Optical strategies for diagnosis and treatment of melanoma

Abstract

I thank my labmate fellows at UHN for the stimulating discussions and support during my internship abroad. I am particular grateful to Carl, Santa, Masood, Greg, Azusa, and Valentin. I really appreciate the time I spent with you guys. I take this opportunity to express gratitude to all my friends from the Biophotonics lab, especially the ones involved in this thesis: Clovis, Sebastião, Renan and Lili. Thanks to you all! I must thank my friends with whom I shared the "Castle" office the last years. Cintia, Mariana, Michelle, Mirian, Thereza, and Didi, I couldn't have asked for best friends. I am grateful for the funding sources that allowed me to develop this project: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel-Capes, Council of Scientif and Technological Development (CNPq)-Science Without Borders Program and 305795/2016-3, UofT-USP joint project, FAPESP (Cepof-2013/07276-1) and Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. "What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."