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Improving Medical Diagnostics and Enabling Stakeholders to Access the OCT Market

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Submitting institution
The University of Kent
Unit of assessment
9 - Physics
Summary impact type
Technological
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Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014?
No
Underpinning research subjects
  • Optical Physics
  • Electrical And Electronic Engineering
  • Communications Technologies

1. Summary of the impact

2. Underpinning research

3. References to the research

4. Details of the impact

5. Sources to corroborate the impact

Additional contextual information

Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
Wellcome Trust - Grant number not available £244,000
European Commission Grant agreement ID: 860807 Grant ( €4.3milllion ) £3,708,750
BB/S016643/1 £446,080
European Research Council Grant agreement ID: 754695 £125,000
BRC3_022 £178,529
Royal Society WM1410019 £35,000
Technical University of Denmark grant: 4107-00011A £18,000
European Commission FP7-607627 (€1,466,617) £1,264,957
European Research Council Grant agreement ID: 680879 (€150,000) £129,375
Innovate UK 101678/32696-234177 £175,262
BRC2_014 £133,000
European Research Council Grant agreement ID 249889 (€1,999,241) £1,724,345
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
  • Germany
  • Denmark
  • Finland
Formal partners
  • King’s College London
  • University of Luebeck
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Tampere University
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Superlum Ireland
  • Innolume Germany
  • NKT Denmark
  • University College London
  • NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Northwick Park Hospital London,
  • Denmark Technical University
  • Institute of Opthalmology
  • Optos Plc Scotland
  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
  • University of Strathclyde
Funding programmes
  • Multi-user equipment grants
  • H2020-EU.1.3.1. - Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of researchers
  • MSCA-ITN-2019 - Innovative Training Networks
  • BBSRC Standard research
  • ERC Proof of concept
  • Biomedical research centre call
  • ERC-AG-LS7 - ERC Advanced Grant - Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health
Global research identifiers
  • grid.52788.30
  • grid.270680.b
  • grid.418100.c
  • grid.452896.4
  • grid.485385.7
  • grid.421649.c
  • grid.5170.3
  • grid.451056.3
Name of funders
  • Wellcome Trust
  • European Comission
  • BBSRC
  • European Research Council
  • NIHR (BRC)
  • Royal Society
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Innovate UK
Researcher ORCIDs
  • 0000-0002-4899-9656
  • 0000-0002-6890-1599
  • 0000-0002-5695-2591