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The results of the NEUROPA research project have been published on the CORDIS website in six languages. The technology holds promise for theranostics in brain disorder patients, with potential long-term improvements in clinical outcomes. NEUROPA’s approach signifies a significant step forward in addressing the complexities of brain disorders with a focus on precision and non-invasiveness.

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.

Our group presented works at two big conferences SPIE European Conferences on Biomedical Optics and CLEO/Europe-EQEC 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!

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

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

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.