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Microscopes inside the body.

We create miniaturized yet powerful diagnostic technologies for rapidly visualizing tissue microstructure and function over entire organ surfaces.

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2023
September
Welcome Sze Yi!

August
Welcome Joey, and final year project students Joshua and Rachel! Rachel is back after her internship with us last year.

July
Welcome Safwan, Gaurav, Paulene!

June
Our lab has moved to the A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB). Kaicheng is also jointly appointed with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME). Looking forward to exciting collaborations!

May
Welcome Zhe Li and Julian!

March
Welcome Li Qin, Nazihah and Stefanie!

February
Rachel’s preprint is posted! “Multi-beam miniaturized volumetric scanning microscopy with a single 1-dimensional actuation”

We got a Manufacturing, Trade and Connectivity Individual Research Grant (MTC IRG)! Many thanks to our grant co-investigator Wonkeun at NTU. The project will start in April and run for 3 years.

January
We presented at the Photonics West conference in San Francisco! Check out our abstracts, all first-authored by our research officers:
Alex: “Fibre optic illuminated fluorescence microscopy with ultraviolet surface excitation”
Joel: “Conditional normalizing flow for variational single image super-resolution on microscopy images”
Rachel: “Piezoelectric bender actuator scanning endomicroscope”

2022
December
Our lab’s first preprint “Deep ultraviolet-excited fluorescence histology with fibre optic illumination for tissue microtopography and quantitative mapping” is posted! Congrats to Alex, Ko Hui and the team.

Reimagining the endoscope

From ultracompact laser scanners to point of care optical systems, we strive for instant diagnosis at the cellular level, by the patient bedside, in the operating room.

Microscopic mapping of entire organs

Above: pre-cancerous esophagus of a living patient, ‘flattened’ for 3-D viewing from tissue surface to deeper depths. 4 x 24 cm scan area

Bridging surgery and pathology

Hardware and analytics for assessing tissue before, and immediately after excision to enable real-time surgical guidance and margin evaluation.

Our team

Skilled in electrical, mechanical, optical engineering and artificial intelligence. Focused on challenges in human health and disease.

The PI. (photo credit: spouse)
Liang Research Group

Principal Investigator: Kaicheng Liang

Email: liang_kaicheng at imcb dot a-star dot edu dot sg (was previously ‘ibb’)

Address: Nanos level 7, Biopolis, Singapore