Professor Edik Rafailov (Coordinator) and Dr Sergei Sokolovski have won a highly prestigious award from the Horizon Europe Pathfinder Scheme. The Proposal, GlioLighT attracting €3.23 million, with €866k going to the Aston team. The GlioLighT consortium has assembled to develop a conceptually novel non-invasive glioma treatment approach. GlioLighT proposes a novel alternative form of targeted ROS generation: Direct Light Therapy (DLT). DLT uses 1267nm light to generate 1O2 species in glioma cells without dependency on a photosensitisers (PS). The removal of PS will revolutionise glioma treatment, enabling novel treatment modalities to vastly improve efficacy, and earlier intervention options, all at reduced cost and complexity.
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SPIE ECBO and CLEO
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Our group presented works at two big conferences SPIE European Conferences on Biomedical Optics and CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023.
AiPT Open Labs
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Congratulations to Arooj Khalid and Diana Galiakhmetova who became runner-up and winner of the PhD Poster Competition at the AiPT Open Labs event!
Open Research Award 2023 and Aston Three Minute Thesis Competition
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Congratulation to Diana Galiakhmetova as the winner of the Open Research Study 2023 and the winner of the Three Minute Competition!
The Open Research Award judging panel were impressed with the winning case studies, which promoted best Open Research practice across different disciplines, and articulated the motivations and barriers faced.
Also, Diana became a winner of the Three Minute Thesis Competition at Aston University and will present our group, AiPT, EPS, Aston University at the national level.
https://www.aston.ac.uk/graduate-school/three-minute-thesis
BiOS Student 3-Minute Poster Presentations
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Congratulations to Diana Galiakhmetova, the winner of the SPIE BiOS 3-minute poster presentations 2023.
Diana Presented her work "Linear and nonlinear photoconversion of monomeric and dimeric DrBphP bacterial phytochrome variants" and won first place in the conference Photonics West 2023, San Francisco, USA.
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/bios-3mp?SSO=1
EPSRC grant
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Prof. Edik Rafailov (AIPT) has been awarded a prestigious 3 and half year EPSRC grant worth £957k. This is collaborative work with UCL (Aston part is over £700k). The main target of the project is to develop the clear and simple diagnostic tools for structural brain recognition and investigate the THz radiation treatment properties on bio-materials.
Edik Rafailov will host two MSC fellows, with projects focused on: (i) multimodal hyperspectral system for imaging of biological tissue, and (ii) mid-infrared laser system for high-throughput bio-printing.
Published on Jul 7, 2023
4 year H2020 grant
Published on Jul 7, 2023
Prof. Edik Rafailov (AIPT) as a partner of a large consortium has been awarded a prestigious 4 year H2020 grant worth €5.2M. This is collaborative work with 12 partners (Aston part over €610k). The main target of the project is to develop a world record power 2.5kW laser providing from picosecond down to femtoseconds pulses at repetition rates up to 1GHz with excellent beam quality and brought to the market at highly competitive costs enabling widespread industrial uptake.