David A. Boas, PhD
Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, University of Pennsylvania
BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute



David Boas, Ph.D. (Professor, Biomedical Engineering) is Director of the Neurophotonics Center at Boston University. He received his BS in Physics at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and PhD in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. During his academic career, he has supervised 44 students and post-doctoral fellows, and he has published over 250 papers that have received over 30,000 citations and an h-index of 101. He is the founding President of the Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy and founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neurophotonics published by SPIE. Dr. Boas was awarded the Britton Chance Award in Biomedical Optics in 2016 for his development of several novel, high-impact biomedical optical technologies in the neurosciences, as well as following through with impactful application studies, and fostering the widespread adoption of these technologies. He was elected a Fellow of AIMBE, SPIE, and OSA in 2017.

As Director of the Neurophotonics Center, he facilitates the development and application of novel optical methods to address a broad range of neuroscience questions from basic science to clinical translation. His own research efforts focus on neurovascular coupling, cerebral oxygen delivery and consumption, functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), and physiological modeling. Studies are done in rodents and humans, invasively and non-invasively, microscopically and macroscopically, providing a powerful ability to translate findings from animals to humans, and conversely to address in animals questions raised during human studies. One example of this that will tie together many of Dr. Boas’ activities is studying functional brain recovery in survivors of stroke. Human neuroimaging by fMRI and fNIRS measures hemodynamic functional recovery but it is not known if neuro-vascular coupling differs in these patients compared to healthy subjects. Animal studies will answer this question enabling more quantitative interpretation of the human neuroimaging studies.

Director
Neurophotonics Center




NCS-FR: Engineering Brain Circuits for Complex Scene Analysis
09/01/2023 - 08/31/2028 (Multi-PI)
PI: David A. Boas, PhD
National Science Foundation
SMA-2319321

Neurophotonic Advances for Mechanistic Investigation of the Role of Capillary Dysfunction in Stroke Recovery
09/27/2022 - 08/31/2027 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R01NS127156-02

Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice
04/01/2022 - 03/31/2027 (Co-Investigator)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R01NS126596-02

A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy
08/15/2023 - 07/31/2026 (Multi-PI)
PI: David A. Boas, PhD
NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
1UG3EB034710-01

The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function
09/22/2020 - 05/31/2025 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Bioengineering
5U01EB029856-04

Time-Gated Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy for functional imaging of the human brain
09/21/2019 - 06/30/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NIBIB
5U01EB028660-04

The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity
09/01/2018 - 05/31/2024 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R01NS108472-05

Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain
08/22/2018 - 05/31/2024 (Multi-PI)
PI: David A. Boas, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NIMH
5U01MH117023-05

Multispectral and Hyperspectral Preclinical Imager Spanning the Visible, NIR-I and NIR-II
09/01/2021 - 08/31/2023 (PI)
NIH/Office of the Director
1S10OD030510-01

Establishing an fNIRS Ecosystem for Open Software-Hardware Dissemination
01/01/2018 - 12/31/2022 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
5R24NS104096-04

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2023 A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy 1UG3EB034710-01
2023 Neurophotonic Advances for Mechanistic Investigation of the Role of Capillary Dysfunction in Stroke Recovery 5R01NS127156-02
2023 Evaluating the utility of fNIRS in detecting and diagnosing AD/ADRD 3U01EB029856-04S1
2023 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-04
2022 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-03
2022 The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity 5R01NS108472-05
2022 Imaging and Analysis Techniques to Construct a Cell Census Atlas of the Human Brain 5U01MH117023-05
2021 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 3U01EB029856-02S1
2021 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-02
2021 The impact of microvascular (dys)regulation on cerebral flow and oxygen heterogeneity 5R01NS108472-04 4
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  1. Liu B, Wang Y, Fomin-Thunemann N, Thunemann M, Kilic K, Devor A, Cheng X, Tan J, Jiang J, Boas DA, Tang J. Time-lagged Functional Ultrasound for Multi-parametric Cerebral Hemodynamic Imaging. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2023 Sep 13; PP.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37703138
     
  2. Giblin J, Kura S, Nunuez JLU, Zhang J, Kureli G, Jiang J, Boas DA, Chen IA. High throughput detection of capillary stalling events with Bessel beam two-photon microscopy. Neurophotonics. 2023 Jul; 10(3):035009. PMID: 37705938; PMCID: PMC10495839; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.3.035009;
     
  3. Liu B, Shah S, Küreli G, Devor A, Boas DA, Cheng X. Measurements of slow tissue dynamics with short-separation speckle contrast optical spectroscopy. Biomed Opt Express. 2023 Sep 01; 14(9):4790-4799.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37791271; PMCID: PMC10545176; DOI: 10.1364/BOE.497604;
     
  4. Kim B, Zilpelwar S, Sie EJ, Marsili F, Zimmermann B, Boas DA, Cheng X. Measuring human cerebral blood flow and brain function with fiber-based speckle contrast optical spectroscopy system. Commun Biol. 2023 Aug 14; 6(1):844. PMID: 37580382; PMCID: PMC10425329; DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05211-4;
     
  5. Butler LK, Pecukonis M, Rogers D, Boas DA, Tager-Flusberg H, Yücel MA. The Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in the Production and Comprehension of Phonologically and Semantically Related Words. Brain Sci. 2023 Jul 22; 13(7).View Related Profiles. PMID: 37509043; PMCID: PMC10377151; DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13071113;
     
  6. Pian Q, Alfadhel M, Tang J, Lee GV, Li B, Fu B, Ayata Y, Yaseen MA, Boas DA, Secomb TW, Sakadzic S. Cortical microvascular blood flow velocity mapping by combining dynamic light scattering optical coherence tomography and two-photon microscopy. J Biomed Opt. 2023 Jul; 28(7):076003. PMID: 37484973; PMCID: PMC10362155; DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.28.7.076003;
     
  7. Tucker SS, Giblin JT, Kiliç K, Chen A, Tang J, Boas DA. Optical coherence tomography-based design for a real-time motion corrected scanning microscope. Opt Lett. 2023 Jul 15; 48(14):3805-3808. PMID: 37450755
     
  8. Highton D, Boas D, Minagawa Y, Mesquita RC, Gervain J. Special Section Guest Editorial: Thirty Years of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Neurophotonics. 2023 Apr; 10(2):023501. PMID: 37425143; PMCID: PMC10323008; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.10.2.023501;
     
  9. Staehr C, Giblin JT, Gutiérrez-Jiménez E, Guldbrandsen HØ, Tang J, Sandow SL, Boas DA, Matchkov VV. Neurovascular Uncoupling Is Linked to Microcirculatory Dysfunction in Regions Outside the Ischemic Core Following Ischemic Stroke. J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 Jun 06; 12(11):e029527. PMID: 37232244; PMCID: PMC10381981; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.029527;
     
  10. Walek KW, Stefan S, Lee JH, Puttigampala P, Kim AH, Park SW, Marchand PJ, Lesage F, Liu T, Huang YA, Boas DA, Moore C, Lee J. Near-lifespan longitudinal tracking of brain microvascular morphology, topology, and flow in male mice. Nat Commun. 2023 May 24; 14(1):2982. PMID: 37221202; PMCID: PMC10205707; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38609-z;
     
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