Tiina Karu

 

Professor Tiina I. Karu is the Head of the Laboratory of Laser Biology and Medicine at the Institute of Laser and Information (formerly-Laser Technology Research Center) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She obtained her PhD (Candidate of Science in Photochemistry) in 1974 and her Doctor of Science in Biophysics in 1990 at St. Petersburg, Russia.  She has been actively doing research in photochemistry, photobiology, photo physics and laser biology.  She authored more than 300 publications as well as two books; “Photobiology of Low Power Laser Therapy”, Harwood Acad. Publications 1989, and “The Science of Low Power Laser Therapy”, Gordon and Breach, 1998”. Her extensive experience and research in the field led her to become internationally acknowledge as the leading researcher into the cellular effects of laser irradiation.