Michael R Hamblin Ph D is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate Professor of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School and the affiliated faculty of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology. He directs a laboratory of around twelve scientists who work in photodynamic therapy and low-level light therapy. He has published 274 peer-reviewed articles, is Associate Editor for eight journals and serves on NIH Study-Sections. He has edited ten proceedings volumes together with four other major textbooks on PDT and photomedicine. In 2011 Dr Hamblin was honored by election as a Fellow of SPIE.