The Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) is part of the Department of Neonatology at the University Hospital Zurich and University of Zurich. It is one of the leading laboratories in the field of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and near-infrared optical tomography (NIROT). We were among the first groups to adopt NIRS in the field of neonatology. BORL develops technology, algorithms, software to drive the instrumentation and data analysis methods. BORL also applies these medical devices in preclinical and clinical studies. The motivation is to develop these methods and instrumentation for the benefit of the patients.

BORL consists of four research groups:

1. Neurophotonics and Biosignal Processing Research Group headed by PD Dr. Felix Scholkman: The focus of this work are cutting edge biomedical signal analysis and PD Dr. Scholkmann is one of the internationally top ten scientists in functional NIRS.
2. Advanced Biophotonics Research Group headed by Dr. Alexander Kalyanov with expertise in light tissue interaction, detection of light and imaging (NIROT) of preterm infants.
3. Computational Optical Imaging Research Group headed by Dr. Jingjing Jiang for oxygenation determination and translational development of imaging tools such as NIROT.
4. Non-invasive Neonatal Biomarker Monitoring Research Group headed by Dr. Aldo Di Costanzo Mata which is developing a novel principle to non-invasively measure blood constituents such as glucose in preterm infants.

Student projects available in BORL! If our research interests you, please consider joining us. More