Michael Kammer (Physics Pre-Health '12) is the first author on a July 2019 publication in the

American Chemical Society journal Combinatorial Science entitled "Compensated Interferometry 

Measures of CYFRA 21−1 Improve Diagnosis of Lung Cancer" (ACS Comb. Sci. 2019, 21, 465−472.) 



Michael earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2018 and is currently

a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.



His work explores a new optical technique to distinguish benign from malignant lung nodules 

— something that is now difficult without invasive surgery. This paves the way for a low-cost, 

noninvasive tool to decrease the rate of unnecessary surgery and speed time-to-diagnosis, 

resulting in better patient outcomes.