Bryan Shaw (chemist)

Bryan F. Shaw (born August 20, 1976) is an American biochemist at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is best known for developing free software for smartphones that can detect eye cancer (retinoblastoma) in children by searching the child's picture for "white eye" (leukocoria). Shaw developed this software after his wife detected "white eye" in pictures of their own son, who was later diagnosed with retinoblastoma. Shaw is an advocate for parent-based, photographic screening of pediatric eye diseases that present with "white-eye". Shaw grew up in Spokane, Washington and received his Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.