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Two decades ago, in the beginning of 2002, we decided to organize a graduate school in the field of biophotonics and biomedical optics. The purpose of the International Graduate Summer School Biophotonics is to provide education at the highest international level for postgraduate students and early career stage researchers. The school always experienced higher interest than the number of students we can accommodate, illustrating the needs it continues to fill in the field. Apart from learning from renowned lecturers and scientists, the international atmosphere in having about 80 biophotonics scientists from across the world for a week in a confined space, on the beautiful Island of Ven, makes networking opportunities phenomenally good. The school certainly has the potential to create lifelong friendships, and to help advance the field by exchange of ideas. We collaborate with the Journal of Biomedical Optics on publishing a special section (Selected Topics in Biophotonics) containing invited review papers from lecturers at the school and contributed papers from students at the school, respectively. They have been compiled into open access online teaching material.
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