Principal Investigator

William Simon, Ph.D. University of Rochester work Box 712 601 Elmwood Ave Rochester NY 14642 office: MC 1-6830 p 585-275-3034 f 585-275-6007 william_simon@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation

Biochemistry & Biophysics

Optical Pattern Recognition Applied to Biological Problems

View of scribed red blood cells through an optical microscope

Current interest is image processing applied to medical and biological data and application of information handling techniques to medical education. Prior areas of interest have been emission and transmission tomography and ultrasound. Collaborative work has included epidemiology of cancer due to radiation exposure and smoking, sodium and potassium transport and metabolic models of cell differentiation.

RATTRACKER CLIP

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics B&B

Recent Publications

1. Simon W
(2013 Jun 01). Letter to the Editor: The RO1 grant bottleneck. Blood Cells Mol Dis. 51, 1-2.
1. Segel GB
2. Simon W
3. Lichtman MA
(2011 Jul 15). Should we still be focused on red cell hemoglobin F as the principal explanation for the salutary effect of hydroxyurea in sickle cell disease? Pediatr Blood Cancer. 57, 8-9.
1. Simon W
(2009 Mar 17). Should Aspirin be Discontinued at Age 80? Annals of Internal Medicine.

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