Dmitry
Dmitri Olegovich Lapotko was born on September 25, 1963. He is Belarusian and has maintained professional ties to Minsk, where much of his early scientific work was conducted at the A. V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute and Belarus State University. His documented family relations include his father, Oleg, and his mother, Yulia.
Lapotko studied physics at Belarus State University, earning a Master of Science in physics. He subsequently completed doctoral research in laser-defense applications and later obtained a Doctor of Science degree in bioengineering associated with the A. V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute. His education connected thermal physics, laser science, optical measurement, and biomedical engineering, fields that became central to his research career.
Lapotko began his professional scientific career in Belarusian physics and laser research. From 1983 to 1991 he was a member of the national sailing team of the Belarussian Sailing Federation while pursuing his scientific development. From 1988 to 1991 he worked as an assistant professor at Belarus State University. Between 1991 and 2000 he served as chief of a research laboratory at the A. V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute in Minsk, where his research included laser methods for studying cells, thermal physics, and photothermal measurement. Since the 1990s, his work has increasingly focused on photothermal microscopy and cytometry, laser-induced bubbles, optical detection of nanoparticles, and biomedical applications of pulsed-laser energy. In 2002 he worked as a consultant with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, collaborating on laser-based cellular diagnostics and therapeutic technologies. His research contributed to the development of photothermal microscopes, laser-activated bubble cytometry, laser-activated nanothermolysis, and plasmonic nanobubbles for the detection and selective destruction of abnormal cells. In the 2020s he became associated with Scorpido Photonics, Inc., a California photonics company, where he serves as chief executive officer and director and leads research and development aimed at rapid, minimally invasive cancer diagnostics and therapies.
Developed photothermal microscopy and photothermal cytometry methods for optical examination and monitoring of individual living cells.
Invented and co-developed a photothermal laser microscope and flow-cytometric methods for detecting thermal responses, nanoparticles, and laser-induced changes in single cells.
Developed laser-activated nanothermolysis and plasmonic-nanobubble technologies for selective detection, diagnosis, and destruction of abnormal and tumor cells.
Co-invented the method and device for photothermal examination of microinhomogeneities, applicable to optical materials and biological samples.
(Co-authored work on selective destruction of leukemia cel...)
2008(Co-authored study presenting fiber-optical generation and...)
2026(Research article investigating the generation, optical de...)
2009(Co-authored study evaluating the spectral dependence of l...)
2005(Review article describing photothermal vapor bubbles gene...)
2009(Co-authored Nature Medicine study on using cancer-specifi...)
2014(Research article by Dmitri Lapotko describing phototherma...)
2004(United States patent co-invented by Dmitri Olegovich Lapo...)
2007Lapotko represented Belarus as a member of the national sailing team of the Belarussian Sailing Federation from 1983 to 1991. His scientific career also involved sustained collaboration with biomedical-optics researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and with researchers at the A. V. Lykov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute.
Lapotko's documented family relations include his father, Oleg, and his mother, Yulia. His professional collaborations have included work with Vladimir P. Zharov and other researchers in photothermal microscopy, laser cytometry, plasmonic nanobubbles, and biomedical optics.
