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




Graduate Training at the Interface of Neuroscience, Optical Engineering and Data Science
07/08/2024 - 06/30/2029 (Multi-PI)
PI: David A. Boas, PhD
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
1T32NS136080-01

Low-cost high-performance NIRS-SCOS device for non-invasive monitoring of cerebral blood flow and intracranial pressure in traumatic brain injury
06/01/2024 - 05/31/2029 (Subcontract PI)
The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NINDS
1R01NS135081-01A1

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
5R01NS126596-03

BRAIN CONNECTS: Mapping Connectivity of the Human Brainstem in a Nuclear Coordinate System
09/01/2023 - 08/31/2026 (Subcontract PI)
The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital NIH NINDS
1U01NS132181-01

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
5UG3EB034710-02

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
5U01EB029856-05

A Field-Deployable Magnetic Resonance Imaging Rhizotron for Modeling and Enhancing Root Growth and Biogeochemical Function
05/29/2023 - 06/30/2024 (Subcontract PI)
The General Hospital Corporation d/b/a Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Energy
DE-AR0000823

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
5U01EB028660-05

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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2024 Expanding Inclusion of All Subjects for Ultra-High Density Wearable fNIRS in the Everyday World 1UG3EB036035-01
2024 Graduate Training at the Interface of Neuroscience, Optical Engineering and Data Science 1T32NS136080-01
2024 A transformative method for functional brain imaging with Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy 5UG3EB034710-02
2024 Neurophotonic Advances for Mechanistic Investigation of the Role of Capillary Dysfunction in Stroke Recovery 5R01NS127156-03
2024 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-05
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 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-04
2023 Evaluating the utility of fNIRS in detecting and diagnosing AD/ADRD 3U01EB029856-04S1
2022 The Neuroscience of Everyday World- A novel wearable system for continuous measurement of brain function 5U01EB029856-03
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  1. Yücel MA, Anderson JE, Rogers D, Hajirahimi P, Farzam P, Gao Y, Kaplan RI, Braun EJ, Mukadam N, Duwadi S, Carlton L, Beeler D, Butler LK, Carpenter E, Girnis J, Wilson J, Tripathi V, Zhang Y, Sorger B, von Lühmann A, Somers DC, Cronin-Golomb A, Kiran S, Ellis TD, Boas DA. Quantifying the Impact of Hair and Skin Characteristics on Signal Quality with Practical Recommendations for Improvement. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 28.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39554177; PMCID: PMC11565806; DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.28.620644;
     
  2. Adewumi HO, Simkulet MG, Küreli G, Giblin JT, Lopez AB, Erdener SE, Jiang J, Boas DA, O'Shea TM. Optical coherence tomography enables longitudinal evaluation of cell graft-directed remodeling in stroke lesions. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 12. PMID: 39416121; PMCID: PMC11482790; DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.09.617387;
     
  3. O'Brien WJ, Carlton L, Muhvich J, Kura S, Ortega-Martinez A, Dubb J, Duwadi S, Hazen E, Yücel MA, von Lühmann A, Boas DA, Zimmermann BB. ninjaNIRS: an open hardware solution for wearable whole-head high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Biomed Opt Express. 2024 Oct 01; 15(10):5625-5644. PMID: 39421779; PMCID: PMC11482177; DOI: 10.1364/BOE.531501;
     
  4. von Lühmann A, Kura S, Joseph O'Brien W, Zimmermann BB, Duwadi S, Rogers D, Anderson JE, Farzam P, Snow C, Chen A, Yücel MA, Perkins N, Boas DA. ninjaCap: a fully customizable and 3D printable headgear for functional near-infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalography brain imaging. Neurophotonics. 2024 Jul; 11(3):036601. PMID: 39193445; PMCID: PMC11348010; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.11.3.036601;
     
  5. Gutiérrez-Jiménez E, Rasmussen PM, Mikkelsen IK, Kura S, Fruekilde SK, Hansen B, Bordoni L, Carlsen J, Palmfeldt J, Boas DA, Sakadžic S, Vinogradov SA, El Khatib M, Ramos-Cejudo J, Wied B, Leduc-Galindo D, Canepa E, Mar AC, Gamallo-Lana B, Fossati S, Østergaard L. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors prevent presymptomatic capillary flow disturbances in a model of cerebral amyloidosis. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 22. PMID: 39229198; PMCID: PMC11370441; DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.22.609091;
     
  6. Doran PR, Fomin-Thunemann N, Tang RP, Balog D, Zimmerman B, Kiliç K, Martin EA, Kura S, Fisher HP, Chabbott G, Herbert J, Rauscher BC, Jiang JX, Sakadzic S, Boas DA, Devor A, Chen IA, Thunemann M. Widefield in vivo imaging system with two fluorescence and two reflectance channels, a single sCMOS detector, and shielded illumination. Neurophotonics. 2024 Jul; 11(3):034310.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38881627; PMCID: PMC11177117; DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.11.3.034310;
     
  7. Pecukonis M, Gerson J, Gustafson-Alm H, Wood M, Yücel M, Boas D, Tager-Flusberg H. The Neural Bases of Language Processing During Social and Non-Social Contexts: A fNIRS Study of Autistic and Neurotypical Preschool-Aged Children. Res Sq. 2024 Jun 06.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38883761; PMCID: PMC11177967; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4450882/v1;
     
  8. Cheng TY, Kim B, Zimmermann BB, Robinson MB, Renna M, Carp SA, Franceschini MA, Boas DA, Cheng X. Choosing a camera and optimizing system parameters for speckle contrast optical spectroscopy. Sci Rep. 2024 May 24; 14(1):11915. PMID: 38789499; PMCID: PMC11126420; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62106-y;
     
  9. von Lühmann A, Kura S, O'Brien WJ, Zimmermann BB, Duwadi S, Rogers D, Anderson JE, Farzam P, Snow C, Chen A, Yücel MA, Perkins N, Boas DA. ninjaCap: A fully customizable and 3D printable headgear for fNIRS and EEG brain imaging. bioRxiv. 2024 May 16. PMID: 38798389; PMCID: PMC11118375; DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.14.594159;
     
  10. Cheng S, Chang S, Li Y, Novoseltseva A, Lin S, Wu Y, Zhu J, McKee AC, Rosene DL, Wang H, Bigio IJ, Boas DA, Tian L. Enhanced Multiscale Human Brain Imaging by Semi-supervised Digital Staining and Serial Sectioning Optical Coherence Tomography. Res Sq. 2024 Mar 21.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38562721; PMCID: PMC10984089; DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4014687/v1;
     
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Bar chart showing 387 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 23 publications in 2009

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