Raff Adam B, Seiler Theo G, Apiou-Sbirlea Gabriela
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute and Harvard Medical School, 40 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse, CH-3010, Bern, Switzerland.
Biomed Opt Express. 2017 Nov 3;8(12):5368-5373. doi: 10.1364/BOE.8.005368. eCollection 2017 Dec 1.
The 'Bridging medicine and biomedical technology' special all-congress session took place for the first time at the OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in Life Sciences in 2017 (http://www.osa.org/enus/meetings/osa_meetings/optics_in_the_life_sciences/bridging_medicine_and_biomedical_technology_specia/). The purpose was to identify key challenges the biomedical scientists in academia have to overcome to translate their discoveries into clinical practice through robust collaborations with industry and discuss best practices to facilitate and accelerate the process. Our paper is intended to complement the session by providing a deeper insight into the concept behind the structure and the content we developed.
