Prof. Boppart heads the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory at the Beckman Institute and is a full-time faculty member in the Bioimaging Science and Technology group. His home departments are Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, with affiliations with the Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine, the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and the Institute for Genomic Biology. Prof. Boppart received his PhD in Electrical and Medical Engineering from MIT in 1998 and his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2000. Currently he combines his optical imaging and biophotonics research and teaching with clinical research in novel medical technologies.
Honors: Visiting Professorship, Raine Medical Research Foundation, Australia (2008); Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising (2006, 2007); IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award (2005); College of Engineering Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence (2005, 2003); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2004); Technology Review Magazine's Top 100 Young Innovator in the World (2002); Xerox Faculty Award for Outstanding Research (2002); Whitaker Foundation Fellow (2001); Resident Physician Research Award, College of Medicine, UIUC (2001); Young Faculty Award, American Association of Anatomists (2001).