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EPSRC Support by Research Area (Optical Devices and Subsystems) in Theme (Healthcare Technologies)

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. The number and value of grants listed below reflects how the theme portfolio is described by this research area.

Please note: some research areas will appear under multiple themes. There is no unique, absolute, relationship between a research area and a theme.

Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
Ceramic SHaping: extrusion of glAss Preforms for new fibres in hEalthcare (SHAPE)Seddon, Professor ABUniversity of NottinghamFaculty of Engineering 770,396
Combining the Strengths of Mid-IR and Raman Spectroscopies on Single Chip for Rapid Bedside Biomarker DiagnosticsGanapathy, Professor SUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 805,209
Lighting the Way to a Healthy Nation - Optical 'X-rays' for Walk Through Diagnosis & TherapyBradley, Professor MQueen Mary University of LondonPrecision Healthcare University Research 2,847,779
Polarization-sensitive OCT as an early predictor of spontaneous pre-term birth.Matcher, Professor SUniversity of SheffieldElectronic and Electrical Engineering 841,156
U-care: Deep ultraviolet light therapiesThomson, Professor RRHeriot-Watt UniversitySch of Engineering and Physical Science 6,132,366

Total Number of Grants: 5
Total Value of Grants: £11,396,906

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).