| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S96432/01 |
| Title: |
BIOPLATFORM: Bio-Photonics Research (Platform Grant) |
| Principal Investigator: |
Bennion, Professor I |
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| Department: |
Sch of Engineering and Applied Science |
| Organisation: |
Aston University |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 2004 |
Ends: |
31 May 2008 |
Value (£): |
421,592
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Development (Biosciences) |
Medical science & disease |
| Optical Devices & Subsystems |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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This programme seeks to advance and apply state-of-art photonic device and systems technologies to a spectrum of activities in biological science and medicine, with the purpose of creating a number of new diagnostic and therapeutic aids for medicine and surgery, and contributing novel investigative tools to advance understanding of cell behaviour. It proposes to conceive and deploy advanced optical fibre and planar waveguide components and techniques, using established and new materials and fabrication processes, to address areas of need in respiratory medicine, cancer therapies, cardiology, orthopaedics, andrology, ophthalmology, and other areas of human biomedicine. By close multidisciplinary collaborations, the programme aims to utilise powerful photonic sensing and measurement concepts to serve the development of new biocompatible materials and investigate the properties and motions of living cells, as an aid to tissue engineering. Many aspects of the programme take advantage of the biologically innocuous nature of optical fibres to target in-vivo applications, as microsurgical or therapeutic tools; ultimate goals in this direction reside in the realisation of optically activated actuators, in concert with new biomaterials, with numerous potential prosthetic applications. The specific purpose of this Platform programme is to provide a core for this wide range of activities, through which a coordinated approach to the essential photonics developments may be maintained.
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http://www.aston.ac.uk |