Innovations in Disease Management

Tomorrow from 10:30 am–12:10 pm, an oral session titled, “Illuminating Health: Optical Innovations in Disease Management,” will take place in Meeting Room #1 in the Northern Kentucky Convention Center, in Covington, Kentucky (1).

Fay Nicolson, who is a Research Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, is chairing this oral symposium. Nicolson earned a Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before joining Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School as a Research Fellow (2). In 2024, Nicolson established an independent laboratory in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber, focusing on molecular imaging technologies and radiotheranostic agents for cancer detection and treatment (2).

Nicolson has five speakers lined up for this oral symposium. First, Samuel B. Mabbott of Texas A&M University will deliver a talk titled, “Robosynthesis: Automated, High-Precision Fabrication of SERRS Nanotags.” Following Mabbott will be a talk from Nick Stone of Exeter University. Stone’s talk is titled, “Biomedical Raman Spectroscopy and Raman Nanotheranostics – Where is the Added Value?” (1). Then, Katherine JI Ember from Polytechnique Montreal will deliver a talk titled, “From Covid-19 to Cancer: Low-cost Raman Spectroscopy for Rapid Biofluid Analysis in Liquid Droplets” (1). The fourth talk in this symposium will be given by Girish Hiremath from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who will discuss the impact of eosinophilic esophagitis on the esophageal biochemical microenvironment, highlighting how Raman spectroscopy can be used in this area effectively. And finally, Dhulakshi Karuna Hewage of Southern Illinois University will conclude the session with a talk titled, “Understanding the p53-MDM2 Binding/Unbinding Mechanism via Molecular Dynamics and Free Energy Calculations” (1),

In this brief interview clip, Nicolson sat down with Spectroscopy to provide a brief overview of tomorrow’s session and why attendees should check it out.

This interview clip is part of our interview with Nicolson. To stay up to date with the latest coverage of the 2025 SciX Conference, click here.

References

1. SciX Conference, Online Program – Tuesday October 7. SciX Conference. Available at: https://scixconference.org/2025-final-program (accessed 2025-10-06).
2. SciX Conference, From Postdoc to PI: Navigating the Early Stages of an Academic Career. SciX Conference. Available at: https://scixconference.org/2025-final-program (accessed 2025-10-06)