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Tissue optics and photonics is a field of research and development that studies propagation and interaction of light with scattering and absorbing media such as biological tissues. This is the basis for the application of optical methods to medical imaging, diagnosis, and therapy. It encompasses modeling of light transport in tissues, measurement of tissue optical transport parameters, and development of models that can explain the optical properties of tissue and their dependence on the number, size, and arrangement of the tissue compartments, such as collagen fibers, cell organelles, endogenous and exogenous chromophores and fluorophores. Light-tissue interaction phenomena related to photothermal, photomechanical, and photochemical effects underlie biophotonics technologies and techniques, such as tissue ablation, hyperthermia, coagulation, laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT), photochemical and photodynamic therapy. And after many years of development and outstanding achievements, the relevance and interest to tissue optics as a science and technology are still growing. The present conference focuses on the increasing attention payed by the researchers to study tissue optics in a broad wavelength range from deep UV to terahertz, to build robust models accounting for polarization anisotropy of normal and pathological tissues, to design protocols for tissue optical properties control and enhancement of light penetration depth, to understand mechanisms of tissue elasticity, to study nonlinear optics of tis- sues as a new field of research and biomedical applications, to design novel dynamic tissue phantoms and to develop many other areas of tissues optics and photonics listed below. The conference will focus both on diagnosis and sensing tools as well as treatment modalities. It will include both theoretical understanding of the biophysical principles as well as present recent practical empirical achievements.