Email: gibbss@ohsu.edu
Phone: 503 494-8940
Fax: 503 418-9311
Website: www.ohsu.edu/gibbs

Current Appointment:
Associate Professor

Lab Location
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Robertson Life Sciences Building
Oregon Health & Science University
2730 S.W. Moody Avenue, Rooms 3N074 & 4N096
Portland, OR 97201

Mailing Address
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Robertson Life Sciences Building
Oregon Health & Science University
Mail Code CL3SG
2730 S.W. Moody Avenue
Portland, OR 97201

Education
B.S., Biochemistry, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA, 2003
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2010

Research Area
OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine

Biography
Summer received her B.S. summa cum laude in Biochemistry from Whitworth College, Spokane, WA, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Summer’s graduate studies focused on noninvasive fluorescence technologies and tissue light transport for brain cancer detection and cancer therapy monitoring.

As a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. John Frangioni at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Summer developed near-infrared nerve-specific fluorescent contrast agents, derivatized and screened the fluorescent compounds ex vivo and in vivo for nerve specificity and performance for use in image-guided surgery.