Michael R Hamblin Ph.D. was an Associate Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, and is now a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.His research interests include photodynamic therapy, photobiomodulation, drug delivery, nanomedicine, and tissue engineering. He has over 840 peer-reviewed articles and 10 patents.

He is Editor-in-Chief of “Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine and Laser Surgery”. He has an h-factor 166 and > 116,000 citations. Honors include Fellow of SPIE, 1 st NAALT Endre Mester Lifetime Achievement Award, Dose Response Society Outstanding Career Award, 1 st WALT Ali Javan award, and European Medical Laser Association Lifetime Achievement Award.