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Winter 2017/2018 Laser | Winter 2017/2018 LASER BECKMAN LASER INSTITUTE WINTER 2017/2018 LASER | WINTER 2017/2018 Executive Editor Bruce Tromberg Editors IN THIS ISSUE Gabrielle Comfort Sari Mahon IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE 1 Writers Elaine Kato BLIMC CELEBRATES 30 YEARS 2 Erin Miller Deborah Birnie RENAISSANCE IN LIGHT 4 Layout & Design Brian Hill IN MEMORIAM 6 Art TREATING THOSE IN NEED Alexandra Yount 8 Photography IMAGING INNOVATOR 10 Paul Kennedy Staff HONORED FELLOW OF SPIE 10 CEO AT AGE TWENTY-TWO 11 BLIMC Mission FAMILY TREATMENT 12 Discover new optics and photonics technologies for AND THE BEAT GOES ON biomedical research; Create 13 innovative, accessible methods and devices that transform healthcare; and Educate the next generation of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians. ARNOLD AND MABEL BECKMAN FOUNDATION AND UCI GIFT CHALLENGE COLLABORATIVE GIVING SUPPORTS THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE On the Cover Front: Professor Bernard Choi with Without the vision of Dr. Arnold Beckman, the Beckman Laser Institute and LASER technology for imaging Medical Clinic (BLIMC) would not be the interdisciplinary center that it is blood flow. today. Dr. Beckman, through the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, Back: Dr. Elliot Botvinick with his provided the original financial gift to establish the BLIMC. As a successful research team. scientist and businessman, Dr. Beckman preferred to donate in the form of matching grants, challenging others to invest. In honor of Dr. Beckman’s spirit of giving to advance science through philanthropic partnerships, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and UCI have teamed up to offer a $3.5 million matching fund. In order to meet the challenge and continue to move life-changing technologies from “bench to bedside,” we need your help. Your gift, no matter the size, will help support the mission of the BLIMC. The technologies that we create today will shape the future of medicine. 1002 Health Sciences Rd. To make a gift, please visit: connect.uci.edu/BLI or contact Gabrielle Irvine, California 92617 Comfort, director of development, at 949.824.8859 or [email protected]. devices barely existed when we were established, they now constitute an ~$80 billion annual market. With this enormous worldwide growth, the BLIMC must continue to develop cutting-edge optics and photonics technologies in order to remain vibrant and productive over the next 30 years. Converging Technologies. Recognizing this challenge, UCI Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Dr. Enrique Lavernia has made an $8 million investment in optics and photonics via the BLIMC-led Convergence Optical Sciences Initiative (COSI) (See page 2). Over the next five years, COSI will hire at least five new faculty and create a dedicated space for academic-industry collaboration and engagement that will help drive continued innovation and discovery for the next 30 years. In July, we welcomed our first COSI hire, Dr. Chris Barty, a pioneer in advanced laser technologies and UCI professor of Physics and Astronomy (See page 4 to learn more about Barty). Engineering Space and Time. COSI has been launched at just the right moment. However, the BLIMC building, a IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE state-of-the art facility 30 years ago, is now in urgent need of renovation and expansion. New COSI activities will put One of the few certainties in science is that it’s significant pressure on a structure carefully designed to impossible to predict the future. When the Beckman balance basic science and technology development with Laser Institute and Medical Clinic (BLIMC) was established clinical translation and commercialization; all under one in 1982, LASERs were revolutionary new tools with roof. The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has seemingly infinite potential. Despite their appeal, LASERs recognized this need and I am excited to announce that the circa 1982 were impractical, high-maintenance machines. Foundation recently committed $1.75 million to UCI in The futuristic vision for LASERs in Medicine was at odds support of the BLIMC renovation and expansion. UCI has with the everyday reality of how the technology worked. agreed to match this amount, giving us a total of $3.5 Over the years, dramatic advances have transformed million to launch a new captial campaign. We are making LASERs into compact, reliable instruments. It is now significant progress, but we need your help to continue to possible to meet those early expectations – and much move life-changing technologies from “bench to bedside.” more. This has propelled LASERs and related optics and photonics technologies to the forefront of biology and Full Circle. In 1982, a $2.5 million matching gift from the medicine. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation launched the BLIMC and helped drive forward a new scientific discipline. Hindsight is 20-20. On February 9, 2017, with more than Seeded once again by the Foundation, we now need 200 supporters in attendance, we reflected on the early additional support from our community of friends to provide days and celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the 1986 the right tools and talent to fulfill our mission. The BLIMC dedication of the BLIMC building (See page 2). We was established as, and remains, a powerful public-private recounted the story of how BLIMC co-founders Drs. Arnold partnership. With your help, we can leverage the generosity O. Beckman and Michael W. Berns met in 1979. A few of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and UCI to years later, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation put the right people in the right place – a remodeled and made a $2.5 million investment in a young professor, a new expanded BLIMC – at the right moment in time to shape the university, and an emerging technology. More than 30 years next 30 years of innovation and discovery. With your later, the results of this ongoing experiment are in: UCI is investment, we may not be able to predict the future – ranked in the top 10 of public universities in the country and but we can be prepared to shape it. the BLIMC has experienced extraordinary growth and impact. Looking Forward. When our building opened in 1986, it housed one professor (Dr. Berns) and a group of about 10 students and staff. Today, the BLIMC has 21 faculty and approximately 200 people from more than 10 departments in the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Physical Sciences Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D. and Biological Sciences. Although biophotonics medical Director, Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic 1 BLIMC CELEBRATES 30 YEARS he Beckman Laser Institute first interdisciplinary medical laser Sciences, Biological Sciences, and and Medical Clinic (BLIMC) institutes in the world. Together, Medicine, in collaboration with UCI held its 30th anniversary, Drs. Berns and Beckman raised funds Applied Innovation. Over the next five T “Multiple Reflections,” on to build the original building, which years, COSI will hire at least five new February 9, 2017. The event celebrated opened in 1986. faculty and create a dedicated space the Institute’s past achievements, for academic/industry collaboration Over the past 30 years, the BLIMC has present accomplishments and future and engagement. The first COSI hire is played a key role in helping drive the discoveries. Dr. Chris Barty, professor of Physics growth of optics and photonics in and Astronomy, who is a pioneer in In 1982, Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, biology and medicine. Director Dr. advanced laser light source through the Arnold and Mabel Bruce Tromberg summarized the technologies. Barty, who joined UCI Beckman Foundation, provided the history of this expansion that has and the BLIMC on July 1, 2017 has original financial gift to create the helped fuel the development of already launched Lumitron Technology BLIMC as an interdisciplinary center at “Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics,” Inc., a new venture that will UCI for the development and a new discipline that is now well- commercialize his discoveries. application of optical technologies in represented in academic and industry biology and medicine. He liked to programs around the world. However, According to Provost Lavernia, “COSI- donate money in the form of matching according to Tromberg, we are only generated photonics expertise will grants, challenging recipients to be as scratching the surface. Innovations in benefit UCI programs, such as the invested as he was in the venture. At optics and photonics technologies Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer the celebration, BLIMC co-founder combined with health care economic Center, the Institute for Clinical and Dr. Michael Berns recounted his pressures are creating important new Translational Science, the Edwards experiences with Dr. Beckman and opportunities that will allow us to Lifesciences Center for Advanced their shared vision to create one of the “embark on a path forward over the Cardiovascular Technology, as well as next 30 years that is as bold and further innovation and visionary as the founding of the commercialization in cardiology, Institute.” neurology, cancer, and sports medicine. It will draw people who are Introducing COSI developing revolutionary new light UCI Provost and Executive Vice sources and imaging technologies, Chancellor Dr. Enrique Lavernia innovators who are creating new announced the “Convergence Optical methods and technologies to find and Sciences Initiative (COSI),” an $8 cure disease, and entrepreneurs who million UCI investment in optics and will accelerate the translation and photonics. “Our goal is to create impact of our work via exciting new opportunities with a commercialization. We believe this is a broader impact on scientific discovery powerful strategic approach for UCI to and human health,” said Lavernia. build new human and intellectual COSI will partner BLIMC with the capital that will substantially strengthen schools of Engineering, Physical our region.” 2 Could biophotonics prevent disease? “The ability to fashion ways to better diagnose and treat diseases that have gone on without adequate interventional options is an area where I think the intersection between photonics and medicine is going to have an impact,” said vice chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the UCI Health System, Dr.
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