Ammasi Periasamy
Ammasi Periasamy is an Indian American biophysicist and a professor at the University of Virginia. He studies light microscopy and molecular imaging of living cells.
He has helped create advanced imaging tools such as confocal and multi-photon microscopes, and he pioneered fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) and the related FLIRR technique. Born in India, he studied at the University of Madras and the Indian Institutes of Technology, earned his PhD in 1984, and did a postdoctoral stint at the University of Washington. He founded the W. M. Keck Centre for Cellular Imaging. His research focuses on visualizing living cells, understanding protein interactions, and tracking physical properties in cancer cells.
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