Dr. Michael R Hamblin
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Harvard Medical University
USA
Biography
Dr. Michael R Hamblin is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and is a member of the affiliated faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. He was trained as a synthetic organic chemist and received his Ph.D. from Trent University in England. He directs a laboratory of around a dozen post-doctoral fellows, visiting scientists and graduate students
He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, over 150 conference proceedings, book chapters, and International abstracts and holds 8 patents. He is Associate Editor for 7 journals, on the editorial board of a further 20 journals and serves on NIH Study Sections. For the past 10 years, Dr. Hamblin has chaired an annual conference at SPIE Photonics West entitled "Mechanisms for low-level light therapy" and he has edited the 10 proceedings volumes together with four other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. In 2011 Dr. Hamblin was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE. He is a Visiting Professor at universities in China, South Africa, and Northern Ireland.
Research Interest
His research interests lie in the areas of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for infections, cancer, and stimulation of the immune system, and in low-level light therapy (LLLT) for wound healing, arthritis, traumatic brain injury, neurodegenerative diseases, and psychiatric disorders.
