Group Leader Translational Optoacoustics
Prof. Dr. Miguel Pleitez
CV
Miguel A. Pleitez conducted (thanks to a full DAAD scholarship) and received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Biophysics of Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, where he created sensors for non-invasive glucose monitoring by mid-IR photoacoustic and photothermal spectroscopy. His work contributed to the foundation of DiaMonTech AG—a company translating these sensors into the diabetes clinic. Next, he moved to the Optical Imaging Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis where he contributed to the development of UV and mid-IR photoacoustic microscopy. In 2016, he joined the Chair for Biological Imaging of TU-Munich and the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging of Helmholtz Munich—creating Mid-infraRed Optoacoustic Microscopy (MiROM) for label-free live-cell metabolic monitoring. In 2021 he was appointed Assistant Professor for Translational Optoacoustics at TU-Munich. The technologies developed in his lab hold great promise for live-cell metabolic microscopy, fast analytical histology, and non-invasive sensing of metabolites.
Personal Background
Assistant Professor for Translational Optoacoustics & Group Leader “Translational Optoacoustics”
Technical University of Munich & Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
Technichal Universityof Munich, Chair of Biological Imaging, Munich Germany
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Biomedical Engeneering, Washington, USA
Postdoctoral researcher on the project \Noninvasive glucose monitoring"
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt, Germany
Ph.D. in physics
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Masters in Physics
Technical University of Munich
Bachelor in Physics
Universidad de El Salvador, El Salvador
Publications
Gasparin, F. ; Prebeck, A. ; Solda, A. ; Uluc, N. ; Glasl, S. ; Berger, C. ; Pleitez, M.A. ; Ntziachristos, V.
Differentiation of sphingomyelin and cholesterol by hyperspectral mid-infrared detection of single-bond vibrational modes in the fingerprint region.Puttfarcken, B. ; Berger, C. ; Qiu, J. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Intravital Mid-Infrared Pump and Probe Detection of Metabolites.Berger, C. ; Kim, M. ; Platz, L.I. ; Eigenberger, A. ; Prantl, L. ; Liu, P. ; Gujrati, V. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Jüstel, D. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Setting the stage for intraoperative histological quality guidance in autologous fat treatments via computed optoacoustic microscopy.Ko, V. ; Goess, M.C. ; Platz, L.I. ; Yuan, T. ; Chmyrov, A. ; Jüstel, D. ; Ruland, J. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Keppler, S.J. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Author Correction: Fast histological assessment of adipose tissue inflammation by label-free mid-infrared optoacoustic microscopy.Berger, C. ; Kim, M. ; Platz, L.I. ; Eigenberger, A. ; Prantl, L. ; Liu, P. ; Gujrati, V. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Jüstel, D. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Bayesian reconstruction of rapidly scanned mid-infrared optoacoustic signals enables fast, label-free chemical microscopy.Gasparin, F. ; Tietje, M.R. ; Katab, E. ; Nurdinova, A. ; Yuan, T. ; Chmyrov, A. ; Uluc, N. ; Jüstel, D. ; Bassermann, F. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Label-free protein-structure-sensitive live-cell microscopy for patient-specific assessment of myeloma therapy.Kim, M. ; Lee, H.R. ; Ossikovski, R. ; Jobart-Malfait, A. ; Lamarque, D. ; Novikova, T.
Digital histology of gastric tissue biopsies with liquid crystal-based Mueller microscope and machine learning approach.Uluc, N. ; Glasl, S. ; Gasparin, F. ; Yuan, T. ; He, H. ; Jüstel, D. ; Pleitez, M.A. ; Ntziachristos, V.
Non-invasive measurements of blood glucose levels by time-gating mid-infrared optoacoustic signals.Pleitez, M.A. ; Ntziachristos, V.
Blood glucose concentration measurement without finger pricking.Yuan, T. ; Riobo, L. ; Gasparin, F. ; Ntziachristos, V. ; Pleitez, M.A.
Phase-shifting optothermal microscopy enables live-cell mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging of large cell populations at high confluency.