Season 2, Episode 16 - Gideon Ho, PhD - The World’s First Fully Automated, Quantitative, Stain-Free Imaging System.

Imagine a world without staining… in the excitement of digital pathology we often forget that we're using with a legacy system of staining tissue pink and purple, which is time-consuming and tissue-destructive. There's got to be a better way. Our guest is Dr. Gideon Ho, who co-founded HistoIndex to develop and commercialize the world’s first fully automated, quantitative, stain-free imaging system. Under his direction as the CEO, the laser-based stain-free imaging system has been successfully implemented in academic, clinical and commercial research centers in major universities, hospitals and research facilities around the world. Dr. Ho has multiple patents and journal publications in medical imaging, lasers and optics to his credit. We’re going to discuss the promise of Stain-free digital pathology and the technologies developed at Histoindex. What is multiphoton technology? What is second harmonic generation (SHG)? The clinical applications Histoindex is focusing on first is NASH – nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. What is NASH? what is the unmet need? How does it affect society. What are the diagnostic challenges?