Dongkyun Kang, PhD
Cancer Prevention and Control Program
Biography
Dr. Kang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Prior to joining the UA, Dr. Kang worked as an Assistant professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Cancer Focus
Dr. Kang's research interests include in vivo microscopy technologies for low-resource settings. Dr. Kang is currently leading NIH-sponsored projects on developing smartphone confocal microscopy devices for skin and cervical cancer diagnosis in Uganda.
Selected Publications
Freeman, E. E., A. Semeere, M. Laker-Oketta, P. Namaganda, H. Osman, R. Lukande, D. McMahon, D. Seth, L. Oyesiku, G. J. Tearney, et al., "Feasibility and implementation of portable confocal microscopy for point-of-care diagnosis of cutaneous lesions in a low-resource setting.", J Am Acad Dermatol, 2020 May 03. PMCID: PMC7606307 PMID: 32376425
Nguyen, C. D., P. K. O'Neal, N. Kulkarni, E. Yang, and D. Kang, "Scattering-Based Light-Sheet Microscopy for Rapid Cellular Imaging of Fresh Tissue.", Lasers Surg Med, 2020 Dec 01. PMID: 33259692
Zhu, W., G. Pirovano, P. K. O'Neal, C. Gong, N. Kulkarni, C. D. Nguyen, C. Brand, T. Reiner, and D. Kang, "Smartphone epifluorescence microscopy for cellular imaging of fresh tissue in low-resource settings.", Biomed Opt Express, vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 89-98, 2020 Jan 01. PMCID: PMC6968742 PMID: 32010502
Gong, C., D. B. Stratton, C. N. Curiel-Lewandrowski, and D. Kang, "Speckle-free, near-infrared portable confocal microscope.", Appl Opt, vol. 59, issue 22, pp. G41-G46, 2020 Aug 01. PMID: 32749315
Gong, C., N. Kulkarni, W. Zhu, C. David Nguyen, C. Curiel-Lewandrowski, and D. Kang, "Low-cost, high-speed near infrared reflectance confocal microscope.", Biomed Opt Express, vol. 10, issue 7, pp. 3497-3505, 2019 Jul 01. PMCID: PMC6640835 PMID: 31360602