Professor Edik Rafailov as a PI and partner of a large consortium has been awarded a prestigious 4 year H2020 grant AMPLITUDE worth €4.7M. This is collaborative work with 11 partners (Aston part worth over €620k). The main target of the project is to develop a new concept of label-free, multi-modal microscopy and endoscopic imaging operating in the new wavelength region with multiple imaging and spectroscopic technologies, including NIR confocal reflectance microscopy, multi-photon microscopy and spontaneous Raman spectroscopy.