We are honored to have an interview with Prof. Michael Bouvet, the director of Endocrine Surgery and co-director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit at UC San Diego Health. As one of the planning committee for the 4th International Congress of Fluorescence Guided Surgery: achievements and future directions of fluorescence guided imaging in surgery. Prof. Bouvet gave an excellent presentation on the topic “Cancer Specific Imaging with Novel Fluorescence Probes”.