New Laser Technology Will Speed Up Detection of Deadly Melanoma

Wausau, WI – A new medical diagnostic device invented by John A. Viator, Ph.D, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and dermatology at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, can speed up the diagnosis of metastatic melanoma and may soon help save hundreds of lives.  The new device was the outcome of more than five years of research and development at the university’s Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center--funded in part by a $33,000 research grant in 2007 from the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS). The new photoacoustic melanoma detection