Wellman Center Discovery Pipeline
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Discoveries in Clinical Use Today- (FDA approved or cleared)
- Normalization of Scars by Fractionated Laser Treatment
- Burns-Smart laser surgery
- Skin Assessment by Confocal Microscopy
- Pseudofolliculitis Barbae Treatment - Inflammatory disease of hair follicles
- Rapid Eye Assessment by OCT
- Wet Macular Degeneration - Visudyne - Novartis
- Glaucoma Treatment - Laser Trabeculoplasty
- Improvement of Wound Healing by Low-Level Light Therapy
- Kidney Stones Laser Lithotripsy
- Tattoo Removal (requested by DOD)
- Hair Removal (requested by DOD)
- Vascular Abnormalities Treatment - birth marks, port wine stains, spider veins
- Cardiac Interventions -visualization of coronary arteries in real time
- Gastroenterology (GI) Interventions -visualization of the total GI track in real time (3)
- Noninvasive Fat Removal - Zeltiq
- Vocal Cord Treatment: polyps, cancer
- Resurfacing of Aging Skin
- Treatment of pigmentary lesions on the skin
- Treatment of skin cancers
- Image-guided biopsy of Early Cancer
- Fractionated Epidermal Grafting for Wounds
- Tissue Copying device for full thickness skin grafting
- Tissue Copying for Wounds
- Treatment for Vitiligo
- Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Wound and burn autologous full thickness skin grafting at bedside
Platform Technologies Developed or Advanced by Wellman
- Fractional Laser Therapy
- Non-Invasive Imaging
- Confocal Microscopy
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
- Broadband Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy
- Modulated (Hyperspectral) Imaging
- Photochemical Tissue Bonding (PTB)
- Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)
- Selective Photothermolysis
- Tissue copying for multiple applications
- Smart bandages
- Intra-vascular Imaging & Catheters
- Micro OCT
- Oral Capsule Micro Imaging
- Whole Organ Micro ImagingIll. Cancer Smart Bombs
- Cryolipolysis
- Human Performance Enchancement
- Injury Prevention and Monitoring
- Coagulopathy Detection System
- Acoustic Radiative Force Technology (AR Force)
- FLIM Imaging