About

Molcular Photonics for Medicine

What's our Lab?

This is the lab for Molecular Photonics for Medicine.
The motto of our lab for the study is “Seeing is believing”. One of our challenges is to visualize what nobody knows by applying photonics, mechanics, electronics, informatics, and so on. Even if a phenomenon is hard to understand, visualizing the phenomenon makes the phenomenon a reality, which innovates science and technology. Then, we would like to revolutionize science and technology by making the impossible possible.

"Visualization creates a possibility, and simple thinking leads us to the essence of the possibility, leading state-of-the-art science. Technology advances by diversifying the possibilities".

What is “Molecular Photonics for Medicine”?

Conventionally, the medical application of photonics has developed in a one-directional manner: applying existing optical technologies to medicine. In contrast, our laboratory believes that by confronting medicine as a complex system, new physics and concepts related to light-molecule interactions can be revealed. In other words, we position medicine not merely as a field of application, but as an opportunity to expand photonics itself.

The fusion of different disciplines is not a one-way application, but a process that generates new perspectives in both directions. Starting from the perspectives that only become visible at the intersection of different fields, we aim to create new concepts, values, and ideas, and to feed them back into both photonics and medicine. This is the vision we pursue as “Medical Molecular Photonics.”

Mission, Vision and Value statements

Mission

To visualize various phenomena, identify the essence, and create possibilities by photonics

Vision

To bring inspiration and innovation from nature to all people in the world through "Photonics in pursuit of Seeing" co-created through interdisciplinary cooperation

Five Core Values

Be innovative

We innovate the world by creative destruction with the spirit to enjoy the controversy without fearing the heresy theory.

Be challenging

We challenge what nobody has done.

Be open

We welcome diversity, and innovate the world through interdisciplinary cooperation.

Be integrity

We are honest, open, ethical, and fair in science. We accept the facts without prejudice, and drive the new science and technology.

Be a leader

We lead world knowledge as a scientist with a professional mind.

Sprits