Jennifer Kehlet Barton is an American biomedical engineer who is Director of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona.
Barton earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
She eventually returned to academia, moving to the University of Texas at Austin to research biomedical engineering for a doctoral degree.
[2] She has investigated a variety of imaging techniques for diagnosing and treating cancer, including optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy.
[3] Barton has developed miniature, integrated endoscopes that combine both imaging modalities, with a particular focus on identifying the biomarkers that underpin ovarian cancer.