Collaborators

Dr. Alwayn is currently Professor and Director, Department of Transplant Surgery, LUMC Transplant Center, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, The Netherlands; Past Surgical Lead of the Atlantic Multi-Organ Transplant Program at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the inaugural QEII Foundation Endowed Chair in Transplantation Research. He is a past Associate Professor of Surgery, Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology at Dalhousie University and maintains a busy clinical practice in Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery. Ian was actively involved in advancing transplantation in Canada as vice-president of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, past-president of the Canadian Liver Transplant Network, and a member of the Organ Donation and Transplantation Expert Advisory Committee of Canadian Blood Services. He runs a basic science laboratory, has over 65 peer reviewed manuscripts, predominantly related to the field of transplantation.

Together with Dr. Alwayn, we are developing a medical diagnostic tool for liver transplantation applications.

Dr. Zeng is a distinguished scientist with the Imaging Unit, Integrative Oncology Department, British Columbia Cancer Agency and a professor of Dermatology, Pathology, and Physics at the University of British Columbia. For over 30 years, Dr. Zeng’s research has been focused on the optical properties of biological tissues and light-tissue interaction, as well as their applications in medical diagnosis and therapy. He has published over 80 refereed journal papers, 1 book, 18 book chapters, and has 28 granted patents. Three medical devices derived from these patents, have passed regulatory approvals, and are currently in clinical uses around the world. The latest device, Verisante Aura™ using Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive skin cancer detection, was awarded the Prism Award in the Life Sciences and Biophotonics category in February, 2013 by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He was co-founder for two spring-off companies from BCCA and has collaborated and consulted for a couple of other companies working on optical diagnostic devices. He collaborates broadly nationally and internationally including with the Dalhousie University group, Prof. Kevin Hewitt and Prof. Ian Alwayn, for liver fat detection, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Prof. Stephen Sonis, for oral cancer detection, and the Fujian Normal University, China Prof. Rong Chen for nasopharyngeal cancer detection.