newssubheadit">MIT Technology Review.</span><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/#gut-probe-in-a-pill" class="more" target="new">  MORE>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">Watch Bill Gates' Fox Business Interview "Top Breakthrough Technologies to Watch" – Includes Device Developed by MGH Investigator Gary Tearney.</span><a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/bill-gates-top-breakthrough-technologies-to-watch" class="more" target="new">  MORE>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">The Women’s Dermatologic Society 7th Annual Legacy Celebration honored Lynn Drake, MD</span><br> The celebration was held on March 1, 2019 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.  <a href="news.htm" class="more">MORE>></a></p> <p><span class="newssubhead">Dr. Tayyaba Hasan elected to the National Academy of Inventors as a Fellow</span><br> Fellows Induction Ceremony will be held on April 11, 2019.<a href="news.htm" class="more">  MORE>></a></p>  <td width="416" valign="top"> <img src="images/AndersonClinic_086.jpg" align="right" valign="top"><br> Wellman’s multi-disciplinary faculty focuses on investigating the effects of light on human biology and discovering new diagnostic and therapeutic uses of light. The integration of biological, physical, and clinical scientists within a premier academic medical center accounts for the Center's success in translating research into real world medical solutions and in training the  next generation of scientists.<br> <p><span class="newssubhead">Research Studies at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine</span><br> Do you want to participate in a research study happening at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine? We are recruiting volunteers to be patients for research studies.  <a href="research-clinicalstudies.htm" class="more">MORE>></a></p></td> </tr> </table> <br /> <img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="images/homepagespectrumnarrow.jpg" width="900" height="8" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="22" rowspan="2"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> <td><br><img src="images/global-outreach.gif" width="200" height="24"></td> <td width="22" rowspan="2"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> <td width="196"><br /> <img src="images/affiliations.gif" width="97" height="24" /></td> <td width="22" rowspan="2"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> <td width="196"><br /> <img src="images/supportwellman.gif" width="156" height="24" /></td> <td width="26" rowspan="2"><img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p><img src="images/vac-jan-2019.jpg" width="400" height="225"></p> <p><span class="ltgreenhead">Delegation from Wellman traveled to Saigon, Vietnam in January</span></p> <p>Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Center (VAC), a delegation of staff from the Wellman Center, including Dr. Rox Anderson, Vietnam VAC co-founder Dr. Thanh-Nga Tran, Clinical Research Coordinator Liz Morehouse, and Laurie Watson, RN traveled to Saigon, Vietnam in January 2019 to continue an international effort to provide state of the art care to children in Vietnam with disfiguring birthmarks. Joining members of the Wellman Center were over 20 physicians, students and volunteers from throughout the US, Switzerland, China and Pakistan.</p> <p>For more information, visit <a href="http://vietnamvac.org/" class="textlinkgreen" target="new">www.VietnamVAC.org</a></p> <hr> <p><span class="ltgreenhead">Wellman Center Humanitarian Mission to Armenia in May</span></p> <p>Dr. Lilit Garibyan and Dr. Rox Anderson from the Wellman Center for Photomedicine will be traveling to Yerevan, Armenia again in May of 2019. This trip will continue the humanitarian mission started in 2013 to treat patients for non-invasive, laser-based treatment of scars, vascular anomalies and pigmented lesions, as well as train Armenian physicans with laser use. We are grateful for the lasers donated by Candela and Quanta.</p> <img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /> <p id="pushdown"></td> <td width="196" valign="top"><br /> One of five Thematic Research Centers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching laboratory for the Harvard Medical School and an educational and training affiliate of the Health Sciences and Technology program at MIT.<br /> <br /> <img src="images/MGB-logo2.png" width="180" height="33" /> <br /> <br /> <img src="images/hstlogo.png" width="184" height="25" /><br /></td> <td width="196" valign="top"><br /> To learn how you can support the important work done at Wellman, please contact: <br /> <p>Kate Gutierrez<br /> Senior Director of Development for Research<br /> MGH Development Office<br /> 617-726-9234</p> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <br /> <br /> <a href="giving.htm" class="pointer"><img src="images/howtodonatehome.jpg" id="howtodonatehome" /></a><br /> <br /></td> </tr> </table> <img src="images/22px.gif" width="22" height="4" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <div id="homebottom"><a href="index.htm" class="bottom">HOME</a></div> <div id="aboutbottom"><a href="about.htm" class="bottom">ABOUT</a></div> <div id="facultybottom"><a href="faculty.htm" class="bottom">FACULTY</a></div> <div id="researchbottom"><a href="research.htm" class="bottom">RESEARCH</a></div> <div id="clinicalimpactbottom"><a href="impact.htm" class="bottom">CLINICAL IMPACT</a></div> <div id="opportunitiesbottom"><a href="opportunities.htm" class="bottom">OPPORTUNITIES</a></div> <div id="newsbottom"><a href="news.htm" class="bottom">NEWS</a></div> <div id="givingbottom"><a href="giving.htm" class="bottom">GIVING</a></div> <div id="contactbottom"><a href="contact.htm" class="bottom">CONTACT</a></div> <div id="sitemapbottom"><a href="sitemap.htm" class="bottom">SITE MAP</a></div> <div id="privacypolicybottom"><a href="privacypolicy.htm" class="bottom">PRIVACY POLICY</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="images/bottomspectrum.png" width="900" height="30" /><div id="copyright">Copyright © 2018 The Wellman Center for Photomedicine</div></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>