Solutions to unmet medical needs: advances in Biophotonics

To better understand, treat or even cure diseases, an urging demand for new clinical methods providing a differential diagnosis and allow for accurate and early treatment exits. In the past few years, biophotonics has witnessed the development of methods and technologies that are potentially in a position to meet these aforementioned challenges. In this regard, spectroscopic methods like fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy are particularly noteworthy. Here, we will summarize our latest achievements towards the development and application of photonic in particular spectroscopic approaches according to unmet medical needs of pathology, oncology, and infection/sepsis. Acknowledgements: Financial support of the EU, the ”Thüringer Kultusministerium”, the ”Thüringer Aufbaubank”, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF), the German Science Foundation, the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and the Carl-Zeiss Foundation are greatly acknowledged.