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and List of Publications (Past five years only)

 

Shaul Mordechai, PhD

Professor of  Physics

Head, Biomedical Spectroscopy

Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev,

Beer Sheva 84105, Israel 

Tel: 972-8-6461-749

Fax: 972-8-6467-903

Email: shaulm@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

 

Education:

BSc. 1962-1965 Racah Inst. of Physics, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem

MSc. 1965-1967 Racah Inst. of Physics, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem

PhD. 1967-1971 Racah Inst. of Physics, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem

 

Research Interest:

Biomedical Optics, FTIR-Microscopy Techniques, Tissue Spectroscopy, Mid-IR Spectrometry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Medical Informatics.

Employment History:

1992-1993

Visiting scientist, Department of Physics, The University of Texas, Austin, TX (Appointment at Los Alamos National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM).

1990-present

Full Professor, Department of Physics, 

Ben Gurion University.

1987-1989

Visiting Scientist, Department of Physics, 

The University of Texas, Austin TX.  

1984-1985

 Research Faculty, Department of Physics, 

University of Texas, Austin TX.

1982-1989

 Associate Professor,  Department of Physics, BGU.

1983-1984

Visiting Research Investigator, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

1975-1982

 Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, BGU.

1976-1978

 Research Investigator, Department of Physics,

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

1972-1975

Lecturer, Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University

  

Referee  in International Journals

1.  Nature Medicine

2.  The Lancet Oncology

3.  Physical Review Letters

4.  Biophysical Journal

5.  J.  Biomedical  Optics

6.  Applied Optics

7.  European Biophysics Journal 

8.  Vibrational Spectroscopy

9.  Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics

10.              Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

11.              Int. J.  Rad. Biology

12.              Optical Engineering

13.              Australian J. of Chemistry 

Refereed Publications (past five years only):

1.  S. Walfisch, H. Mnitentag, S. Mordechai and A. Gersten, Diamond-shaped Optical Fiber Delivery System”, Journal of Clin. Laser Medicine and Surgery, 17(4), pp. 151-154, 1999.

     Keywords: Diamond shaped fiberoptic system; Delivery systems; Biological tissues.

2.  S. Argov, A. Salman, J. Goldstein and S. Mordechai,  Detection of Cancerous human Tissues Using  Advanced Infrared Technology", Acta Histochemica, 101, pp. 463, 1999.  

      Keywords: Colon cancer, FTIR-microspectroscopy; Biological markers.

3.  A. Salman, S. Argov, R. Jagannathan, J. Goldstein, I. Sinelnikov, Hugo Guterman and S. Mordechai, FT-IR Microscopic Characterization of Normal and Malignant Human Colonic Tissues”, Cell. Mol. Biol. Vol. 47, pp. 159-166, 2001.

      Keywords: FT-IR; microspectrometry; Colon cancer; Histology review; Band fitting.

4.  R. Jagannathan, A. Salman, N. Grossman, Z. Hammody, B. Cohen and S. Mordechai, “FTIR Microscopic Studies on Normal and H-Ras Oncogene Transfected Cultured Mouse Fibroblasts“, Eur Biophys J.  Vol 30 (4), pp. 250-255, 2001. 

     Keywords: Cancer; Mouse fibroblasts; Ras oncogene; Fourier transform IR microscopy; Spectral fitting.

5.  R. Jagannathan, A. Salman, S. Argov, J. Goldstein, I. Sinelnikov, S. Walfisch, Hugo Guterman and S. Mordechai, “FTIR Microscopic Studies on Normal, Polyp and Malignant Human Colonic Tissues”, Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Application”, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 99-117, 2001.                      

      Keywords: Colon cancer; FTIR-microscopy; Polyp; Age; Grade of malignancy; LDA.

6.   N. Grossman, E. Ilovitz, O. Chaims, A. Salman, R. Jagannathan, S. Mark, B. Cohen, J. Gopas and S. Mordechai,” Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Detection of Malignancy: H-Ras Overexpressing Fibroblasts as a Model”, J Biochem Biophys Methods. 50 (1), pp. 53-63, 2001.              

     Keywords: Endogenous fluorescence; Optical diagnosis; Cancer; Fibroblasts; H-ras.

7.   R. Jagannathan, A. Salman, Z. Hammody, B. Cohen, J. Gopas, N. Grossman and S. Mordechai, Application of FTIR Microscopy for the Characterization of Malignancy: H-Ras Transfected Murine Fibroblasts as an Example”, J. Biochem Biophys Methods, Vol. 50 (1), pp. 33-42, 2001.

      Keywords: FTIR microscopy; Fibroblasts; Cancer; Oncogenes; H-ras.

8.   M. Huleihel, A. Salman, V. Erukhimovitch, R. Jagannathan, Z. Hammody and S. Mordechai, “Novel Optical Method for Study of Viral Carcinogenesis in Vitro”, J. Biochem Biophys Methods,  Vol. 50, (2-3), pp.111-121, 2002.                     

     Keywords: FTIR microscopy; Cancer; Diagnosis; Malignant cells; Retroviruses; IR spectroscopy; NIH/3T3 cells

9.   R. Jagannathan, S. Argov, A. Salman, M. Yuzhelevski, I. Sinelnikov, J. Goldstein, V. Erukhimovitch and S. Mordechai, “Spectroscopic Evidence for Site Specific Cellular Activity in the Tubular Gland in Human Intestine”, Eur. Biophys. J  Vol. 30(8), pp. 612-616, 2002.  

     Keywords: Colon; cancer, Crypt epithelial cells; FTIR-microspectroscopy.

10. Oleg Kleiner, Jagannathan Ramesh, Mahmoud Huleihel, Beny Cohen, Keren Kantarovich, Chen Levi, Borris Polyak, Robert Marks, Jacov Mordehai, Zahavi Cohen and Shaul Mordechai, “Application of FTIR spectroscopy and Fluorescence Microscopy for the Analysis of Gallstones", BioMed Central Gastroenterology, 2(1): 3, 2002.

     Keywords: Gallstones, FTIR-spectroscopy; Fluorescence microscopy; Risk factors.

11. S. Argov, Jagannathan Ramesh, A. Salman, Jed Goldstein, I. Sinelnikov, Hugo Guterman, and S. Mordechai, Diagnostic Potential of FTIR Microspectroscopy and Advanced Computational Methods in Colon Cancer Patients”, J. Biomed. Optics, Vol. 7, No. 2  pp. 248-254,           2002. *  

     Keywords: Colon cancer, Diagnosis, Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy; Artificial neural network.

12. Jagannathan Ramesh, Kapelushnik J, Mordehai J, Moser A, Huleihel M, Erukhimovitch V, Levi C, Mordechai S, “Novel Methodology for the follow-up of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children”, J. Bioch Biophy Methods, Vol. 51, pp. 251-261, 2002.                                            

    Keywords: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia; Drugs; Follow-up; Lymphocytes; FTIR microspectroscopy.

13. A. Salman, Jagannathan Ramesh,  V. Erukhimovitch,  S.Mordechai  and Mahmoud Huleihel “FTIR Microscopy of malignant fibroblasts infected with mouse sarcoma virusJ. Bioch  Biophy Methods, Vol. 55(2), pp. 141-153, 2003.

     Keywords: Fibroblast; MuSV; FTIR microspectroscopy; Cluster analysis.

14. Jagannathan Ramesh,  Mahmoud Huleihel, Jacov Mordehai, Asher Moser, Vitaly Erukhimovitch, Chen Levi, Joseph Kapelushnik and Shaul Mordechai preliminary results of Evaluation of progress in chemotherapy for childhood leukemia patients employing Fourier-transform infrared Microspectroscopy and cluster analysis” , J. Lab. Clin. Med, Vol. 141/6 pp. 385-394, 2003.

    Keywords: ALL, Chemotherapy; Blast;  FTIR-microspectroscopy; Biological markers; Cluster analysis.

15. S. Mordechai, S. Argov, R. K. Sahu, S. Walfisch, H. Gutrman, I. Sinelnikov, A. Salman, J. Goldestein, "FTIR-microspectroscopy: A new effective quantitative method for diagnosis of cancer", Acta Histochem. Vol. 105(4), pp. 354 2003.

     Keywords: Colon cancer, FTIR-microspectroscopy; Cervical cancer; PNN.  

16. Jacov Mordehai , Jagannathan Ramesh, Mahmoud Huleihel, Zahavi Cohen, Oleg Kleiner, Marina Talyshinsky, Vitaly Erukhimovitch, Aviv Cahana, Ahmad Salman, Ranjit Kumar Sahu, Hugo Guterman and Shaul Mordechai, STUDIES ON ACUTE HUMAN INFECTIONS USING FTIR MICROSPECTROSCOPY AND CLUSTER ANALYSISBiopolymers, Vol. 73(4) pp. 494-502, 2004.  

       Keywords:   FTIR; Blood; Infection; Diagnosis;  Cluster analysis.  

17. S. Mark, R.K. Sahu, K. Kantarovich, A. Podshyvalov, H. Guterman, J. Goldstein, R. Jagannathan, S. Argov and S. Mordechai, "Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy as a quantitative diagnostic tool for assignment of premalignancy grading in cervical neoplasia" J. Biomed. Optics, Vol. 9(3), pp. 557-567,  2004.  

      Keywords: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, Staging, Fourier transformed infrared microspectroscopy, Histology review, Probabilistic neural networks.   

18. A. Salman PhD, R.K. Sahu PhD, E. Bernshtain BSc, J. Goldestein MD, S. Walfisch MD, S. Argov PhD, and S. Mordechai PhD "PROBING CELL PROLIFERATION IN THE HUMAN COLON USING VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY: A NOVEL USE OF FTIR-MICROSPECTROSCOPY"  Vibrational Spectroscopy, Vol. 34(2), pp.301-308, 2004. 

     Keywords: Colon cancer, Crypt, Cell dynamics, Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy, Metabolites, Proliferation.  

19. S. Mordechai, R.K. Sahu, Z. Hammody, S. Mark, K. Kantarovich, A. Podshyvalov, J. Goldestein and S. Argov,  "POSSIBLE Common biomarkers from ftir-microspectroscopy of cervical cancer and melanoma", J. of Microscopy,  Volume 215 (1), Pp 86-91, 2004. 

     Keywords: Cervical cancer, melanoma, FTIR-MSP, RN/DNA ratio, Diagnosis.

20. R.K. Sahu, S. Argov, E. Bernshtain, A. Salman, S. Walfisch, J. Goldestein and S. Mordechai

     "Detection of abnormal proliferation in histologically “normal” colonic biopsies using FTIR-microspectroscopy",  Scan. J. of Gastroenterology Volume39 (6), Pp. 557-66.,  Jun 2004. 

     Keywords: Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy, Colon cancer, Crypt proliferation, Diagnosis, histology review.  

21. Y. Mizrachi, N. Porat, S. Lifshitz, S. Novick, A. Levi, E. Ling, O. Liron, S. Mordechai, R.K. Sahu and R. Dagan,  "VIRULENCE OF STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE MAY BE DETERMINED INDEPENDENTLY OF CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE",  FEMS Microbiology Letters, Vol.  233, pp. 147-152, 2004.

      Keywords: Streptococcus peneumonia, Capsular polysaccaride, Virulence factors, Microbial pathogenesis

22.         Shmuel Argov ,Ranjit K. Sahu, Evgenia Bernshtain, Ahmad Salman, Guy Shohat, Udi Zelig, and Shaul Mordechai,Inflamatory Bowel Diseases as an Intermediate Stage Between Normal and Cancer:A FTIR-Microspectroscopy Approach”, Biopolymers Vol. 75(5), pp 384-92,  Dec 2004.

      Keywords: Inflamatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Colon cancer, FTIR-microscopy

23.         R. K. Sahu, , S. Argov, , A. Salman, M. Huleihel,  , N. Grossman, Z. Hammody, ,  J. Kapelushnik, and   S. Mordechai Characteristic absorbance of nucleic acids in the Mid-IR region as possible common biomarkers for diagnosis of malignancy”, Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, Volume 3( 6), Pp 629-638, 2004.  

     Keywords: Nucleic acids, FTIR, Malignancy, Biomarkers 

24. R. K. Sahu, S. Argov, A. Salman, U.Zelig, M. Huleihel, N. Grossman,  J. Gopas,  J. Kapelushnik and S. Mordechai " Can FTIR-Spectroscopy at  Higher Wavenumbers (mid IR) Shed Light on Biomarkers for Carcinogenesis in Tissues?" .  J. Biomed. Optics, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2005.

      Keywords: FTIR-Spectroscopy, Biomarkers, carcigenesis

25. A. Podshyvalov, R.K. Sahu, S. Mark, K. Kantarovich, H. Guterman, J. Goldstein, R. Jagannathan, S. Argov and S. Mordechai. " Distinction of Cervical Cancer Biopsies by Use of Infrared Microspectroscopy and Probabilistic Neural Networks"  Applied Optics, Vol. 44, No. 18, 3725-34, 2005.

      Keywords: Cervical Cancer, FTIR-MSP, Probabilistic Neural Netwaorks

26.  R.K. Sahu and S. Mordechai , “Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in cancer detection , Future Oncology Vol. 1, No. 5, Pp 635-647, 2005.

27.        Ranjit  Kumar  Sahu, Udi Zelig, Mahmoud Huleihel,  Nir Brosh, Marina Talyshinsky, Miriam Ben-Harosh, Shaul Mordechai and  Jossi Kapelushnik.  Continuous monitoring of WBC (biochemistry) in an adult leukemia   patient using advanced FTIR-spectroscopyLeuk. Res. Vol 30 (6), Pp. 687-93, 2006.

 

28.     R. K. Sahu, S. Mordechai, S. Pesakhov, R. Dagan, and N. Porat. “Use of FTIR Spectroscopy to Distinguish between Capsular Types and Capsular Quantities in Streptococcus pneumoniae”  Biopolymers, 83(4):434-42, 2006.

 

29.    Evgeny Bogomolny, Mahmoud Huleihel,Yelena Suproun, Ranjit Sahu and Shaul Mordechai.   Early spectral changes of cellular malignant transformation using Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy” Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), 12 ( 2), 2007. 

30.  Z. Hammody, M. Huleihal, A. Salma, S. Argov, R. Moreh, A. Katzer, S. Mordechai,  Potential of 'Flat' Fiber Evanescent Wave Spectroscopy to Discriminate Between Normal and Malignant Cells in vitro,“ J. of Microscopy, In Press, 2007.

 

 

Chapter in Books

1.      "TECHNIQUES IN INFREARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY & ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR COLON CANCER DIAGNOSIS", By S. Mordechai, A. Salman, R.K. Sahu,  H.Guterman  and S. Argov.  Medical  Imaging Systems Technology Edited by Carnelius T Leondes, Vol. 1, Chapter 4 Pp 87-118, World Scientific ISBN: 981-256-993-6, 2005.

2.      NEW APPROACHES TO CERVICAL CANCER DIAGNOSIS USING FTIR-SPECTROSCOPY”, By R.K Sahu, S. Argov, A. Katzir and S. Mordechai. In Cancer research at the leading Edge ISBN 978-1-60021-728-9. Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (In Press)

 

       

Proceedings in International Conferences / Meeting (past five years only):

1.  S. Mordechai, A. Salman, S. Argov, O. Haims, B. Cohen, V. Erukhimovitch, J. Goldstein and Z. Hammody, “Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Human Cancerous and Normal Intestine”, Proceeding of SPIE, Vol. 3918, pp. 66-77, 2000.

     Keywords: Cancer diagnosis; FTIR microscopy; Intestinal cancer; Epithelial cells; Band fitting.  

2.  S. Mordechai, S. Argov, A. Salman, B. Cohen, R. Jagannathan, V. Erukhimovitch, J. Goldstein and Igor Sinelnikov, FTIR Microscopic Comparative Study on Normal, Premalignant and Malignant Tissues of Human Intestine”, Proceeding of SPIE, Vol. 4129, pp. 231-242, 2000. 

     Keywords: Cancer diagnosis; FTIR-microspectroscopy; Intestinal cancer; Epithelial cells; Band fitting.

  3.  A. Salman, R.Jagannathan, Z. Hammody, B. Cohen, N. Grossman and S. Mordechai,FTIR MICROSCOPIC STUDIES oN Normal and H-RAS TRANSFECTED CULTURED MOUSE FIBROBLAST CELLS.” Proceeding of  SPIE, Vol. 4161, pp. 225-233, 2000.

     Keywords: Cancer, Mouse fibroblast cell culture; Ras oncogene; micro-FTIR; Band fitting.  

  4.  N. Grossman, O. Chaims,  E. Ilovitz, S. Mark, J. Goppas, A. Salman, B. Cohen and S. Mordechai, Endogenous fluorescence of normal and malignant fibroblast cultures”, Proceeding of  SPIE, Vol. 4161, pp. 158-166, 2000.

     Keywords: Light-Iinduced Fluorescence; Cancer diagnosis; Fibroblasts; Ras .  

5.  S. Mordechai, J. Mordechai , Jagannathan Ramesh, C. Levi, A. Moser, V. Erukhimovitch, M. Huleihel, and J. Kapelushnik, “Application of FTIR Microscopy for the Follow up of Childhood Leukemia Chemotherapy”, in Subsurface and Surface Sensing Technologies and Applications III, Cam Nguyen Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4491, pp. 243-250, 2001.  

     Keywords: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Childhood, Chemotherapy, FTIR microspectroscopy.

 6.  S. Mordechai, S. Mark, A. Podshyvalov, K. Kantarovich, E. Bernshtain, A. Salman, V. Erukhimovitch, H. Guterman, J. Goldstein, S. Argov, R. Jagannathan, "Comparative studies on cervical and colonic malignancies using FTIR-microspectroscopy" Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5047, Pp. 367-377,  2003.

     Keywords: FT-IR microspectroscopy, Colon, Cervix, Cancer, Human tissue.

7.  S. Mordechai, S. Argov, R.K. Sahu, A. Podshyvalov and S. Mark "SIGNATURE OF MALIGNANCY IN FOURIER TRANSFORMED INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY  IN CERVICAL CANCER", Joint International Laser Conference, Laser in Medical Science Vol. 18, Supplement 1, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2003.

     Keywords: Cervical cancer, Histology review, Histology Review, FTIR-microspectroscopy, Probabilistic neural networks.

8.  S. Mordechai, R.K. Sahu , Z. Hammody, S. Mark, K. Kantarovich, S. Argov, A. Podshyvalov, and J. Goldstein "Common biomarkers from FTIR-microspectrscopy of cervical cancer and melanoma", Book of Abstracts, 1st International Meeting on Applied Physics, Badajoz APHYS-2003, pp. 454, Spain.

     Keywords: Cervical cancer; Melanoma; FTIR-MSP; Diagnosis; PNN. 

9.  R.K. Sahu , S. Argov, A. Salman, U. Zelig, J. Kapelushnik and S. Mordechai "CHARACTERISTIC aBSORBANCE OF nUCLEIC aCIDS AS POSSIBLE pARAMETER FOR dISTINCTION OF CANCER AND NORMAL TISSUES USING fTIR-MICROSPECTROSCOPY", Raman and IR Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine RISBM 2004, p. 19 Jena, Germany.

     Keywords: FTIR-Microscopy, Nucleic Acids, Cancer, Tissue, Cell Lines. 

10. Z. Hammody, R.K. Sahu , S. Argov and S. Mordechai, "CHARACTERIZATION OF MALIGNANT  melanoma using VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY ", Raman and IR Spectroscopy in Biology and Medicine RISBM 2004, pp. 55,  Jena, Germany.

     Keywords: Malignant Melanoma; Nevus, FTIR-Microscopy; RNA; DNA. 

11. S. Mordechai, R.K. Sahu, M. Huleihel, U. Zelig, B. Nir, M. Talyshinsky, M. Ben-Harosh and J. Kapelushnik, "MONITORING CHANGES IN BLOOD COMPONENTS DURING TREATMENT OF LEUKEMIA USING ADVANCED FTIR-MICROSPECTROSCOPY", Shedding New Light on Disease: Optical Diagnosis for the New Millenium, 2004, Newark, NJ, USA.

     Keywords: Leukemia, FTIR, Chemotherapy, Blood

12. S. Argov, R. Sahu, Z. Hammody, S. Ahmad, E. Cagnano and S. Mordechai, "NEW DIRECTION IN DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANCY USING VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY", The 12th International Congress of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, July 2004, in La Jolla, California, USA.

      Keywords: FTIR-Microscopy, Colon Cancer, Cervical Cancer,  Melanoma, Diagnosis

13. R. K. Sahu, N. Porat,  S. Pesakhov and S. Mordechai, "VARIATIONS IN FTIR SPECTRA BETWEEN OPAQUE AND TRANSPARENT PHENOTYPIC VARIANTS  OF STREPTOCOCCUS  PNEUMONIAE", FT-IR Spectroscopy in Microbiological and Medical Diagnostic, October 2004, Berlin, Germany

14.  Z. Hammody, R.K. Sahu, S. Mordechai, E. Cagnano  and S. Argov, "IDENTIFICATION OF DIAGNOSTIC WAVENUMBERS FOR DETECTION OF MALIGNANT MELANOMA USING FEWS SYSTEM",  83 International  Bunsen Discussion meeting, October 2004, Dresden, Germany

15. R.K.Sahu,  J.Kapelushnik, M.Huleihel, N.Grossman, S.Ahmad, U.Zelig, S. Argov and S.Mordechai," COMMON FEATURES OF CARCINOGENIC CELLS AND TISSUES USING FTIR-MICROSPECTROSCOPY: IMPLICATIONS OF ABSORBANCE IN THE HIGHER WAVENUMBERS IN CANCER DIAGNOSIS",83 International  Bunsen Discussion meeting, October 2004, Dresden, Germany.

16.  S. Mordechai,   S. Argov,  U. Zelig, and R. K. Sahu, " PROGRESSION OF NORMAL CERVICAL TISSUES TO CANCER THROUGH INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA USING INFRARED MICROSPECTROSCOPY ",  UICC World Conferance for Cancer Organisations,  November, 2004.Dublin , Ireland.

17.  R. K. Sahu,  J. Kapelushnik,  H. Mahmoud,  U. Zelig,  B. Nir,  M.Talshinsky,  M. Ben-Harosh  and   S. Mordechai, " CHANGES IN PLASMA DURING TREATMENT OF LEUKEMIA   USING ADVANCED FTIR-MICROSPECTROSCOPY ", Israel Physical Society, 50th  Annual Meeting  , December 2004, Technion Haifa, Israel.

18. Shlomo Walfisch,  Ranjit Kumar Sahu, Shmuel Argov  and Shaul Mordechai ,  "DIAGNOSIS OF COLONIC MALIGNANCY USING VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY: CRYPTS AS POSSIBLE MARKERS", The Israeli Society for Endosccopic Surgery, December 2004, Eilat, Israel.

19. R.K. Sahu, S. Argov, S. Walfisch and S. Mordechai, "  Assessement of Abnormal Proliferation (Premalignancy) in Colon Resection Margins Using FTIR-microspectroscopy*", 2nd International Congress on Gastroitestinal Oncology, Santorini Island, Greece, 2005.  * First Award for Oral Presentation.

20. Shaul Mordechai “Assessment of Abnormal Proliferation (Premalignancy) in Colon Resection Margins Using FTIR-microspectroscopy”, Bi-National Israel-Italian Optronics Workshop, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheeva, Israel, 2005. Invited talk.

21. S. Mordechai, S. Argov, S. Walfisch, H. Guterman, R. Moreh, A. Salman and R.K. Sahu “ FTIR Spectroscopy in Diagnosis of Colon Cancer: Promises and Challenges”, Shedding Light on Disease: Optical Diagnosis for the New Millennium, Spec 2006, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006. Invited talk.

22. Z. Hammody, R.K. Sahu, E. Cagnano, R. Moreh, S. Mordechai and S. Argov “ Identification of Diagnostic Wavenumbers for Detection of Malignant Melanoma Using FTIR Spectroscopy” Shedding Light on Disease: Optical Diagnosis for the New Millennium, Spec 2006, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006.

23. R.K. Sahu, S. Mordechai and E. Manor “ Detection of DNA Signals in FTIR Spectra of a Dividing Lymphoblastic Cell Line”, Shedding Light on Disease: Optical Diagnosis for the New Millennium, Spec 2006, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006.

24. Ziad Hammody, E. Cagnano, R. Moreh, S. Mordechai and S. Argov “Identification of Diagnostic Wavenumbers for Detection of Malignant Melanoma Using FTIR Spectroscopy”, Israel Society for Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, 25th Annual Scientific Meeting, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 2006. Invited talk.
25.  E. Bogomolny, M. Huleihel, R. Sahu, S. MordechaiEarly Spectral Changes

in Cellular Malignant Transformation Using  Vibrational Spectroscopy”,  The XXVIIIth European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS XXVIII) , Istanbul Turkey,  2006.

26.    Udi Zelig, Ilana Nathan, Joseph Kapelushnik and Shaul Mordechai “Diagnosis and monitoring leukemia patients' response to chemotherapy using FTIR spectroscopy”, 4th International Conference On Advanced Vibrational  Spectroscopy, Corfu- Greece, 2007.

 

27.  R.K. Sahu, S. Argov , S. Walfisch , and  S. Mordechai “Predictability of colonic cancer recurrence  using the crypt model and FTIR-microscopy”, 3th International Congress on Gastrointestinal Oncology, Crete, Greece, 2007.

 

 

 

Patents Submitted :

1.    Israeli Patent (Patent Registration Number : 146521) titled “NOVEL OPTICAL METHOD FOR DIAGNOSIS AND GRADING OF PREMALIGNANT AND MALIGNANT HUMAN COLONIC TISSUES”.

2.    International Patent Application (PCT/IL02/00912) titled: "Novel Optical Method for Diagnosis and Staging of Premalignant and Malignant Human Colonic Tissues".

  


 

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