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Shruti Singh Kakan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Ophthalmology
BioI am a Biomedical Scientist with a Ph.D. in Translational Sciences. I worked with Non-Obese Diabetic (NOD) and NOD derived mice models of autoimmune Sjögren's Disease (SjD) for Biomarker Discovery and investigated disease mechanisms of autoimmune dacryoadenitis in the Lacrimal Glands. Using RNA Sequencing and autoantibody microarrays I validated microRNA biomarkers in human subjects.
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Shih-Po Su
Postdoctoral Scholar, Ophthalmology
BioDr. Shih-Po Su is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, in 2024. His doctoral research focused on the development of advanced optical imaging systems, including a three-dimensional near-infrared fluorescence and photoacoustic vascular imaging platform for preclinical applications.
Dr. Su has over a decade of experience in biomedical imaging, integrating optical system design, image analysis, and in vivo disease modeling. His research interests center on the interface of optical engineering and translational medicine, particularly in retinal ganglion cell (RGC) imaging and neuroprotective strategies for glaucoma. At Stanford, he is extending his expertise to short-wave infrared (SWIR/NIR-II) imaging and in vivo retinal functional imaging to establish sensitive biomarkers for neurodegeneration.
His recent work has advanced optical imaging and NIR-II contrast agents, including the co-development of polymer-dot probes for three-dimensional tumor and bone imaging (Chemical Science, 2022; Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021) and an ultrabright polymer-dot platform for rotational stereo imaging (Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2024). He also designed integrated small-animal imaging systems combining bioluminescence tomography and ultrasound, as well as rotational stereo NIR-II fluorescence imaging (Optics Express, 2024; Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2023; Biosensors, 2022).
Dr. Su has received multiple international recognitions, including the Taiwan Science and Technology Hub@Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024), First Prize in the NYCU Annual Thesis Competition (2023), the Future Tech Award (MOST, 2022), and the MOST Pilot Scholarship Program (2019). His long-term goal is to develop regenerative medicine–based imaging and therapeutic platforms to address unmet clinical needs in neurodegenerative diseases and vision restoration.
