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RCUK Science Bridges Awards Announced

The four newly announced projects that MIMIT has awarded RCUK Science Bridges grants to are as follows:

Reducing ventilator-associated lung injury through the development of continuous non-invasive image guidance at the bedside

Principal Investigators: William Lionheart, Professor of Applied Mathematics (University of Manchester) and Gerhard Wolf, Associate in Critical Care Medicine (Children's Hospital, Boston).

Using PET and diffusion weighted MRI in the OR to facilitate glioma tumour management

Principal Investigators: Karl Herholz, Director of the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre and Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, and Ron Kikinis, Professor of Radiology (Harvard Medical School).

Objective voice quality analysis by spectrogram entropy

Principal Investigators: Robert Hillman, Co-Director & Research Director (Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation) and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Jarrod Homer, Consultant Otolaryngologist and ENT Surgeon (Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Manchester's Christie Hospital).

Making an 'IMPACT' (Integrated Measuring Platform for identifying and testing Anti-Cancer Therapeutics) on pediatric cancers

Principal Investigators: Guy Makin, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Pediatric Oncology (University of Manchester), and Muhammad Zaman, Assistant Professor (Dept. Biomedical Engineering and Dept. of Medicine, Boston University).