Hariharan Subramanian received the Student Presentation Award from Frontiers in Optics - 2007, 91st 'Optical Society of America' Annual meeting, San Jose, CA, September 16-20, 2007

Alexander Heifetz has been selected for 2007 American Cancer Society - Canary Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007).

Dr. Vadim Backman is on Chicago Tribune (2006).

Vadim Backman is double promoted from Assistant Professor to Full Professor with tenure (2006).

Dr. Backman is selected for the Faculty Honor Roll, presented by the Northwestern University Associated Student Government (2005).

Dr. Backman is awarded the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Award in Biomedical Engineering (2005).

Yang Liu received the Engineering Conference International student travel award for the conference of Advances in Optics for Biotechnology, Medicine and Surgery, Copper Mountain, July 24-28, 2005

Young Kim received a postdoctoral fellowship from Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, 2004-2005

Dr. Backman is selected as one of the top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT's Technology Review Magazine, 2004

Yang Liu, BMES student, received travel grant at BMES Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 2004

Dr. Backman is awarded NSF CAREER Award, 2003

Yang Liu received New Focus Inc. Student Travel Grant for the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics, Baltimore, Maryland, June, 2003

Yang Liu received Student Travel Grant from U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research/Whitaker Foundation for American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Twenty-Third Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April, 2003

Young Kim received Student Travel Grant from U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research/Whitaker Foundation for American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Twenty-Third Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, April, 2003

Young Kim received Student Travel Grant from Northwestern University, June, 2003

Young Kim is awarded a Fellowship from the Steve Kang's Young Scholars Foundation, 2002-2003

Dr. Backman received the General Motors Cancer Research Scholar Award, 2002

Dr. Backman received the NSF Young Investigator Best Paper Award in New Techniques in Biomedical Optics and Medical Imaging, 2002

Dr. Backman received the Phi Beta Psi Cancer Research Award, 2002