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CCNY's Robert Alfano wins first biomedical optics award

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, January 29th, 2012

2012 JAN 29 -- A scientific innovator from The City College of New York (CCNY) whose research unites the divergent fields of medicine, biology and high-speed laser physics will be honored this month for his pioneering work in biomedical optics by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

SPIE will present Dr. Robert Alfano, CUNY Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at CCNY, with the first annual Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award January 23 at the SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco.

The Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award "honors contributions to optical methods and devices that have...

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