BRICS Workshop on Biophotonics - 2024 will be held in Hybrid mode both online and offline, on 03-05, Oct. 2024, and is intended to bring together scientists, engineers and clinical researchers from the BRICS countries of various fields of science involved in the application of optics, photonics and imaging technologies to solve urgent problems of biology and medicine. The scope of this Forum ranges from basic research to instrumentation, preclinical and clinical research, mainly in those areas where researchers from the BRICS countries are world leaders. The topics are extensive and will cover (but are not limited to) the following:

• Optical Interactions in Tissue and Cells
• Optical Tweezers
• Biomedical Spectroscopy
• Advanced Optical Techniques for Clinical Medicine
• Microscopy and Imaging
• Multimodal Biomedical Imaging
• Nano/Biophotonics
• Photonic Therapeutics, Diagnostics and Instrumentations
• Tissue Optical Clearing and Drug Delivery
• Antimicrobial and Antivirus Phototherapies

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata, India
• Science Medical Centre, International Research-Educational Centre of Optical Technologies for Industry and Medicine “Photonics”, Institute of Physics, Saratov State University (SSU), Saratov, Russia
• Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
• Russian Society for Photobiology, Russia
• Skolkovo Institute of Science & Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Moscow, Russia
• Hainan University, China
• Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
• Biomedical Photonics Committee of Chinese Optical Society
• National Institute of Science and Technology of Optics and Photonics (INOF), University of São Paulo, Brazil
• University of Johannesburg, the Republic of South Africa (RSA)
• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• SPIE Student Chapters of the above institutions
• OSA Student Chapter of the above institutions