Welcome to the Laboratory of Dr. Joseph R. Lakowicz
in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine

The CFS is supported by the National Center for Research Resources in the National Institutes of Health, with additional support from the University of Maryland Medical School, Medical Biotechnology Center and Graduate School.
For the past 15 years the CFS by the P41 mechanism, has advanced the technology for fluorescence and its applications to the biosciences. Considerable progress has been made in the CFS and elsewhere in areas such as probe chemistry, multi-photon excitation, steady state imaging, time-resolved imaging, genetically engineered probes, and single molecule detection. The role of the CFS has typically been to develop the fundamental chemistry, instruments or analysis methods which are then applied to areas such as fluorescence sensing, genetic analysis and cellular imaging.

The staff of the CFS offers an annual week-long course on the "Principles and Applications of Time-Resolved Fluorescence". From 1992 up to 2004 the CFS course was taught exclusively in the USA. We received numerous requests to teach the course in Europe. PicoQuant GmbH is now hosting the course in Berlin.