Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dr. Sherri McFarland, from The University of North Carolina - Greensboro, will be presenting a seminar titled, "Adventures in Photomedicine: Using Light-Mediated Processes to Improve Health and Treat Disease". Photomedicine is an interdisciplinary field where chemistry and light meet to fight disease. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a special branch of photomedicine that employs a sensitizer molecule, light, and oxygen to destroy target cells with spatiotemporal selectivity. Despite its enormous potential for treating certain diseases, including cancer and infection, PDT has [...]