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Irene Georgakoudi is a Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, and Co-Director of the Translational Engineering in Cancer Research Program at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. Her research focuses on developing label-free optical technologies for precision disease detection and therapy. She holds a BA in Physics from Dartmouth (1993), an MSc and PhD in Biophysics from the University of Rochester (1996, 1999). Prior roles include professorships at Tufts University and positions at MIT and Harvard Medical School.
Her research interests include label-free high-resolution tissue imaging, non-linear microscopy, metabolic imaging, and applications in cancer, osteoarthritis, and neurodegenerative diseases. She has pioneered methods such as polarization-enhanced laparoscopy for cancer detection and deep learning-driven flow cytometry for tumor cell monitoring.
- Scientific Awards: NSF Career Award, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award, American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award
- Labs/Teams: Leads the Georgakoudi Lab, focusing on translational optical technologies and multi-scale imaging of extracellular matrices.
- Grants & Collaborations: Active in NIH-funded projects and collaborations across biomedical engineering, oncology, and neurology.
Her work bridges fundamental science and clinical translation, with patents in biomedical imaging and contributions to courses like ENGG 199.18: Biophotonics.
