{"321691":{"#nid":"321691","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Chemical Biology Special Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0022Can Smart Phones Prevent Metastatic Retinoblastoma in Children?\u0022 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBryan Shaw, PhD\u003Cbr \/\u003EBaylor University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis seminar will describe our ongoing efforts to use digital photography to improve the detection and diagnosis of retinoblastoma (Rb). Retinoblastoma is an intra-ocular cancer that afflicts 8,000 children every year and kills 4,000 children (worldwide). Approximately 90 % of deaths occur in resource-limited settings due to late diagnosis at the metastatic stage. Retinoblastoma is usually not fatal if it is diagnosed before metastasis to the brain. The cardinal symptom of retinoblastoma is the appearance of an abnormal white pupillary reflex (leukocoria), including the appearance of \u201cwhite eye\u201d during flash photography. Parents of children with Rb have demonstrated (anecdotally) that digital photography can be an effective tool to detect leukocoria and initiate the diagnosis of retinoblastoma. Digital photography has, however, not been formally scrutinized or harnessed to improve the screening, detection, and assessment of retinoblastoma. This seminar will show that leukocoria\u2014as detected by a parent with a consumer-based digital camera\u2014can be a symptom of retinoblastoma in its earliest stages. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of a software application that we have created for the iPhone and iPad. The application can detect leukocoria in pictures that are stored anywhere on the device, or can detect leukocoria in real time, thus helping to ensure that this potentially serious symptom never goes overlooked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information, please see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/05\/06\/309003098\/chemist-turns-software-developer-after-sons-cancer-diagnosis\u0022\u003EAbdolvahabi et al. \u003Cem\u003EPLOS ONE\u003C\/em\u003E 2013; 8(10):e76677\u003C\/a\u003E, or visit:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChemical Biology Special Seminar -\u0026nbsp;\u0022Can Smart Phones Prevent Metastatic Retinoblastoma in Children?\u0022 - Bryan Shaw, PhD - Baylor University\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Can Smart Phones Prevent Metastatic Retinoblastoma in Children?\u0022 - Bryan Shaw, PhD - Baylor University"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2014-09-04 12:43:15","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:21:51","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-09-15T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-09-15T18:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-09-15T18:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-09-15 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-09-15 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-09-15 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.shawlaboratory.com\/","title":"Shaw lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/05\/06\/309003098\/chemist-turns-software-developer-after-sons-cancer-diagnosis","title":"PLOS One publication"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/05\/06\/309003098\/chemist-turns-software-developer-after-sons-cancer-diagnosis\u0022\u003EMG Finn, PhD\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}