Institute of Fluorescence

Featured Article: Plasmonic Engineering of Singlet Oxygen Generation, Yongxia Zhang, Kadir Aslan, Michael Previte and Chris D. Geddes*, PNAS, 105 (6), 1798-1802, 2008. (October 16th): Professor Geddes receives the Innovator of the year award in Baltimore. News: The IoF's Ultra Fast and Sensitive Bioagent sensing platform was recently featured on WJZ Channel 13 news, see press section. News: IoF Hightlighted in the Daily Records' Biotech Report, February 2009, see press section.

 

Welcome, to the Institute of Fluorescence (IoF) Home Page.

The IoF was founded in 2001 by Dr. Chris D. Geddes, Professor and Director.
Since that time, the IoF has rapidly become one of the most prominent academic institutes' for fluorescence and its applications world-wide. 

The IoF is proud to be the home and distributor of the majority of the fluorescence peer-reviewed literature, including: The Journal of Fluorescence; Plasmonics  (Journal); The Who’s Who in Fluorescence Annual Volume; The Annual Reviews in Fluorescence Series; and Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy Series.  In addition, the Society of Fluorescence is also administered by the IoF.

The Research and Intellectual Property portfolio at the IoF is also expansive, with combined research and collaborative programs totaling many millions of dollars in the last few years.  Research at the Institute of Fluorescence is concerned with the development of new leading-edge and existing fluorescence and plasmonic based phenomenon for resolving clinically, biologically and industrially important questions, as well as addressing areas of immense national and international importance. These include the development of clinical devices for health care safeguard and continuous monitoring, the development of technologies to facilitate the early and rapid detection of bio-warfare agents; as well as developing fundamental scientific principles / theories, which are themselves likely to find a global impact and use.

Under the leadership of Dr. Chris D. Geddes, the IoF has earned a well-deserved international reputation for its advances in Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Plasmonics.  Approaches and concepts both developed and discovered by the group, such as Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence (MEF), Metal-Enhanced Chemiluminescence (MEC), Surface-Plasmon Coupled Phenomenon and the glucose-sensing contact lens, are both well-recognized, highly cited and currently used in laboratories around the world today.

 

The Institute of Fluorescence is an independent department within the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI).