Darren Roblyer

Darren Roblyer is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.

He received his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and received his PhD in Bioengineering at Rice University where he studied under Rebecca Richards-Kortum. He did his postdoctoral work at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine studying under Professor Bruce Tromberg, the current Director of the NIBIB.

His research focuses on translational diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy. His group develops wearables, remote patient monitoring technologies, and custom frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy techniques for label-free measurements of deep tissue metabolism and molecular composition. He collaborates with physicians, physiologists, biologists, engineers, and physicists to tackle unmet clinical needs in biomedicine.

He has clinical studies underway in cancer, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and autoimmune disease. He was the recipient of the Department of Defense Era of Hope Scholar Award and the NIH Trailblazer Award among many others. He is also the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE journal Biophotonics Discovery.