An ICTP Meeting

This interdisciplinary College is designed to equip students and early-career researchers with the knowledge and skills needed to address global health challenges, focusing on affordable, portable, and scalable optical and photonic technologies. In addition to lectures, hands-on sessions will be organized each day of the college

• Advanced microscopic techniques: digital holographic, bright-field, confocal, phase contrast, super-resolution and advanced fluorescence microscopy
• Optical coherence tomography
• Photonics tools for rapid detection and treatment of viral and bacterial infections
• Nanophotonics and plasmonics for ultrasensitive biosensing
• Lab-on-a-chip optical systems for point-of-care testing
• Photodynamic therapy for cancer and infectious diseases
• Biomedical photoacoustics and imaging
• Photothermal diagnostics and imaging. Nanoparticles and Photothermal therapy
• Metasurfaces for biosensing, molecular diagnostics, and biomedical imaging

Research abstracts: Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. ​
Please use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available also below for download.

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.