Welcome to Holomic LLC

Holomic LLC is dedicated to the proposition that microscopes should be small and light enough to be used wherever you need them, in the lab or in the field.  Portable, inexpensive, and high quality microscopes will find widespread applications in

• Scientific Research (cytometry, high throughput imaging, rare cell search)
• Point-of-Care Diagnostics (blood analysis, HIV monitoring)
• Diagnostics for Global Health (sickle cell anemia, malaria)
• Pathology labs (hematopathology, histopathology)
• Telemedicine and mobile health
• Water quality testing

All this is made possible by LUCAS technology (Lensfree Ultra wide-field Cell Monitoring Array Platform based on Shadow Imaging).  Invented by Professor Aydogan Ozcan at UCLA and his research group, it is based on a brilliant insight that light passing through translucent objects like biological samples interferes with itself and creates a hologram which can be used to mathematically reconstruct the microscopic image of the object- without any lenses. The result: an inexpensive, small, and robust portable microscope that can be used anywhere. Several early prototypes and videos about the technology are shown on this page. Holomic LLC is a spinoff from UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, with offices in nearby Westwood, Los Angeles, and a laboratory on UCLA campus in the California Nanosystems Institute’s Incubator. Our mission is to commercialize LUCAS and other advanced photonics to benefit societies in the US and other developed countries as well as resource-limited countries globally.   The company is currently in the development stage; first product releases are planned for late 2012.