Stephen Allen Boppart

Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research: Neurophotonics, Optogenetics, Biophotonics, and Optical Imaging

Additional Campus Affiliations

W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, GSK Center for Optical Molecular Imaging, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Recent Publications

Ahn, Y., Lee, J. H., Hurd, C., Lee, J., Park, J., Markowicz, A. A., Zhang, Z., Hwang, J., Monroy, G. L., Rogers, S. A., Jung, W., Boppart, S. A., & Kong, H. (2026). Microblasting Wound Dressings Mechanically Disrupt Polymicrobial Biofilms to Enhance Healing in Treatment-Resistant Wounds. Advanced Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.75999

Butola, A., Ghosh, B., Park, J., Kwon, M., De la Cadena, A., Mukherjee, S. S., Bhargava, R., Boppart, S. A., & Agarwal, K. (2026). Label-free correlative morpho-chemical tomography of 3D kidney mesangial cells. Journal of biomedical optics, 31(3), Article 036501. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.31.3.036501

De la Cadena, A., Aksamitiene, E., Ho, R. J., Bhargava, R., & Boppart, S. A. (2026). Label-free multimodal nonlinear microscopy enabled by an optical parametric generator. APL Photonics, 11(6), Article 066121. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0331944

De laCadena, A., Aksamitiene, E., & Boppart, S. A. (2026). Unified Vibrational and Multiphoton Label-Free Nonlinear Microscopy for Simultaneous Chemical and Structural Imaging. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 32(4), Article 7100612. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3650148

Fliflet, A. M., Spradlin, R. A., Tan, Y., Nishitha Vijayan, A., Choi, S. J., Kao, W. C., Aksamitiene, E., Nelappana, M., Ding, S., Huang, K. Y., Joshi, A., Kambar, N., Bludgen, T., Meehan, M., Boss, J. L., Knipp, M., Fan, H., Leal, C., Sunde, R. A., ... Boppart, M. D. (2026). Exercise Training Stimulates the Release of Glutathione Peroxidase 1 (GPX1)-Enriched Extracellular Vesicles That Promote Angiogenesis. FASEB Journal, 40(12), Article e72052. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202505096RR

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