About Us

Eleuthra Photonics was founded in 2023. It was admitted to the I-Start program at Enterpriseworks, the incubator of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Eleuthra Photonics specializes in developing and producing rapid image-based diagnostic tools for analyzing tissue and cell samples, with a primary focus on cancer and other disease diagnoses.

Kayvan Forouhesh Tehrani, Ph.D.

Founder and CEO

Dr. Tehrani is an experienced biophotonics engineer specializing in microscopy and bioimaging.

Stephen A. Boppart, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Medical Advisor

Stephen A. Boppart is a professor and a prominent scientist at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.