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Updates from the lab.

Dec 04, 2025

12/2025- New paper published on Biomedical Optics Express titled 'Label-free viability assessment of ex vivo mouse kidneys for transplant applications using dynamic optical coherence tomography', Congratulations Ke and all!!
Dec 02, 2025

12/2025-Lucas won the prestigious American Liver Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Award, Congratulations!!
Nov 06, 2025

11/2025-Junyuan and Ronghao won the GCoE Graduate Student Travel Award, Congratulations!!
Oct 24, 2025

10/2025- Krish gave two oral presentation in the 2025 BMES Annual Meeting, Congratulations!!
Oct 24, 2025

10/2025- Lucas, Qinghao, Junyuan, Ronghao, Bornface, and Krish presented in the 2025 G. Rainey Williams Research Symposium, Congratulations!!
Oct 24, 2025

10/2025-Lucas received 3rd place for Oral Presentation, and Bornface earned 3rd place for Poster Presentation at the 2025 G. Rainey Williams Research Symposium, Congratulations!!
Sep 29, 2025

9/2025- Our paper for evaluation of radio frequency ablation has been highlighted as an Editor's Pick, Congratulations Ebby and all!!
Sep 13, 2025

9/2025- New paper published on Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine titled 'Integration of nested cross-validation, automated hyperparameter optimization, high-performance computing to reduce and quantify the variance of test performance estimation of deep learning models', Congratulations Paul and all!!
Sep 10, 2025

9/2025- New paper published on Journal of Biophotonics titled 'Evaluating the Efficacy of Mebendazole Repurposing for Ovarian Cancer Therapy Using Optical Coherence Tomography', Congratulations Rajani, Qinghao and Bornface!!
Sep 10, 2025

9/2025- New paper published on IEEE Access titled 'Octascope: A Lightweight Pre-Trained Model for Optical Coherence Tomography', Congratulations Haoyang and Chen!!
Sep 10, 2025

9/2025- New paper published on Biomedical Optics Express titled 'Evaluation of radio frequency ablation in human left atrial tissues for atrial fibrillation using optical coherence tomography', Congratulations Ebby and all!!
Aug 08, 2025

8/2025- New paper published on IEEE Access titled 'Octascope: a lightweight pre-trained model for optical coherence tomography', Congratulations Haoyang and Chen !!
Jul 25, 2025

7/2025- New paper published on Journal of Biophotonics titled 'Deep Learning for Autonomous Surgical Guidance Using 3-Dimensional Images From Forward-Viewing Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography', Congratulations Sinaro and Chen! !
May 21, 2025

05/2025-- Qinghao received the DISC Graduate Student Seed Funding, Congratulations!
May 21, 2025

05/2025-- Ke received the DISC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Congratulations!
May 06, 2025

05/2025–Qinghao was awarded the 2025-2026 Stephenson Cancer Center Trainee Research Award, Congratulations!
Apr 16, 2025

04/2025-- Krish received the Provost’s 2025 Summer UReCA Fellowship, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2025

3/25--Lucas won the 2023-2024 Provost's Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2025

3/25--The Tanglab members won several awards, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2025

03/2025-- Chen received the DISC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2025

3/2025- Thanks OU OVPRP for supporting our research through the Strategic Equipment Investment Program!
Apr 05, 2025

03/2025-- Tanglab received non-dilutive fund to accelerate the commercialization of or renal biopsy, Congratulations!
Jan 30, 2025

1/2025- Yan Cui joins our lab as a PhD student, welcome aboard!!
Jan 30, 2025

01/2025-- Chen receives 2-year Fellowship from the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Congratulations!
Dec 31, 2024

12/24--Warid won the Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award, Congratulations!
Dec 31, 2024

12/2024- Tri Vu and Ke Zhang join our lab as Postdoctoral Associates, welcome aboard!!
Nov 13, 2024

11/24–Warid successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. Congratulations, Dr. Islam!
Oct 11, 2024

10/2024- Junyuan Liu and Ronghao Liu join our lab as PhD students, welcome aboard!!
Sep 29, 2024

09/2024- Chen Wang and Lucas presented their posters at the SPIE Translational Biophotonics and Additive Manufacturing 2024, Congratulations!
Sep 02, 2024

09/2024-- Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on Communications Engineering reporting robotic OCT for large area kidney imaging, Congratulations!
Aug 03, 2024

8/2024- New paper published on Communications Engineering for automatic renal carcinoma biopsy guidance using forward-viewing endoscopic optical coherence tomography and deep learning, Congratulations Chen, Haoyang and Qinghao! !
Jul 11, 2024

07/2024-- Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on Cell Cycle reporting on the synthesis and validation of a 37 amino acid RSPO1-mimetic peptide for interoperative imaging of colorectal cancer peritoneal metastatic disease, Congratulations!
Jul 01, 2024

07/2024-- Excited to announce Dr. Tang's promotion to Associate Professor today! Thanks to all collaborators and lab members for your hard work!
Jun 22, 2024

06/2024-- Ebby won the 2024-2025 University of Oklahoma Scholarship, Congratulations!
Jun 01, 2024

06/2024-- Lucas (Feng Yan) and Chen Wang were selected for the Accelerating Research Translation (ART) Academy, Congratulations!
Jun 01, 2024

06/2024—The lab has received a translational grant from the Intensifying Translation of Research in Oklahoma (InTRO) Translational Research Project for liver transplant evaluation. Thanks NSF OU Accelerating Research Translation (ART) for supporting our research!
May 19, 2024

05/2024-- Lucas (Feng Yan) and Chen Wang won the FY24 Stephenson Cancer Center Trainee Research Award , Congratulations!
May 19, 2024

05/2024–Lucas was awarded the 2023-2024 Overall Outstanding Graduate Student from OU Graduate Student Senate, congratulations!
May 03, 2024

5/2024- Lab photo for 2024 Spring!!
May 03, 2024

5/2024- New paper to predict the survival of gastric cancer patients using a neoteric feature extraction technique, Congratulations Warid!
Apr 25, 2024

04/24--Chen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! Thank you to the Ph.D. committee members, Drs. Wei Chen, Song Fang, and Javier A. Jo, and all the lab members!
Apr 24, 2024

04/24--Lucas and Bornface present at the BME 1421 Research & Design Showcase, good job!
Apr 17, 2024

04/24--Lucas successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. Congratulations, Dr. Yan! Thank you to the Ph.D. committee members, Drs. Wei Chen, Hong Liu, and Binbin Weng, and all the lab members!
Apr 11, 2024

04/24--Lucas and Chen won the Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award, Congratulations!
Apr 08, 2024

04/24--Lucas won the 2023-2024 SBME Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2024

04/2024– Glad to be part of the "2024 OMS Kids Night with Microscopes" event and introduce the kids to 3D imaging!
Mar 19, 2024

3/2024- Avery representing OU presented the epidural project at the 2024 Research Day at the Capitol, congratulations!
Mar 04, 2024

1/2024- New paper for OCT multicellular tumor spheroid category recognition and drug screening classification via multi-spatial-superficial-parameter and machine learning, Congratulations Lucas and Bornface!
Feb 26, 2024

02/2024- Chen Wang, Qinghao, and Lucas presented their posters at the #BMES2024, Congratulations!
Jan 16, 2024

1/2024- Dr. Tang was recognized and invested with Endowed Stephenson Professorship, congratulations!
Jan 05, 2024

1/2024- New paper for quantification of aging-associated cerebral microvasculature by optical coherence tomography and two-photon microscopy, Congratulations Lucas and Zaid!
Dec 17, 2023

12/2023- Zaid and Dr. Tang presented their research at the sixth annual 2023 END2CANCER: Emerging Nanotechnology and Drug Delivery Applications for Cancer conference, Congratulations!
Dec 17, 2023

12/2023- Dr. Tang presented lab recent research titled 'Enhancing Biomedical Research Using Novel Optical Imaging Technologies and Deep Learning' at the 12th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, Congratulations!
Dec 17, 2023

12/2023—The lab has received a translational grant from the Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Consortium (MBArC) for biopsy guidance. Thanks NIH/MBArC for supporting our research!
Nov 11, 2023

10/2023- Thanks OU OVPRP for supporting our research through the Strategic Equipment Investment Program!
Oct 23, 2023

10/2023- Chen Wang, Zaid, and Lucas presented their research at the #BMES2023, Congratulations!
Oct 23, 2023

10/2023- New paper using PS-OCT to provide imaging guidance for the surgical resection of renal tumors , Congratulations Lucas!
Oct 23, 2023

10/2023- New paper using PS-OCT endoscope with deep learning for enhancing epidural needle guidance, Congratulations Chen and Yunlong!
Oct 23, 2023

10/2023- Avery won the 2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) scholarship, Congratulations!
Sep 07, 2023

9/2023- Thanks Sooner Magazine for highlighting our research!
Jun 07, 2023

06/2023-- Chen Wang won the prestigious 2023 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, Congratulations!
Jun 05, 2023

06/2023-- Chen and Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on Journal of Biophotonics introducing polarization coherency matrix tomography (PCMT), Congratulations!
May 28, 2023

05/2023-- Lucas and Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on Aging Cell studying chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment , Congratulations!
May 18, 2023

05/2023-- Dr. Tang Discusses Optical Imaging Innovations For National Cancer Research Month
May 13, 2023

05/2023-- Lucas, Ebby, and Chen won the 2023-2024 Gallogly College of Engineering Scholarship, Congratulations!
May 08, 2023

05/2023–Lucas won the Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory (SRNML) voucher award, congratulations!
Apr 21, 2023

04/2023–Lucas was awarded the 2022-2023 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant from OU Graduate Student Senate, congratulations!
Apr 06, 2023

04/23--Chen and Lucas won the 2022-2023 SBME Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Congratulations!
Apr 06, 2023

04/2023-- Lucas and Chen won the prestigious 2023-2024 Betsy Douglass and Millar B. White Jr. Endowed Scholarship, Congratulations!
Mar 22, 2023

03/2023-- Chen Wang won the prestigious 2023-2024 Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Congratulations!
Mar 13, 2023

3/2023- Thanks for The Oklahoman for reporting our research!
Mar 03, 2023

03/2023---The lab has received a 3-year grant from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) Health Research Program to develop a novel imaging platform for Percutaneous Nephrostomy guidance. Thanks OCAST for supporting our research!
Feb 23, 2023

2/2023- Thanks for OVPRP and media reporting our research!
Jan 20, 2023

1/2023- New paper using OCT and tumor spheroids to identify candidates for drug repurposing in ovarian cancer, Congratulations Lucas and Ji-Hee Ha!
Jan 08, 2023

01/2023- Ebenezer Raj SM join our lab as a PhD student, welcome aboard!!
Jan 05, 2023

12/2022- NSF CAREER award! Thank you National Science Foundation (NSF) for supporting our research! Congratulations!
Dec 04, 2022

12/2022- Zaid and Andy presented their posters at the #End2Cancer meeting, Congratulations!
Nov 21, 2022

11/2022- Thanks for OVPRP and media reporting our research!
Nov 21, 2022

11/2022- Great outreach experience at Caddo Kiowa Technology Center for Native American students. Bioimaging was introduced to Pre-engineering and biomedical sciences students.
Oct 20, 2022

10/2022- Chen Wang and Lucas presented their posters at the #BMES2022, Congratulations!
Oct 05, 2022

09/2022- Qinghao Zhang and Xuchen Zhu join our lab as a PhD student, welcome aboard!!
Sep 15, 2022

09/2022-A 4-Year $2.5M NIH R01 project was awarded. Congratulations!
May 31, 2022

06/2022- New paper for Epidural needle guidance using OCT endoscope and convolutional neural networks published on Scientific Reports, Congratulations Chen, Paul, and Justin!
May 18, 2022

10/2022-- Avery and Sam won the 2022 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) scholarship, Congratulations!
May 12, 2022

05/2022-- Chen Wang and Lucas won the 2022-2023 Gallogly College of Engineering Scholarship , Congratulations!
May 02, 2022

05/2022-- Chen Wang won the FY22 Stephenson Cancer Center Trainee Research Award , Congratulations!
Apr 25, 2022

04/2022– Our Veress needle paper has been featured on Journal Cover! Nice work, Chen and Justin!
Apr 20, 2022

04/2022– Chen Wang was awarded the 2021-2022 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant from OU Graduate Student Senate, congratulations!
Apr 12, 2022

04/2022– Glad to be part of the the "Kids with Microscopes" event and introduce the kids to 3D imaging!
Apr 08, 2022

04/2022– New grant awarded from NSF to develop a novel and cost-efficient mesoscopic imaging technique for functional brain imaging in living mice in collaboration with Cornell University, Congratulations!
Mar 25, 2022

03/2022- Fund from NIH COBRE award (PI: Dr. Bin Zheng) of the new "Oklahoma Center of Medical Imaging for Translational Cancer Research", congratulations!!
Mar 25, 2022

03/2022-- Dr. Tang delivered a talk at 2022 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Novel optical imaging methods for photoimmunotherapy monitoring", Congratulations!
Mar 25, 2022

03/2022– Lucas delivered a talk at 2022 SPIE Photonics West entitled “In Vivo longitudinal monitoring of structure, texture and angiogenesis of photothermal-therapy for melanoma and pancreatic tumor using optical coherence tomography”, Congratulations!
Mar 25, 2022

03/2022– Lucas presented a poster at 2022 SPIE Photonics West entitled “Swept-source optical coherence tomography for studying ocular structural thickness variations with myopia and vision-correction in chick in vivo”, Congratulations!
Feb 28, 2022

02/2022-- Lucas (Feng Yan) was awarded the Robberson Travel Grant for attending the 2022 SPIE Photonic West, Congratulations!!
Feb 28, 2022

02/2022-- Chen was awarded the IBEST Travel Grant for attending the 2022 SPIE Photonic West, Congratulations!!
Feb 11, 2022

02/2022- New paper for Veress needle guidance using OCT endoscope and convolutional neural networks published on Journal of Biophotonics, Congratulations Chen and Justin!
Jan 14, 2022

01/2022-- Pilot grant from the Oklahoma Clinical and Translational Science Institute (OCTSI) received, congratulations!!
Dec 12, 2021

12/2021-- Pilot grant from American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) at the Stephenson Cancer Center received, congratulations!!
Oct 13, 2021

10/2021-Congratulations to Avery and Sam for winning the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program scholarship!!
Oct 13, 2021

10/2021- New paper for studying myopia in chicks in vivo using OCT published on Biomedical Optics Express, Congratulations !
Oct 13, 2021

10/2021- Yuyang Yan joins our lab as a PhD student, welcome aboard!!
Sep 23, 2021

09/2021-- Lucas (Feng Yan) was awarded the Trainee Research Conference and Workshop Award from the Stephenson Cancer Center, Congratulations!!
Jul 31, 2021

07/2021-Congratulations to Anthony and Sam for winning the University Startup Innovation Fund!!
Jun 23, 2021

06/2021--Glad to share Bioimaging and Bioelectricity with high school students on Biomedical Engineering Day!!
May 13, 2021

05/2021- New paper for imaging ovarian cancer tumor spheroids using OCT published on Biomedical Optics Express, Congratulations Lucas, Gokhan and Trisha!
May 04, 2021

05/2021-- Lucas (Feng Yan) won the FY21 Stephenson Cancer Center Trainee Research Award , Congratulations!
Apr 27, 2021

04/2021---Dr. Tang was named the recipient of the FY21 Faculty Investment Program (FIP) from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) in OU for developing novel optical device for imaging diabetic retinopathy. Thanks so much to OU OVPRP for supporting our research!
Apr 22, 2021

04/21--Chen won the 2021 SBME Outstanding Graduate Student Research Paper Award, Congratulations!
Apr 05, 2021

04/2021-- Our recent paper on American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology was highlighted in the American Physiological Society’s APSselect program, Congratulations!!
Mar 29, 2021

03/2021- New paper for percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) guidance using OCT endoscope published on Biomedical Optics Express, Congratulations Chen and Paul!
Mar 22, 2021

03/2021-- One-year seed grant from GEROONCOLOGY research program (GORP) of the NCI Designated Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC) received, congratulations!!
Mar 15, 2021

03/2021-- Chen presented a poster at 2021 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Laparoscopic optical coherence tomography system for 3D bladder tumor detection", Congratulations!
Mar 15, 2021

03/2021-- Lucas presented a poster at 2021 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Three-dimensional imaging of bladder cancer using optical coherence tomography and fluorescence laminar optical tomography", Congratulations!
Mar 15, 2021

03/2021-- Lucas delivered a talk at 2021 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Characterization and quantification of necrotic regions and morphology in multicellular tumor spheroids using optical coherence tomography", Congratulations!
Mar 15, 2021

03/2021-- Chen delivered a talk at 2021 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Forward optical coherence tomography endoscope for percutaneous nephrostomy guidance", Congratulations!
Mar 15, 2021

03/2021-- Dr. Tang delivered a talk at 2021 SPIE Photonics West entitled "Mesoscopic imaging of functional connectivity in mouse cortex", Congratulations!
Mar 02, 2021

03/2021- New paper evaluating cancer therapy using SV-OCT published on Biomedical Optics Express, Congratulations!
Feb 10, 2021

02/2021-- Lucas (Feng Yan) and Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on Scientific Reports, Congratulations!!
Feb 10, 2021

02/2021-- Lucas (Feng Yan) presented a poster on 2021 Annual Cancer Research Symposium, Congratulations!!
Feb 10, 2021

02/2021-- Lucas (Feng Yan) and Dr. Tang co-authored a paper on American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Congratulations!!
Feb 05, 2021

02/2021--Our article on brain imaging is currently listed as the “Most Viewed” from Neurophotonics – congratulations!
Dec 02, 2020

12/2020-- Lucas (Feng Yan), Chen Wang, and Dr. Tang published a paper on Neurophotonics, Congratulations!!
Dec 02, 2020

12/2020-- Trisha Valerio has successfully defended her Master degree, well done and Congratulations!
Nov 17, 2020

11/2020-- Lucas (Feng Yan) and Chen Wang were awarded the Trainee Research Conference and Workshop Award from the Stephenson Cancer Center, Congratulations!!
Sep 09, 2020

09/2020---Dr. Tang co-authored a book chapter on Functional Brain Mapping!
May 23, 2020

05/2020---Dr. Tang was named the recipient of the FY20 Faculty Investment Program (FIP) from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) in OU for developing novel optical device for bladder cancer detection. Thanks so much to OU OVPRP for supporting our research!
Mar 11, 2020

03/2020----Our lab introduces OCT to the kids at the '2020 Kids Night with Microscopes'. Fun Event!!
Mar 05, 2020

03/2020---Dr. Tang was named the recipient of the Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) in OU for developing novel optical device for cancer therapy monitoring. Thanks so much to OU OVPRP for supporting our research!
Feb 12, 2020

02/2020---Congratulations to Feng winning the second place on the 2020 Annual Cancer Research Symposium poster competition!
Dec 10, 2019

12/2019---Congratulations to Shulian for the paper published in Journal of Biophotonics!
Oct 10, 2019

10/08/19---Dr. Tang presents a talk on “Transitioning from Post-Doc to Faculty” at Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience Professional Skills Workshop.
Sep 28, 2019

09/2019-- Nu Bao Tran Ton joined our lab through the Honors Research Assistant Program, Welcome Sam!
Sep 27, 2019

08/2019-Feng Yan and Chen Wang join our lab as PhD students. Welcome Aboard!
Jul 01, 2019

06/2019---The lab has received a 3-year grant from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) Health Research Program to develop multi-contrast optical coherence tomography needle probe for epidural anesthesia guidance. Thanks so much to the OCAST for supporting our research!
Apr 22, 2019

04/19/2019----Dr. Tang served as volunteer for the '2019 Neuroscientist for a day', Fun Event!!
Mar 13, 2019

03/13/2019---Congratulations to Brandon for the paper published in Biomedical Optics Express!
Mar 10, 2019

03/09/19---Dr. Tang presents a talk on fluorescent laminar optical tomography on the 2019 Oklahoma Microscopy Society (OMS) Spring Workshop.
Mar 10, 2019

03/09/2019---Dr. Tang was named the recipient of the Junior Faculty Fellowship from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) in OU for bladder cancer research. Thanks so much to OU OVPR for supporting our research!
Mar 02, 2019

Dr. Tang served as judge for the 2019 Oklahoma Brain Bee competition for high school students, Fun Event!!
Mar 02, 2019

03/01/2019---Dr. Tang presented at the AM/ROCA Seminar Series in Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) titled 'Development and Applications of Novel Optical Imaging Technologies'.
Feb 08, 2019

Dr. Tang presented Neuromunch seminar titled 'Novel Optical Methods for Brain Functional Imaging' on Feb 8th
Feb 02, 2019

Dr. Tang attended the 2019 Annual Cancer Research Symposium in OKC and gave a presentation titled 'Novel Optical Imaging Technologies for Cancer Therapy Monitoring'
Jan 30, 2019

Dr. Tang was invited by Light Microscope Interest Group (LMIG) to presented ‘Novel Technologies and Applications for Fluorescent Laminar Optical Tomography ’ in National Institute of Health (NIH) on December 11, 2018.
Jan 30, 2019

Dr. Tang has been approved to become a faculty member in Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience (OCNS), CONGRATULATIONS!
Oct 23, 2018

The lab has received a 1.5-year grant from the Prevent Cancer Foundation (PCF) to develop multi-modal endoscopic optical system for early cancer detection. Thanks so much to the PCF for supporting our research!
Sep 16, 2018

Trisha I. Valerio joins the lab for the BS/MS accelerated program, welcome!
Aug 16, 2018

Biophotonic Imaging Laboratory in OU opens in August 2018!

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