SEMINAR: A microscope-in-a-needle: Optical coherence tomography and fluorescence needle probs

After completing his PhD at the University of Western Australia, A/Prof. McLaughlin was employed for three years at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher. He then left academia for industry, working in a spin-off company from the University of Oxford, and eventually being appointed as Product Manager at Siemens Medical Solutions. He was responsible for the development of three commercial medical products. He returned to Australia in 2007 and took a position as Associate Professor at UWA. He has published 2 book chapters, 59 scientific journal papers and 7 patents, and been awarded over $3.5M in research funding. He has over 1500 citations in Google Scholar. In 2011, he received the National Breast Cancer Foundation Patron's Award for 'Innovation and Vision in Research', and was awarded a fellowship from Cancer Council WA. In 2014, he won the SPIE Start-up Challenge business pitch competition in San Francisco. He led the team named WA Innovator of the Year, and who were subsequently awarded the UWA Vice-Chancellor's Mid-career Researcher Award.

His work has focused on the development of optical needle probes for cancer, combining both optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fluorescence into a miniaturized imaging probe; and on the use of OCT to assess microvasculature.